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<blockquote data-quote="Brandonm22" data-source="post: 713754" data-attributes="member: 7645"><p>The University of Guelph has been working on this for years and years. Lee Leachman uses a customized version of Guelph's cross breed EPD system to assign cross breed EPDs to their various breeds and composites.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://cgil.uoguelph.ca/pub/" target="_blank">http://cgil.uoguelph.ca/pub/</a></p><p></p><p>The research is there. The problem would be implementing a cross breeds EPD system. Assigning Cross Breed EPDs to cattle of all breeds and multi-breeds would be stepping on a lot of breed association toes......toes that are very politically powerful within the industry. The economics of forming ONE data collection and EPD service that governs everybody is another question entirely. Theoreticaly NCBA or BIF would govern such a system; but if farmer Bob with no registered anything is getting EPDs for his crossbred cows and using them to directly compete with AAA, NALF, and AHA, etc members some people's feelings are going to get hurt.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brandonm22, post: 713754, member: 7645"] The University of Guelph has been working on this for years and years. Lee Leachman uses a customized version of Guelph's cross breed EPD system to assign cross breed EPDs to their various breeds and composites. [url=http://cgil.uoguelph.ca/pub/]http://cgil.uoguelph.ca/pub/[/url] The research is there. The problem would be implementing a cross breeds EPD system. Assigning Cross Breed EPDs to cattle of all breeds and multi-breeds would be stepping on a lot of breed association toes......toes that are very politically powerful within the industry. The economics of forming ONE data collection and EPD service that governs everybody is another question entirely. Theoreticaly NCBA or BIF would govern such a system; but if farmer Bob with no registered anything is getting EPDs for his crossbred cows and using them to directly compete with AAA, NALF, and AHA, etc members some people's feelings are going to get hurt. [/QUOTE]
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