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<blockquote data-quote="cbcr" data-source="post: 899728" data-attributes="member: 16303"><p>As I have posted before, the BIF across breed adjustment tables are not accurate. If you will look at any Angus bull that is used heavily and pull his EPD's from all of the breed associations and then try to use the BIF adjustments you will see how far off they really are.</p><p></p><p>In the dairy industry the sire proofs are done by the USDA and it doesn't make any difference which breed it is they can be compared.</p><p></p><p>But as has been mentioned, too many politics in the associations are in the way to let this happen in the beef industry, no matter if all producers could greatly benefit.</p><p></p><p>Another problem, and it doesn't make any difference who is doing the calculations, there are now 3 or 4 companies the are performing EPD calculations, is that, even with them, the EPD's will be different. The reason is due to how many animals of each breed are in their databases. The Simmental one, is mostly made up of Simmental cattle. Others may have a larger base of another breed. But, the bottom line is I think that those that are trying to do multibreed evaluations even with some of the differences, are more accurate that the BIF adjustment tables.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cbcr, post: 899728, member: 16303"] As I have posted before, the BIF across breed adjustment tables are not accurate. If you will look at any Angus bull that is used heavily and pull his EPD's from all of the breed associations and then try to use the BIF adjustments you will see how far off they really are. In the dairy industry the sire proofs are done by the USDA and it doesn't make any difference which breed it is they can be compared. But as has been mentioned, too many politics in the associations are in the way to let this happen in the beef industry, no matter if all producers could greatly benefit. Another problem, and it doesn't make any difference who is doing the calculations, there are now 3 or 4 companies the are performing EPD calculations, is that, even with them, the EPD's will be different. The reason is due to how many animals of each breed are in their databases. The Simmental one, is mostly made up of Simmental cattle. Others may have a larger base of another breed. But, the bottom line is I think that those that are trying to do multibreed evaluations even with some of the differences, are more accurate that the BIF adjustment tables. [/QUOTE]
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