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<blockquote data-quote="Brandonm22" data-source="post: 640771" data-attributes="member: 7645"><p>That simply proves my point. Whether the buyers wants higher weaning weights, lower birth weights, or BOTH, the first thing increasingly more and more buyers are going to look at is the EPD that they are most concerned with. Granted if the actual birth weight is 105 pounds, you probably lost the sale; but you weren't going to sell that bull to the guy (without lying!) anyway. You might be able to sell a bull with a 70 lb actual birth weight and a +4.6 birth wt EPD; but if that bull's calves are closer to the EPD than the actual you probably just lost a customer for life. How does Angus keep lowering their birth weight EPD year after year after year (and I look at an Angus bull with a -2.7 birth wt EPD and wonder if that is really a good thing)? By keeping records and crunching more and more numbers and then actually using the data.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brandonm22, post: 640771, member: 7645"] That simply proves my point. Whether the buyers wants higher weaning weights, lower birth weights, or BOTH, the first thing increasingly more and more buyers are going to look at is the EPD that they are most concerned with. Granted if the actual birth weight is 105 pounds, you probably lost the sale; but you weren't going to sell that bull to the guy (without lying!) anyway. You might be able to sell a bull with a 70 lb actual birth weight and a +4.6 birth wt EPD; but if that bull's calves are closer to the EPD than the actual you probably just lost a customer for life. How does Angus keep lowering their birth weight EPD year after year after year (and I look at an Angus bull with a -2.7 birth wt EPD and wonder if that is really a good thing)? By keeping records and crunching more and more numbers and then actually using the data. [/QUOTE]
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