JustSimmental
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As I expected the Red Angus and Simmental Association is one --working off the same base of EPD's. Meanwhile, the Black Angus Association is not to happy with this merger, but they had an opportunity to join, but have evidently declined, so far. It has been a long time coming, but definitely worth the wait.
The Black Angus Association is still working off the 1972 data base, which doesn't mean a lot when we consider the huge amount of genetic change in Black Angus and really all beef breeds since that time.
As we (should) know Black Angus is weak in WW, YW, MWW, YG, BF and REA. The new numbers also show a decline in CE, MCE and BW, which was the AAA's claim to fame for many decades-- This is OVER.
Black Angus has taken for granted their calving ease, birth weight, and IMF, but PB Simmental cattle have caught up and in most cases surpassed Black Angus in all EPD's of economic importance except Marbling/IMF. I believe that breeding decisions within Black Angus has been the root of their decline over many years and that it won't be long (couple years) until many of the high end PB Simmental will surpass even Marbling, with the average Simmental surpassing even Black Angus in the next 3-5 years.
As a PB Simmental Producer, I welcome the Red Angus Breeders to Simmental. The red cattle are becoming popular again and seem to be in high demand. We always maintained our red cattle, which were Red non-diluters, which would produce black calves. Several years ago, when we felt there was an increase in the interest in red and we began breeding more red cattle. Interesting that the 2011 crop of Red PB and S/A bulls sold before the black bulls did.
Again welcome to Simmental.
JS
The Black Angus Association is still working off the 1972 data base, which doesn't mean a lot when we consider the huge amount of genetic change in Black Angus and really all beef breeds since that time.
As we (should) know Black Angus is weak in WW, YW, MWW, YG, BF and REA. The new numbers also show a decline in CE, MCE and BW, which was the AAA's claim to fame for many decades-- This is OVER.
Black Angus has taken for granted their calving ease, birth weight, and IMF, but PB Simmental cattle have caught up and in most cases surpassed Black Angus in all EPD's of economic importance except Marbling/IMF. I believe that breeding decisions within Black Angus has been the root of their decline over many years and that it won't be long (couple years) until many of the high end PB Simmental will surpass even Marbling, with the average Simmental surpassing even Black Angus in the next 3-5 years.
As a PB Simmental Producer, I welcome the Red Angus Breeders to Simmental. The red cattle are becoming popular again and seem to be in high demand. We always maintained our red cattle, which were Red non-diluters, which would produce black calves. Several years ago, when we felt there was an increase in the interest in red and we began breeding more red cattle. Interesting that the 2011 crop of Red PB and S/A bulls sold before the black bulls did.
Again welcome to Simmental.
JS