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<blockquote data-quote="cow pollinater" data-source="post: 1244675" data-attributes="member: 14661"><p>I might be misunderstanding the question but DNA is just more information and really the breed associations job is only to provide lineage that shows that the cattle belong to their breed.</p><p>As far as DNA testing being the wave of the future, I don't think it will be. Nothing ever beats progeny proven and on the dairy side of things we figure a genomic test to be the equivalent of about twelve daughters and that is a loooooong way from proven. ;-) It's a good start and we are able to cull a few duds that we wouldn't have known about without it, but it's not the same as evaluating calves on the ground.</p><p>I've already seen a few train wrecks in herds where they decided that a genomic test was the same as proven. The first generation is not so bad but if you get into two and three generations of only genomic testing you really don't know what you have other than three generations of crapshoot. </p><p>Like Gizmom, I see some of the beef cattle being sold by dna and epds that don't have a place in a quality herd regardless of what the numbers say.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cow pollinater, post: 1244675, member: 14661"] I might be misunderstanding the question but DNA is just more information and really the breed associations job is only to provide lineage that shows that the cattle belong to their breed. As far as DNA testing being the wave of the future, I don't think it will be. Nothing ever beats progeny proven and on the dairy side of things we figure a genomic test to be the equivalent of about twelve daughters and that is a loooooong way from proven. ;-) It's a good start and we are able to cull a few duds that we wouldn't have known about without it, but it's not the same as evaluating calves on the ground. I've already seen a few train wrecks in herds where they decided that a genomic test was the same as proven. The first generation is not so bad but if you get into two and three generations of only genomic testing you really don't know what you have other than three generations of crapshoot. Like Gizmom, I see some of the beef cattle being sold by dna and epds that don't have a place in a quality herd regardless of what the numbers say. [/QUOTE]
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