Four bull proofs slated for 2010

Sire evaluations currently are published three times a year — January, April, and August. In 2010 that will change for one year with evaluations released four times — January, April, August, and December. The extra December evaluation is intended to balance future publication dates moving forward. With that said, there will no longer be January genetic evaluations in 2011, and genetic evaluations will be published in April, August, and December in future years.

That decision was reached earlier this winter when over 100 representatives of national evaluation centers, A.I. organizations, breed associations, and genomic researchers met at an Interbull workshop in Uppsala, Sweden. Interbull is the international body that works to harmonize genetic evaluations across all countries with populations of dairy cattle.