MARC Releases 2013 Across-Breed EPD Tables.

The article reports that the U.S. Meat Animal Research Center (USMARC) has released its annual table of adjustment factors to be used for gauging expected progeny differences (EPDs) for 18 cattle breeds at the 2013 Beef Improvement Federation Annual Meeting held in Oklahoma City. It explains that EPDs predict differences likely to emerge in the future progeny of two or more bulls within the same breed, based on such as factors as birth weight, weaning weight, and maternal milking ability.