Animal Cloning and Implications for the Food Chain
This report examines the potential issues involved with cloning animals for commercial industry, prepared for COI, on behalf of their client, The Food Standards Agency.

Supplement for Pregnancy
By Barry Potter - Livestock Specialist/OMAFRA. Feeding omega-3 fatty acids from flaxseed oil enhances conception rates and overall reproductive performance.

Breed for Success
This is the Proceedings of the 3rd Annual I-29 Dairy Conference, "Breed For Success".

Real-Time Ultrasound: Possible Uses in Genetic Prediction
By William Herring, Department of Animal Science, University of Missouri Extension. Ultrasound found its first applications in livestock research in the 1950s.

Genetic Evaluations Using Combined Data from All Breeds and Crossbred Cows
By Paul VanRaden and Melvin Tooker - Animal Improvement Programs Laboratory, USDA.

Breeding for Health
By Blair Murray - Dairy Genetic Improvement Specialist/OMAFRA - Recording herd health data could lead to strategies that would let you choose economically important genetic traits.

Genetic Evaluations Help Breed Better Bossies
By Sharon Durham, Agricultural Research Service, Food Animal Production, an ARS National Program, USDA. On a dairy farm, the cycle of life can be quite short. Sadly, about 8 percent of calves born do not survive beyond 48 hours and are considered stillborn....

Genetic Calving Ease Study on Crossbreds
J. B. Cole, R. C. Goodling, Jr., G. R. Wiggans and P. M. VanRaden Animal Improvement Programs Laboratory, Agriculture Research Service, USDA. The objective of this study was to examine the feasibility of implementing routine national calving ease...

Inbreeding in Cattle
By Sally L. Northcutt, Extension Beef Cattle Breeding Specialist and David S. Buchanan, Professor of Animal Science and Archie C. Clutter, Associate Professor of Animal Science.

Expected Progeny Differences (EPDs) in Beef Cattle1
By Hansen, G.R., Assistant Professor of Animal Science, University of Florida, NFREC Marianna, and Riley, D.G, Research Geneticist, Subtropical Agriculture Research Station Brookesville.

Young Sires for Herd Improvement
By Bennet Cassell, Extension Dairy Scientist, Genetics and Management, Virginia Tech.

Concerned About Inbreeding? A Computerized Mating Program might be the Answer!
By Dr. Kent Weigel, Department of Dairy Science, University of Wisconsin – Madison. Each year, service sires are selected for hundreds of thousands of US dairy cows using computerized mating programs.

2005 Across Breed EPD Table
By MARC Research Geneticists Dale Van Vleck and Larry Cundiff, United States Department of Agriculture. The table of adjustment factors to be used to estimate across-breed expected progeny differences (AB-EPDs) for sixteen breeds was presented to the...

Using Heritability for Genetic Improvement
By Bennet Cassell, Extension Dairy Scientist, Genetics and Management, Virginia Tech.

Inbreeding in Dairy Cattle
By Bennet G. Cassell, Extension Dairy Scientist, Genetics and Management, Virginia Tech.