Success StoryUsing EPD's To Select The Best Bull



Using EPD's To Select The Best Bull

Author: Andy Mills

Planning Unit: Meade County CES

Major Program: Beef

Plan of Work: Improved Management Practices, Animal Science, Grain & Forage Crops

Outcome: Initial Outcome

Due to the increasing publicity of cattle sales and many types of propaganda available as well as articles written in newsletters and magazines every year, this Agriculture and Natural Resources Extension Educator decided to develop a presentation on selecting the right bull. Many beef producers can select a good bull for the herd, but most can not select the best bull for the marketing and retention program. Therefore, using several beef cattle management scenarios that would pertain to almost all of the producers in Meade County, this ANR agent developed a presentation that would help producers understand how to read the right kind of Expected Progeny Difference, EPD, categories that best suits their program as well as how to put a dollar value to these numbers as compared to other bulls with other EPD's using the University of Kentucky College of Agriculture beef enterprise budgets.

This presentation was given at a Meade County Cattlemen's meeting, where over 100 beef producers participated. After the program in the coming months, twelve producers have brought in registration papers of multiple bulls or sales catalogs where this ANR agent has gone one on one with them to help them make the selection of the best bull for their program.






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