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2018 BREED AVERAGE EPDS
BW WW YW CE MCE MTNL
CHAROLAIS 0.3 29.0 52.9 5.1 5.4 23.4
SALERS 2 33.5 64.8 0 0.01 35.1

ADJUSTMENT FACTORS TO ADD TO EPDS OF DIFFERENT BREEDS TO ESTIMATE ACROSS-BREED EPDS

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Larry Kuehn and Mark Thallman, animals from different breeds cannot be compared be-
US Meat Animal Research Center cause most of the breed associations compute their EPDs
in separate analyses and each breed has a different base
Bulls of different breeds can be compared on the same point. The across-breed adjustment factors allow producers
EPD scale by adding the appropriate adjustment factor to to compare the EPDs for animals from different breeds for
the EPDs produced in the most recent genetic evaluations these traits. These factors adjust the EPDs to an Angus base
for each of the eighteen breeds. Normally, the EPDs of the (chosen arbitrarily).

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