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New Cooperation on exchange of genotypes for genomic young Holstein bulls between North America and Germany


cdcbStarting with the August evaluation the members of the Cooperative Dairy DNA Repository (CDDR) including ABS Global, Accelerated Genetics, ALTA Genetics, CRI, Select Sires and Semex and the German Genomic Consortium (all German Holstein organizations) will routinely exchange the genotypes of all new young genomic AI bulls that are at least 10 month of age. The owners of the bulls will receive non-published genomic breeding values from the other country’s routine genomic evaluation. With these evaluations they can decide which bulls are to be published on the other country’s scale. As ‘Approved Partners’ both sides are granted beneficial fees for genomic evaluation and publication. The initial exchange included bulls 2,054 bulls from CDDR members and 484 bulls from the German associations. The exchange will continue monthly


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