Welsh sheep farmers to help create EBV for methane yield
Farmers could soon have the option to breed sheep with a naturally low carbon footprint thanks to a new project creating an EBV for methane yield.
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Farmers could soon have the option to breed sheep with a naturally low carbon footprint thanks to a new project creating an EBV for methane yield.
A milestone in the goal of evidencing the sustainability credentials of Welsh hill farms has been reached with the establishment of a biodiversity baseline.
Wales is leading the way in developing genomic breeding values in the hill sheep sector thanks to a project's uniquely large DNA database.
Greater numbers of lambs produced from a Welsh hill flock are hitting finishing weights since performance recording was introduced to improve genetics
Sheep breeders are selling rams with parasite resistance attributes after finding 35% heritability for the trait through a blood test. And growing numbers