EBI can be used successfully in high output dairy herds
January 15, 2021 10:50 am Economic Breeding Index (EBI) can be used as an effective herd management tool across all dairy production scenarios, according to University College Dublin’s (UCD’s) associate professor of agriculture, Alan Fahey. Speaking at a recent webinar, held to profile the results achieved by the Lyons’ Systems herd over the past five years, Fahey pointed out that two cows with the same overall EBI value could deliver two entirely different levels of performance. One could be particularly high in terms of milk output, the other could be very high, where fertility is con...
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