Everyone in livestock breeding knows that prediction accuracy took a big step forward with the introduction of best linear unbiased prediction (BLUP) breeding values. BLUP methodology combined the following very important ...

The FAO publication, Livestock’s Long Shadow, indicated that livestock is responsible for 18% of the world’s greenhouse gas production thereby creating the perception that livestock is a major cause of global warming. ...

In South African Bonsmara cattle, feed conversion ratio (FCR) is mostly used as a measure of feed efficiency in selection programs but has the disadvantage of being a ratio trait and unfavourably correlated to weight and ...