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High performance rams make $500 more than ‘average’ sires

Project start date: 01 January 2004
Project end date: 01 July 2006
Publication date: 01 July 2006
Project status: Completed
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Summary

Heywood Advanced Breeders Inc. developed a breeding program incorporating US Suffolk genetics into prime lamb seedstock. The group completed a breeding program which has improved the genetic capability of the composite seedstock it uses through widespread artificial insemination (AI).

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Project manager: David Beatty
Primary researcher: MLA