Performance Line
$MTI – Remember, MTI contains weaning
and post-weaning growth, yield grade,
and marbling. So, any changes impacting
those EPDs will also impact $MTI.
Figure 2: $MTI genetic trend for BOLT and Spring 2018 NCE.
Table 11: $MTI Percentile Rank Comparison between Spring 2018 Cornell (SP18) and BOLT NCE.
Active Sires
BOLT
Non-Parents
Limousin
Active Sires
Limousin
Non-Parents LimFlex Active
Sires LimFlex
Non-Parents
SP18 BOLT SP18 BOLT SP18 BOLT SP18 BOLT SP18 BOLT SP18
124.08 80.53 96.59 84.28 71.92 63.07 94.84 62.3 90.74 Average 51.77 43.61 50.82 46.07 43.41 37.9 45.85 39.94 57.85 Low 21.12 20.67 22.62 23.1 21.12 20.67 22.62 23.1 35.23 1% 94.2 68.61 74.3 68.19 63.17 53.99 62.09 53 79.09 10% 71.11 57.61 63.28 58.63 53.35 45.64 54.4 47.25 69.25 25% 59.59 50.19 57.01 52.37 48.02 41.75 50.33 43.69 63.31 75% 41.04 35.96 43.86 39.18 38.14 33.53 40.79 35.82 51.68 80.53
53.68
35.6
72.13
63.92
58.42
48.17 96.59
58.24
22.78
77.68
67.85
62.96
53.07 84.28
53.88
29.66
71.17
62.7
58.27
49.12
High
Change can be difficult and often leads to many
questions – I hope this trait-by-trait primer
has helped answer some questions you may
have the goal with this change is to provide
you and your commercial customers with the
best-available selection tools to allow you
make the best possible decisions to move your
operations forward. For a good reference on
the improvement in predicting future progeny
performance offered by the release of weekly
BOLT-powered EPDS, please see the article on page
76 of your June/July Issue of Limousin Today. I
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