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BUILD A LEGACY
Get $Ranch & $Profit on Your Replacement Heifers
Generations of breeding decisions have laid the foundation for your herd. Now you can continue—and improve— that legacy with INHERIT Select,™ a genomic tool to help cow-calf producers with crossbred cattle make more informed selection and breeding decisions. INHERIT Select provides the industry with Genomic Expected Progeny Differences (GEPDs) for 16 traits that inform three economic indexes which simplify complex information to make better management decisions easier.
THE VALUE OF MORE INFORMED DECISIONS
A replacement can take about 4 years to break even.1 Identifying females that produce more valuable calves can add value long term. With GEPDs and indexes provided by INHERIT Select, you can make earlier and better selection decisions to identify future replacements. Selecting the right replacements is critical to the future of your herd, and has a direct impact on short-term profitability. • Earlier marketing decisions can help reduce heifer-raising costs and generate revenue. • Future herd productivity is accelerated by selecting females with more favorable predictions.
SELL SELECT AVERAGE SELL HARNESS HYBRID VIGOR AND SIRE PARENTAGE
INHERIT Select identifies genomic approximations of breed composition to help harness hybrid vigor and optimize production efficiency by: • Determining emphasis by breed contributing to crossbred GEPDs – Incorporating parent information for improved accuracy • Indicating potential maternal hybrid vigor that favorably impacts reproduction, fitness and survival traits • Helping to inform breeding decisions in future calf crops
Every Leachman sire sells with Genomically Enhanced EPD’s from Zoetis!
What does that mean to you as a bull buyer?
1. More accurate EPD’s. The bulls you buy have more accurate EPDs because of the genomically enhanced (GE) Zoetis analysis of our 1.4 MM animal database. In rough terms, these GE EPDs are TWICE as accurate as non genomically enhanced EPDs.
2. Parentage is verified on every bull we sell. 3. Far more accuracy on the maternal traits that cannot be measured on a bull.
These traits include mature size of a bull’s daughters, daughter fertility, daughter milk production, and daughter teat and udder quality!
1. You can have EPDs to select your replacement heifers. You invest $1,500 to $2,000 in every replacement heifer that you keep back and put into production. Unfortunately, without data, this process is difficult.
In particular, we keep females that come up open and fall out of the system. 2. You can eliminate heifers that don’t fit your specifications. With EPDs, you can select optimal levels of milk, size, and feed requirements. 3. You can create higher value feeder calves. By selecting for the Zoetis Feeder Calf index, you can improve feedlot performance and carcass value in your future calves.
1. Get GE-EPDs and Leachman $Ranch, $Feeder, and $Profit on your cattle. By contributing your seedstock data to the Leachman $Profit Share database, you will be joining leading seedstock producers from around the world. You will have predictions on the feed cost on your animals. You will also have global comparability for your genetics as our database includes cattle from the US, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and the UK -- making it the largest, private, multi-breed, beef cattle database in the world. 2. Gain a new way to help your commercial customers. By linking your genetics to your customers replacement females, you provide improved services to your customers. You can become directly involved in helping them interpret their Inherit Select results. This will make them more loyal customers and better bull buyers.
