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$Profit® Financial Indexes Allow You to HAVE IT ALL !
$Ranch ® – Profit from birth through weaning. Includes:
• Fertility, Milk, Growth
• Cow feed intake and mature size
$Feeder ® – Profit from weaning to harvest. Includes:
• Feed conversion
• Carcass value
• Carcass weight
$Profit ® – Puts it all together. $Ranch ® + $Feeder ®
• One number that predicts your bottom line !
Feed:Gain – Difference in the amount of feed a bull's progeny will consume to produce one pound of gain.
Example: A -0.50 F:G EPD means this animal's progeny will consume 1/2 pound less feed per pound of gain than would progeny of a 0.00 F:G EPD sire.
Feed Intake – Difference in feed consumption of each of a bull's progeny in a 112 day feeding period.
Example: A steer whose sire has a -100 Intake EPD will eat 100 pounds less feed in 112 days than one whose sire had a zero Intake EPD.
Across Breed Comparisons
Dare to compare! You cannot afford to make mistakes in your breeding program! Choosing to use sires with incomplete or low value data can unknowingly make your herd less profitable –same work, same cost, poor results - unacceptable. Leachman ABC’s are the most reliable and comprehensive EPDs in the industry. They are backed by a large (nearly a million), longstanding (over 30 years), multi-breed (over 15 breeds) database. Using this system assures you of making sound breeding decisions with minimal risk of failure.
$ Indexes Explained