Producer breeding objectives and optimal sire selection

Journal of Dairy Science

Volumn 85, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 3518-3525

  Tozer, P R ^a   Stokes, J R ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Individual mate selection; Multiple objective integer programming; Producer objectives

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BREEDING; CATTLE; COST; DAIRYING; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; INBREEDING; MALE; SPERM; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BREEDING; CATTLE; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; DAIRYING; FEMALE; INBREEDING; INSEMINATION, ARTIFICIAL; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEMEN;

EID: 0036984576     PISSN: 00220302     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3168/jds.S0022-0302(02)74441-X     Document Type: Article

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