SAES-422 Multistate Research Activity Accomplishments Report

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Project No. and Title: NCERA199 : Implementation and Strategies for National Beef Cattle Genetic Evaluation (new project)
Period Covered: 11/01/2006 to 10/01/2007
Date of Report: 12/20/2007
Annual Meeting Dates: 10/26/2007 to 10/27/2007

Rumph, Janice (janice@montana.edu) - Montana State University; Gaskins, Charles (gaskins@wsu.edu) - Washington State University; Burfening, Peter (pburfening@csrees,usda.gov) - USDA/CSREES; Kress, Don (dkress@montana.edu) - Montana State University; Anderson, Don (donalda@montana.edu) - Montana State University; Shafer, Wade (wshafer@simmgene.com) - American Simmental Association; Weaber, Bob (weaberr@missouri.edu) - University of Missouri; Woodward, Brent (brent.woodward@merial.com) - Merial; Lewis, Ron (rmlewis@vt.edu) - Virginia Tech University; Pollack, John (ejp6@cornell.edu) - Cornell University; Hanford, Kathy (khanford2@unl.edu) - University of Nebraska; Kachman, Steve (skachman@unl.edu) - University of Nebraska; Fernando, Rohan (rohan@iastate.edu) - Iowa State University; Northcutt, Sally (snorthcutt@angus.org) - American Angus Association; Tess, Mike (mwtess@montana.edu) - Montana State University; Quass, Dick (rlq1@cornell.edu) - Cornell University; Wilton, Jim (jwilton@uoguelph.ca) -University of Guelph; Bennett, Gary (gary.bennett@ars.usda.gov) - USMARC; Davis, Mike (davis.28@osu.edu) - Ohio State University; Misztal, Ignacy (ignacy@uga.edu) - University of Georgia; Hyde, Lauren (lauren@nalf.org) - North American Limousin Foundation; Enns, Mark (mark.enns@colostate.edu) - Colorado State University; Bormann, Jennifer (jbormann@ksu.edu) - Kansas State University; Kirschten, Dave (dkirschten@simmgene.com) - American Simmental Association; Schaefer, Dan (schaeferd@ansci.wisc.edu) - University of Wisconsin

Brief Summary of Minutes of Annual Meeting

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Accomplishments

The 2007 annual meeting of NCERA-199: Implementation and Strategies for National Beef Cattle Genetic Evaluation took place on October 26-27 at Montana State University, Bozeman, MT. Scientists involved in beef cattle quantitative genetics research reported on work that has been done in the previous year, and new ideas that will be research in the future. Committee members received a Challenge grant to develop online graduate education modules. Various other members have volunteered to serve as reviewers for the modules. Committee members hosted and presented in the National Beef Cattle Evaluation Consortiums brown bagger series. This online presentation series reaches educators, extension personnel, and producers across the country and discusses timely issues in beef cattle breeding. The National Beef Cattle consortium, which is led by members of this committee, has started to develop multi-institution teams that will collect and analyze data for specific problems related to beef breeding. DNA and phenotypes will be collected and stored for future use by beef cattle genetics researchers.

Impacts

The prototype for multi-breed cattle evaluation is being run at Georgia. When fully developed and released, this will allow cattle producers to compare bulls from different breeds and crossbred bulls to each other.
A symposium about the genetics of animal health was held in December in Kansas City. Despite the large economic impact of animal health for producers, little work has been done to determine the genetic basis of animal health traits. This conference was a forum to allow exchange of ideas and planning for future research.

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