{"id":4281,"date":"2002-01-01T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2002-01-01T01:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/export.maxmaziy.php.nixsolutions.com\/?p=4281"},"modified":"2002-01-01T01:01:01","modified_gmt":"2002-01-01T01:01:01","slug":"selection-programs-for-seedstock-producers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/selection-programs-for-seedstock-producers\/","title":{"rendered":"Selection Programs for Seedstock Producers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seedstock producers require sound selection programs to ensure genetic progress for their customers. This fact sheet will aid seedstock producers in determining their selection objective(s) and how<br \/>\nto make selection and culling decisions while managing risk. The concepts of performance testing, expected progeny differences (EPDs), accuracies and selection indexes will also be briefly<br \/>\nreviewed. However, this is not a comprehensive publication on genetic improvement. Before using this fact sheet, it may be worthwhile to read NSIF fact sheets #9 and #10.<br \/>\nThe order of topics in this fact sheet are:<br \/>\n1. Determining selection objectives<br \/>\n2. Basics of performance testing<br \/>\n3. Expected progeny differences (EPDs)<br \/>\n4. Accuracies<br \/>\n5. Selection indexes<br \/>\n6. Making selection decisions<br \/>\n7. Selecting and culling sires<br \/>\n8. Selecting and culling females<br \/>\n9. Managing selection risk<br \/>\n10. Summary<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seedstock producers require sound selection programs to ensure genetic progress for their customers. This fact sheet will aid seedstock producers in determining their selection objective(s) and how to make selection and culling decisions while managing risk. The concepts of performance testing, expected progeny differences (EPDs), accuracies and selection indexes will also be briefly reviewed. However, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[930],"tags":[8882,21042,2472,25122,11738,23795,3804,133,63,22808,17743,2351,2365,3809,3810,20911,1579],"class_list":["post-4281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-production","tag-al","tag-comprehensive","tag-culling","tag-eet","tag-fact-sheet","tag-fact-sheets-2","tag-genetic","tag-hens","tag-performance","tag-pic","tag-prod","tag-progeny","tag-risk","tag-seedstock-producter","tag-selection-program","tag-t","tag-test"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}