The February 2025 ACJ has been published and mailed! Click the link below to read Dustin’s full article and to stay up-to-date on all of the recent and upcoming ACA happenings!
“As a breed, we are always looking for ways we can continue to improve and offer more data and information to our members and potential customers. As you look at the EPDs on your animals, you will notice that we have added API and TI to the EPD profiles. API is an All-Purpose Index and TI is a Terminal Index. These are both comparable to the Simmental Association EPDs for these traits as our EPDs are generated by IGS, giving us EPDs that we can compare across breeds. This will be a great tool for the commercial cattlemen when buying bulls to help in the selection of their next herd sire. Utilize these EPDs as you market your cattle and if you have questions, please let us know.
As I was listening to a grand drive speech during another breed show in OKC, the judge encouraged the exhibitors to continue turning in data and weights to bring the accuracies up on EPDs, as well as genomic test the cattle so that they have the best data possible to share with customers, ensuring they stay relevant in the commercial sector of the industry. This is such great advice and one our membership should take into consideration as well. If you are selling bulls, you need to turn in as much data as you can to help bring our EPD accuracies up. The more data we collect, the better our numbers look, helping the entire breed succeed.” – Dustin Hurlbut, ACA CEO
