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University Animal Breeding Research^{1 ,2,}

Iowa State University, Ames 50011

Abstract

Industry, large U.S.D.A. projects, and university research should and will play significant roles in developing foundations for tomorrow. Particular researchable problems face the large breeding organizations and the breed association in servicing their membership of small independent breeders. Genetic parameter estimation can be done by these groups using field data. Possibly, sire evaluation and dam evaluation will be areas of intense interest. The large U.S.D.A. projects can develop germ plasm comparisons desperately needed by industry and can help define the extent of genotype by environmental interaction with cooperative studies over the relevant production areas. University researchers can develop more detailed studies requiring the involvement of several disciplines. Possibly, more effort can be directed toward the development of new animal breeding theory, especially that directed to industry-wide problems rather than specific enterprise problems. And the development of trained animal breeders will continue to be necessary.

¹ Journal Paper No. J-8590 of the Iowa Agriculture and Home Economics Experiment Station, Ames. Project No. 2000.

² Presented at Symposium on Animal Breeding Research Foundations for Tomorrow at 67th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Animal Science, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, July 29, 1975.