Peak: Collaboration of Competitors within the Industry

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In North America the heifer programs established by the major bull studs are a core part of the bull breeding industry. Most bull studs now source more than 50% of their young sires from these heifer programs, where the emphasis is on constantly fine-tuning their processes to make incremental gains in shortening the generation interval. The herd prefix of the Peak program regularly appears among the top ranks of the monthly genomic proof releases. Here is the background.

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