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What Counts as a Good Number
You are standing at the sale barn counter with a bull’s page in your hand. His weaning weight EPD reads +80. Somebody asks you if that is any good, and you realize you have no…
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What an EPD Is, in Plain English
You already do the thing an EPD does. You just do it with two animals at a time. Stand two bulls side by side and you can guess which one throws the heavier calves. You…
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EPDs, Plain and Simple
This is a five-part series for a working cattleman who wants to read the numbers on a bull’s page and know what they mean, not just glance at them and hope. No schooling in math…
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The page of numbers nobody taught you to read
You are standing at a sale. The catalog is open, and every bull has a row of numbers after his name. Nobody ever sat you down and taught you to read them. So you do…
