2015 NBCEC Brown Bagger Series Kicks Off

by Jeffrey Beall

The 2015 National Beef Cattle Evaluation Consortium Brown Bagger series kicked off today. The Brown Bagger is a webinar discussing beef cattle genetics every Wednesday in October at 12:00 Central time. While we've already missed today's webinar, no fear there are more great presentations coming up. Plus, recordings of today's webinar will be available online in the coming weeks.

The theme for this year's series is "Advancing genetic selection in beef cattle: Improving current tools and developing new ones."

The following presentations are scheduled:

Oct 7 Advancements in National Cattle Evaluation Strategies
Host, Dr. Matt Spangler

• Latest changes to national cattle evaluation systems—Dr. Bob Weaber, Kansas State University
• Across Breed EPD and multi-breed genetic evaluation developments—Dr. Larry Kuehn, USDA-ARS-US-Meat Animal Research Center

Oct 14 Beef Cattle Fertility Project and Sequencing Effort Update
Host, Dr. Darrh Bullock

• Update on USDA Fertility Project—Dr. Megan Rolf, Oklahoma State University
• What we have learned from sequencing efforts to date—Dr. Jared Decker, University of Missouri

Oct 21 New Beef Improvement Federation Guidelines: Development Update
Host, Dr. Matt Spangler

• Beef Improvement Federation Feed Intake Guidelines Update—Dr. Mark Enns, Colorado State University
• Beef Improvement Federation Bovine Respiratory Disease Guidelines Update—Dr. Alison Van Eenennaam, University of California-Davis

Oct 28 Genomically Enhanced EPD Evaluations and New Genetics Educational Resources
Host, Dr. Bob Weaber

• Status update on genomically enhanced genetic evaluation by breeds—Dr. Matt Spangler, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
• eBEEF: a beef cattle breeding and genetics resource for producers on eXtension—Dr. Darrh Bullock, University of Kentucky
• 2016 Beef Improvement Federation Annual Meeting Invite—Dr. Bob Weaber, Kansas State University

If you will be watching the live webinars (not the recordings) please register online via https://kstate.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_etHw1WTZttuldIx.