Understanding the Dairy Beef Index (DBI)

07 July 2020
Type Media Article

The Dairy Beef Index (DBI) is a tool to produce quality beef cattle from the dairy herd that have both desirable calving attributes for the dairy herd (i.e. easy calving and short gestation) and valuable carcass merit attributes for the finisher.

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ICBF have produced a very useful publication ‘UNDERSTANDING THE DAIRY BEEF INDEX’. All aspects of the Dairy Beef Index are explained including:

What is the Dairy Beef Index?
Why use the Dairy Beef Index
Understanding the Traits in the Dairy Beef Index
How is the Dairy Beef Index Calculated?
Who Should Use the Dairy Beef Index

There is also advice for dairy farmers and beef breeders.