USDA Talks on Cow Genetics

That I presented or cowrote 1999-2025:

The VanRaden subset of AIP Presentations

 

2026 (retired)

BLUPF90 short course, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, May 2026
VanRaden, Paul. Animal breeding software lessons: 1926-2026
VanRaden, Paul. Current and future directions for animal breeding software

Farewell to Interbull Friends (2024-25)

 

Presentations from years:

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2025

Misztal Symposium, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, April 2025
VanRaden, Paul. Future directions for animal breeders

Continuing Education Series, AGIL/CDCB Information Exchange, January 2025
VanRaden, Paul. Data, methods, and software used in U.S. genomic predictions

2024

S1096 Dairy Genetics Multistate Group Meeting, University of Minnesota, St Paul, Minnesota, October 2024
VanRaden, Paul. Proposed Net Merit $ revisions for 2025
VanRaden, Paul. Beltsville dairy breeding experiments 1912-2024   
Basiel, Bailey. Quantifying the utilization and genetic benefits of advanced breeding programs within U.S. dairy herds

LeClerg Lecture, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, September 2024
VanRaden, Paul. Local selection experiments and global impacts of university genetics training

ADSA Annual Meeting, West Palm Beach, Florida, June 2024

Null, Dan. Improved tracking of recent mutations within common haplotypes causing cholesterol deficiency, muscle weakness, and BLIRD [poster presentation]
O’Connell, Jeff. Genetic and genomic evaluations of milking speed and duration from automated milk recording
Toghiani, Sajjad. Validation of genomic prediction for economic traits in heifers across five U.S. dairy breeds 
VanRaden, Paul. Comparison of genomic merit, pedigree completeness, inbreeding, and relationships of genotyped animals across continents

ICAR-Interbull Joint Meeting, Bled, Slovenia, May 2024
Miles, Asha. Genetic & genomic evaluations of quantitative milking speed phenotypes
VanRaden, Paul. Breeding programs compared across countries, continents, and breeds

2024 Arthur B. Chapman Lecturer in Animal Breeding and Genetics, University of Wisconsin, April 2024
VanRaden, Paul. Improving progress across generations of cows, farmers, and scientists. [Recorded talk]. AB Chapman Lecture. 
VanRaden, Paul. Animal breeding lessons and skills are useful across many decades. Animal Science Lecture.

Transforming Agriculture Webinar Series, April 2024 
VanRaden, Paul. Genomic tools for animal breeding

2023

Symposium for Esa Mäntysaari, Jokioinen, Finland, September 2023
VanRaden, Paul. Improvements in validating predictions and solving multi-trait genomic models

Interbull Annual Meeting, Lyon, France, August 2023
VanRaden, Paul. Modeling identical animals and clones in genetic evaluations
VanRaden, Paul. Validation Working Group report

ADSA Annual Meeting, Ottawa, Canada, June 2023
Al-Khudhair, Ahmed. Haplotype inheritance and livability of recumbent Holstein calves [poster presentation]
Miles, Asha. Standardizing lactation yields from national data with age-parity-season-region corrections for fair comparisons across individual cows & environments
O’Connell, Jeff. Imputed gene tests for all animals
VanRaden, Paul. Combined effects of milking intervals and frequencies

National Dairy Herd Information Association Annual Meeting, Sacramento, California, March 2023
Miles, Asha. AGIL update 2023 - Milking speed, factors project, & a lot of other interesting stuff

2022

VanRaden, Paul. 100 year celebration of A matrix (Sewall Wright)

ADSA Annual Meeting (Hybrid), Kansas City, Missouri, June 2022
Miles, Asha. The increasing popularity of embryo transfer has implications for US dairy cattle fertility evaluations
Null, Dan. Improved, expanded, and automated ancestor discovery [poster presentation]. Download w/audio
Toghiani, Sajjad. Phenotypic and genotypic impact of milk components and bodyweight composite on dry matter intake. Download slides w/audio
VanRaden, Paul. Flexible testing and use of milk-only records

12th World Congress on Genetics Applied to Livestock Production, Rotterdam, Netherlands, July 2022
Miles, Asha. The increasing popularity of embryo transfer has implications for US dairy cattle fertility evaluations
VanRaden, Paul. Recent advances and future needs in genotype imputationDownload slides w/audio


2021

ADSA Virtual Meeting, July 2021
Al-Khudhair, Ahmed. Inheritance of a mutation causing Jersey neuropathy with splayed forelimbs. Download slides w/audio
Nani, Juan. Accounting for X chromosome and allele frequencies in genomic inbreeding estimation. Download slides w/video
Neupane, Mahesh. Genetic and genomic evaluation of late term abortion recorded through Dairy Herd Improvement test plans. Download slides w/audio

Council on Dairy Cattle Breeding "Deep Dive into Net Merit 2021" webinar, June 2021
VanRaden, Paul. 2021 revision of the net merit index

Interbull Annual Meeting, April 2021
Toghiani, Sajjad. National index correlations and expected vs. actual use of foreign sires 
VanRaden, Paul. Improved genomic validation with extra regressions Download slides w/audio
Wiggans, George. Genomic evaluation of crossbred dairy cattle in the United States

2020

Council on Dairy Cattle Breeding Dairy Industry webinar, November 2020
VanRaden, Paul. Calculation and use of genetic evaluations for feed savedDownload slides w/audio

ADSA Virtual Meeting, June 2020
Al-Khudhair, Ahmed. Imputation and investigation of sequence genotypes for 6,735,530 variants of 39,048 HolsteinsDownload slides w/audio
Nani, Juan. Methods to implement ancestor discovery in the US dairy cattle databaseDownload slides w/audio
Neupane, Mahesh. Genomic evaluation of dairy heifer livabilityDownload slides w/audio
Null, Dan. Quality control to improve properties of sequence genotypes from different sources [poster presentation] 
VanRaden, Paul. New traits and economic updates for the net merit index [not presented because of a technical error] | AbstractDownload slides w/audio

2019

World Dairy Expo, October 2019
VanRaden, Paul. Preview of genetic evaluations for feed efficiency (and other traits)

ADSA Meeting, June 2019
Li, Bingjie. Genomic prediction and marker selection using high-density genotypes from 5 dairy breeds 
VanRaden, Paul. How to implement genomic selection 
Wiggans, George. Genomic predictions using more markers and gene tests 

Interbull Annual Meeting, June 2019
Null, Dan. Using the new ARS-UCD1 reference map in US genomic predictions 

Council on Dairy Cattle Breeding Industry Meeting, February 2019
VanRaden, Paul. Genomic selection: Achievements in the last decade and plans for the nextDownload slides w/audio

2018

World Dairy Expo, October 2018
VanRaden, Paul. Improved genomic selection for health and other traits 

Council on Dairy Cattle Breeding Industry Meeting, October 2018
VanRaden, Paul. What is cooking at AGIL? 

ADSA Meeting, June 2018
Bradford, Heather. Modeling uncertain paternity to address differential pedigree accuracy 
Hutchison, Jana. Methods to compute reliabilities for genomic predictions of feed intake 
Null, Dan. Potential benefits from using a new reference map in genomic prediction 
VanRaden, Paul. Multitrait modeling of first vs. later parities for US yield, somatic cell score, and fertility traits 

Interbull Annual Meeting, February 2018
VanRaden, Paul. Validation of genomic reliability and gains from phenotypic updates 
Wiggans, George. Methods for discovering and validating relationships among genotyped animals 

11th World Congress on Genetics Applied to Livestock Production, February 2018
O'Connell, Jeff. Predicting which variants genotype well with array vs. sequence data 
VanRaden, Paul. Including feed intake data from U.S. Holsteins in genomic prediction

2017

Council on Dairy Cattle Breeding Industry Meeting, October 2017
Tooker, Mel. Validation of genomic predictions and genomic reliability 
VanRaden, Paul. AGIL research progress

Interbull Meeting, August 2017
VanRaden, Paul. Genomic tools to improve progress and preserve variation for future generations 

American Society of Animal Science Meeting, July 2017
VanRaden, Paul. Ability to genotype differing variants with arrays vs. whole genome sequencing 

ADSA Meeting, June 2017
Hutchison, Jana. Bull fertility evaluations for Angus service sires bred to Holstein cows [poster presentation] 
Tooker, Mel. Genomic predictions for crossbreds from all-breed data 
VanRaden, Paul. Genetic evaluation of gestation length as a trait of the service sire [poster presentation] 
VanRaden, Paul. Preliminary genomic predictions of feed saved for 1.4 million Holsteins 

Interbull Workshop, February 2017
VanRaden, Paul. Tests of single-step GBLUP for production traits in US Holsteins

2016

Interbull Annual Meeting, October 2016
O'Connell, Jeff. Selection of sequence variants to improve dairy cattle genomic predictions 
VanRaden, Paul. Value of selecting for cow and calf livability 

Council on Dairy Cattle Breeding Industry Meeting, October 2016
Norman, Duane. Cow livability evaluation and heifer livability research 
VanRaden, Paul. AGIL technical report 

Genomic Prediction Workshop, University of Florida, August 2016
VanRaden, Paul. Rapid growth of genomic prediction in dairy cattle 

Department of Animal Sciences Seminar, University of Florida, August 2016
VanRaden, Paul. Genetic improvement for fertility, livability, and heat stress 

ADSA-ASAS-CSAS-WSASAS Joint Annual Meeting, July 2016
Hutchison, Jana. Sexed-semen usage for Holstein AI in the United States [poster presentation]
Tooker, Mel. Selection of sequence variants to improve dairy cattle genomic predictions 
VanRaden, Paul. Identifying and Calling Insertions, Deletions, and Single-Base Mutations Efficiently from Sequence Data 
Wright, Jan. Genetic evaluation of dairy cow livability [poster presentation]

NAAB Korean Delegation, July 2016
VanRaden, Paul. Selection of young animals using genomic evaluations 

University of Maryland Statistical Genomics (BIOM688E) Seminar, April 2016
VanRaden, Paul. Computation of large-scale genomic evaluations 

Select Sires Sire Committee Meeting, March 2016
VanRaden, Paul. Current and future evaluation changes 

Plant and Animal Genome XXIV Conference, January 2016
VanRaden, Paul. Fast single-pass alignment and variant calling using sequencing data

2015

Council on Dairy Cattle Breeding Industry Meeting, September 2015
VanRaden, Paul. History of genomic evaluations in The United States 

ADSA-ASAS Joint Annual Meeting, August 2015
Null, Dan. Assignment of polled status using single nucleotide polymorphism genotypes and predicted gene content 
VanRaden, Paul. Practical implications for genetic modeling in the genomics era 
Wright, Jan. Genetic interactions for heat stress and herd yield level: predicting foreign genetic merit from domestic data [poster presentation]

Interbull Annual Meeting, August 2015
Cooper, Tabatha. Genomic evaluations and breed composition for crossbred U.S. dairy cattle 
O'Connell, Jeff. Strategies to choose from millions of imputed sequence variants 
Tooker, Mel. Comparison of domestic and foreign genotypes by country and continent 

Herd '15 Biannual Meeting, March 2015
VanRaden, Paul. How genomics and collaboration produce results that may surprise us 
VanRaden, Paul. Why genetic progress requires continually improving methods

Interbull Technical Workshop and Industry Meeting, February 2015
VanRaden, Paul. Monitoring U.S. genetic evaluations for the influence of genomic pre-selection

2014

10th World Congress on Genetics Applied to Livestock Production, August 2014
Sun, Chuanyu. Increasing predictive ability using dominance in genomic selection 
VanRaden, Paul. Fast imputation using medium- or low-coverage sequence data  

Council on Dairy Cattle Breeding Meeting, August 2014
Cole, John. An updated version of lifetime net merit incorporating additional fertility traits and new economic values 
Sun, Chuanyu. Genomic relationships for mating programs 
VanRaden, Paul. Use of new multi-trait, all-breed genetic evaluation software 

ADSA – ASAS – CSAS Joint Annual Meeting, July 2014
Cole, John. An updated version of lifetime net merit incorporating additional fertility traits and new economic values 
Wiggans, George. Calculation and delivery of US genomic evaluations for dairy cattle 
Wright, Jan. Multi-trait, multi-breed conception rate evaluation [poster presentation] 

ICAR / Interbull Meeting, May 2014
VanRaden, Paul. Genotypes are useful for more than genomic evaluation

Advancing Dairy Cattle Genetics: Genomics and Beyond, February 2014
VanRaden, Paul. Impact of genomics on genetic improvement 

2013

Interbull Annual Meeting, August 2013
Sun, Chuanyu. Increasing long term response by selecting for favorable minor alleles 
VanRaden, Paul. Measuring genomic pre-selection in theory and in practice 

ADSA – ASAS Joint Annual Meeting, July 2013
Sun, Chuanyu. Mating programs including genomic relationships and dominance effects 

UMD Animal Science Seminar, April 2013
VanRaden, Paul. Computation of large-scale genomic evaluations 
VanRaden, Paul. Global Impact of genomic selection in dairy cattle 
Wiggans, George. Genetic improvement program for dairy cattle 

2012

ADSA – AMPA – ASAS – CSAS – WSASAS Joint Annual Meeting, July 2012
Null, Dan. Fine mapping and discovery of recessive mutations that cause abortions in dairy cattle [poster presentation] 
Tooker, Mel. Methods to include foreign information in national evaluations 
VanRaden, Paul. Iterative combination of national phenotype, genotype, pedigree, and foreign information 
Wright, Jan. Adjustment of selection index coefficients and polygenic variance to improve regressions and reliability of genomic evaluations [poster presentation] 

Interbull Annual Meeting, May 2012
VanRaden, Paul. Reliability increases from combining 50,000- and 777,000-marker genotypes from 4 countries 

Interbull Genomics Workshop, February 2012
VanRaden, Paul. Avoiding bias from genomic pre-selection in converting daughter information across countries

Plant and Animal Genome Conference, January 2012
Adams, Heather. Identification of a nonsense mutation in APAF1 that is causal for a decrease in reproductive efficiency in dairy cattle

2011

Interbull Annual Meeting, August 2011
VanRaden, Paul. Reporting of haplotypes with recessive effects on fertility 

ADSA/ASAS Joint Annual Meeting, July 2011
Null, Dan. Genomic imputation and evaluation using 1074 high density Holstein genotypes [poster presentation] 
Olson, Katie. Changes in the use of young bulls [poster presentation] 
Olson, Katie. Impacts of inclusion of foreign data in genomic evaluation of dairy cattle 
Tooker, Mel. Properties of different density genotypes used in dairy cattle evaluation 
VanRaden, Paul. Overview of current genomic selection in dairy cattle populations 

2010

9th World Congress on Genetics Applied to Livestock Production, August 2010
VanRaden, Paul. Genomic evaluation with many more genotypes and phenotypes 

ADSA/PSA/AMPA/CSAS/ASAS Joint Annual Meeting, July 2010
Cole, John. Use of haplotypes to predict selection limits and Mendelian sampling 
Olson, Katie. Multibreed genomic evaluations in purebred dairy cattle 
Tooker, Mel. Gains in reliability from combining subsets of 500, 5,000, 50,000 or 500,000 genetic markers 
VanRaden, Paul. Filling missing genotypes using haplotypes 
Wiggans, George. Improved reliability approximation for genomic evaluations in the United States 

Interbull Meeting, May 2010
VanRaden, Paul. Combining different marker densities in genomic evaluation 

Council on Dairy Cattle Breeding Meeting / National Association of Animal Breeders Meeting, April 2010
Tooker, Mel. Imputation of cow genotypes and adjustment of PTAs 
Olson, Katie. Prediction of breed composition & multibreed genomic evaluations 
Olson, Katie. Predictions of breed composition using Holstein, Jersey, and Brown Swiss genotypes 
Tooker, Mel. Happy bulls, happy cows, haplotypes
VanRaden, Paul. Mixing different SNP densities 
VanRaden, Paul. Use young bulls more 
VanRaden, Paul. Why do we need more genotypes and phenotypes? 

Interbull Technical Workshop on Genomic Information in Genetic Evaluations, March 2010
VanRaden, Paul. GMACE implementation 

ENGALEC Dairy Conference, March 2010
Olson, Katie. Selección genómica en ganado lechero… Un año después [In Spanish]

2009

DSEC Meeting, October 2009
VanRaden, Paul. DSEC October 2009 

Interbull / EAAP Joint Session, August 2009
VanRaden, Paul. Development of genomic GMACE 
VanRaden, Paul. Future animal improvement programs applied to global populations 

ADSA/CSAS/ASAS Joint Annual Meeting, July 2009
Tooker, Mel. Can you believe those genomic evaluations for young bulls? 
VanRaden, Paul. National and international genomic evaluations for dairy cattle 

India Emerging Markets Conference, May 2009
Tooker, Mel. An introduction to genomics 
Tooker, Mel. An introduction to sire proofs and modeling 
Walton, Leigh. Milk recording data 

Council on Dairy Cattle Breeding Meeting, April 2009
Cole, John. Distribution and location of genetic effects for dairy traits 
Tooker, Mel. Can you believe those genomic evaluations for young bulls? 
VanRaden, Paul. National and international genomic evaluation methods 

Select Sires Annual Sire Conference, March 2009
VanRaden, Paul. Use of genomics for selecting sires 

Gordon Conference on Quantitative Genetics and Genomics, February 2009
VanRaden, Paul. Dairy cattle breeders have adopted genomic selection 

Interbull International Workshop on Genomic Information in Genetic Evaluations, January 2009
VanRaden, Paul. Benefits from cooperation in genomics 

2008

National Swine Improvement Federation Symposium, December 2008
VanRaden, Paul. Using genomic data to improve dairy cattle genetic evaluations 

AIPL Centennial Conference, October 2008
VanRaden, Paul. A century of AIPL and just getting started 
VanRaden, Paul. Genomic history and new genetic principles  

Canadian Dairy Cattle Improvement Industry Forum, September 2008
VanRaden, Paul. North American cooperation in genomic prediction 

ADSA/ASAS Joint Annual Meeting, July 2008 
Tooker, Mel. Effects of allele frequency estimation on genomic predictions and inbreeding coefficients 
VanRaden, Paul. Reliability of genomic predictions for North American dairy bulls 
VanRaden, Paul. Strategies to incorporate genomic prediction into population-wide genetic evaluations 

ICAR Session and Interbull Meeting, June 2008
Cole, John. Data collection ratings and best prediction of lactation yields 
Cole, John. Distribution and location of genetic effects for dairy traits 
VanRaden, Paul. Genomic data and cooperation result in faster progress  

NC-1037 Swine Geonomics Group, May 2008
VanRaden, Paul. Genomic selection in dairy cattle 

NAAB DSEC Meeting, April 2008
VanRaden, Paul. Genomic prediction results 
Wiggans, George. Routine genomic predictions 

National DHIA Annual Meeting & Educational Session, March 2008
VanRaden, Paul. New genomic predictions combine DNA and DHIA data 

2007

Animals and Bioengineering – A Consideration of Law, Ethics, and Science, November 2007
VanRaden, Paul. Improving animals each generation by selecting from the best gene sources 

Interbull Annual Meeting - Dublin, Ireland, August 2007
VanRaden, Paul. Genomic measures of relationship and inbreeding 

ADSA/PSA/AMPA/ASAS Joint Annual Meeting, July 2007
Cole, John. Estimation of yields for long lactations using best prediction 
Tooker, Mel. Methods to explain genomic estimates of breeding value 
VanRaden, Paul. Efficient estimation of breeding values from dense genomic data 

Genex / CRI Dairy Cattle Genetics Conference, June 2007
VanRaden, Paul. Research plans for genomics, crossbreeding, fertility, etc. 

NAAB DSEC Meeting, April 2007
VanRaden, Paul. Update on all-breed model, fertility, genomics 

W.E. Petersen Symposium, April 2007
VanRaden, Paul. Genetic evaluation using combined data from all breeds and crossbred cows 

New Techniques for Production and Reproduction in Cattle, March 2007
VanRaden, Paul. Selection for fertility in dairy cattle

2006

S-1008 Research Group Annual Meeting, October 2006
VanRaden, Paul. AIPL contributions to S-1008 

8th World Congress on Genetics Applied to Livestock Production, August 2006
VanRaden, Paul. Predicting genetic interactions within and across breeds 

Joint ADSA/ASAS Annual Meeting, July 2006
Tooker, Mel. Revised Estimates of Lifetime Net Merit for Dairy Breeds and Breed Crosses 
VanRaden, Paul. Genetic evaluations for mixed breed populations 

Interbull Annual Meeting, Kuopio, Finland, June 2006
VanRaden, Paul. Normality and skewness of genetic evaluations 

NAAB DSEC and IMC Meeting, April 2006
VanRaden, Paul. 2006 net merit revision

Select Sires Sire Committee Meeting, March 2006
VanRaden, Paul. Stillbirth, productive life, and net merit update 

Interbull Technical Workshop, Wageningen, Netherlands, March 2006
VanRaden, Paul. Fertility trait economics and correlations with other traits 

2005

Conference on Dairy Cattle Fertility: Health, Management, and Genetics, October 2005
VanRaden, Paul. Selection for fertility in dairy cattleFertilità e selezione genetica nelle vacche da latte [in Italian] 

S-1008 Research Group Annual Meeting, October 2005
VanRaden, Paul. Genetic evaluation of mixed breed populations 

Joint ADSA/ASAS/CSAS Annual Meeting, July 2005
Cole, John. Genetic evaluation and best prediction of lactation persistency 
Tooker, Mel. Effect of herd by sire interaction variance on genetic evaluations 
VanRaden, Paul. Productive life including all lactations, longer lactations, and calf value 

Beef Improvement Federation Research Symposium and Annual Meeting, July 2005
VanRaden, Paul. An example from dairy cattle selection: The net merit index 

Interbull Annual Meeting - Uppsala, Sweden, June 2005
VanRaden, Paul. Inbreeding adjustments and effect on genetic trend estimates 

NAAB DSEC Meeting, April 2005
VanRaden, Paul. Update on inbreeding, herd by sire effects, and new traits 

2004

S-1008 Research Group Annual Meeting, October 2004
VanRaden, Paul. Planned changes to models and trait definitions 

Joint ADSA/ASAS/PSA Annual Meeting, July 2004
Miller, Bob. Contribution of inbreeding and recessive defects to early embryo loss [poster presentation] 
Tooker, Mel. Heterosis and breed differences for daughter pregnancy rate of crossbred dairy cows 
VanRaden, Paul. Genetic base and trait definition update 
Wiggans, George. Accounting for differences in rate of maturity in yield evaluations 
Wright, Jan. Merit of obtaining genetic evaluations of milk yield for each parity on Holstein bulls [poster presentation] 

Interbull Annual Meeting - Sousse, Tunisia, May 2004
VanRaden, Paul. Choice of scales for delivery of genetic evaluations to the public 

NAAB DSEC Meeting, April 2004
VanRaden, Paul. NAAB update:Base change, udder health, longevity, fertility 

Interbull Technical Committee Meeting, Uppsala, Sweden, January 2004
VanRaden, Paul. Estimates of genetic correlations when evaluations of both parents are available

2003

National Dairy Genetics Workshop, Raleigh, NC, October 2003
VanRaden, Paul. Genetic evaluations for fitness and fertility in the US and other nations 

Joint ADSA/ASAS Annual Meeting, June 2003
Kuhn, Melvin. Use of early lactation days open records for genetic evaluation of cow fertility 
Tooker, Mel. Quality of data included in genetic evaluations for daughter pregnancy rate 
VanRaden, Paul. Definition of traits and comparison of models for cow fertility 
Wiggans, George. Standardization of lactation records for variance of Medelian sampling to reduce bias in evaluations of bull dams 

NDHIA Annual Meeting, March 2003
VanRaden, Paul. Genetic evaluation of cow fertility using DHIA records 

Interbull Technical Workshop, March 2003
Powell, Rex. Correlation of longevity evaluation with other trait evaluations from 14 countries 
VanRaden, Paul. Comparison of longevity and fertility trait definitions in theory and simulation

2002

NAAB IMC/IP Meeting, October 2002
VanRaden, Paul. Genetic evaluation of cow fertilty expressed as pregnancy rate 

7th World Congress on Genetics Applied to Livestock Production, August 2002
VanRaden, Paul. Selection of dairy cattle for lifetime profit 

Joint ADSA/ASAS Annual Meeting, July 2002
VanRaden, Paul. Correlations among measures of dairy cattle fertility and longevity
Wiggans, George. Detection and adjustment of abnormal test-day yields 

National Association of Animal Breeder’s Dairy Trade Mission Tour, June 2002
VanRaden, Paul. Economic merit of crossbred and purebred US dairy cattle 
VanRaden, Paul. Extreme inbreeding at Beltsville, 1912–1949 
VanRaden, Paul. Longevity and fertility  

Interbull Annual Meeting, May 2002
VanRaden, Paul. Properties of international longevity evaluations and correlations with other traits 

NAAB Dairy Sire Evaluation Committee Meeting, April 2002
Philpot, Jill. Extreme deviations 
VanRaden, Paul. Dams of sons report 
VanRaden, Paul. Extreme inbreeding at Beltsville, 1912–1949 
VanRaden, Paul. Measures of fertility: Heritabilities and genetic correlations 
VanRaden, Paul. Revision and use of termination codes

2001

NAAB Dairy Sire Evaluation Committee Meeting, October 2001
VanRaden, Paul. Cow fertility and effect on longevity 
VanRaden, Paul. Implications of crossbreeding on dairy cattle improvement 

International Animal Agriculture and Food Science Conference, July 2001
Powell, Rex. Possible global scale for ranking dairy bulls by blending national rankings 
VanRaden, Paul. Heterosis and breed differences for yield and somatic cell scores of US dairy cattle in the 1990s

2000

ADSA Annual Meeting, July 2000
VanRaden, Paul. Methods to combine information from separate sources

1999

ADSA Annual Meeting, June 1999
VanRaden, Paul. Adjustment of breeding values for past and future inbreeding

 

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