Plan To Better Beef Production
(New Zealand Press Association)
INVERCARGILL, July 19. Details of a national recording scheme, designed to help breeders of sheep and beef cattle to improve the production of New Zealand’s major breeds, were outlined by Mr I. M. Cairney, executive officer of the Sheep and Beef Cattle Survey, in Invercargill today.
Mr Cairney told a farmi’ seminar that performance re- 1 Cording had been used with 1 notable success by the dairy, 11 poultry and pigmeat Indus; I tries for many years. “Sheep and beef cattle 1 breeders can’t afford to re-1 main out of this act," he said, s There was no need for breeders to fear that theiri role would be taken over by i computers. 1 “The computer is simply a i a tool to make this sort of < job easier,” Mr fibirney said.,<
i “Animal breeding will continue to depend on the skill, knowledge and judgment of the individual breeder for | success.” i The aim with sheep breeding would be to improve lambing percentage and wool and meat production. “These are the three points we must select for,” Mr Cairney said. “It is imperative that we are not side-tracked into consideration of fancy show points unrelated to production.” •
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31116, 20 July 1966, Page 14
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206Plan To Better Beef Production Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31116, 20 July 1966, Page 14
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