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[email protected] • www.maine-anjou.org The Official Spring 2007 Sire Summary Foreword Table of Contents The Spring 2007 Sire Summary represents the ninth official run Maine-Anjou National Cattle Evaluation..................................1 of the Multiple-Breed International Cattle Evaluation (MB-ICE) Criteria for Listing ....................................................................2 system, and the seventeenth edition of the Maine-Anjou National Possible EPD Change by Accuracy...........................................3 Sire Summary. Standard Errors of Prediction Table ..........................................3 This issue features carcass EPDs published for the Maine-Anjou What are EPDs? ........................................................................3 Example Listing & Trait Definition ..........................................4 breed. The carcass EPDs are listed in a special supplement to the Percentile Breakdown of Maine-Anjou EPDs ..........................5 Maine Anjou Sire Summary following the listing of Young Sires. Star Percentile Breakdown for AMAA .....................................7 The carcass EPDs are the result of the MB-ICE Carcass System, Maine-Anjou Genetic Trend .....................................................7 which has several key features making it extremely useful to Maine Percentile Breakdowns of MaineTainer EPDs ..........................8 Anjou breeders. First, the MB-ICE Carcass system is the