NBDI

NAV organized an NBDI webinar on 4 December. The webinar attracted over 70 participants. At the end of the event, participants from each country engaged in active discussions in country-specific groups, using their own languages.

Links to the presentations are below and the recording is here: NBDI webinar

What is NBDI – Terhi Vahlsten, NAV

Does NBDI work? Results from Finland – Terhi Vahlsten, NAV

More meat on the bone – Viktoria Ekenberg, SLU

Extra information on top of NBDI in Denmark – Jakob Lykke Voergaard, NAV

Strategy: How to use beef semen in dairy herds – Sara Petersen, Viking Danmark

The fourth NAV routine evaluation of beefxdairy breeding values took place as scheduled and NAV Beef Search is updated with new beefxdairy indices.

In this evaluation youngstock survival was included in Nordic BeefxDairy index (NBDI). At the same time the economical weights of all NBDI traits were updated. These changes cause significant reranking between the bulls and for many of the bulls the NBDI value changes several index points.

Read more about the new NBDI:

• NAV newsletter
• Youngstock survival included in Nordic BeefxDairy Index
• Total Merit Index (NBDI) for beef sires used for dairy cattle