December 1999
CLRC ENTERS ALLIANCE WITH B.I.O.
General Manager Ron Black and Systems Manager Glenn Clark, recently signed a contract with Beef Improvement Ontario (BIO), under which CLRC will deliver, and promote, BIO’s beef cattle performance recording services. CLRC has entered into this alliance with the goal of providing a service whereby breeder members of CLRC’s membre association in the beef section will be able to submit the performance data for their animals, and their applications to register those animals, to the same place, thus simplifying the process.
CLRC’s objective is both to assist breeders to obtain information that helps them in the evaluation of their animals, and to provide each breed association, as a result, with important data that will assist in promoting the strengths of their particular breed in the marketplace, and in improving the weaknesses.The BIO data collection software currently in the final stages of being upgraded will be installed at CLRC by early January. This will permit CLRC to collect weight data from breeder either electronically or on paper, calculate adjusted weights, and produce performance and production reports.
In addition for those submitting full data, data collected will be transmitted to BIO for calculation within herd EPD’s (interim evaluation), and on an annual basis, all data will be transferred to BIO for the national evaluations calculations. The results of both sets of calculations will then be transferred back to CLRC.CLRC also intends to connect the performance database to our pedigree database, with the aim of adding performance data to registration certificates. The exact figures to be published will be determined by each association.
Detailed information regarding the program will be forwarded to all beef cattle associations in the near future, and it is hoped that a goodly number of associations will choose to participate. Costs to the individual breeder have not yet been set, but will be kept as low as possible to encourage participation.
CANADIAN BLONDE D’AQUITAINE JOINS CLRC.
The Board of Directors and General Manger of Canadian Livestock Records Corporation are very pleased to announce that the Canadian Blonde d’Aquitaine Association is joining CLRC. Programming and the transfer of the Association’s data from the current registry office in Calgary will occur shortly, and CLRC will begin to process Blonde d’Aquitaine registration applications early in 2000.
Contributing factors to the decision by the Canadian Blonde d’Aquitaine Association to join CLRC, (actually re-join, since the Association did belong to the former CNLSR in 1973 and 1974) included the newly signed alliance with Beef Improvement Ontario, and CLRC’s members and pedigrees on the internet.
Everyone at CLRC warmly welcomes this association and its members, and we look forward to serving them in the years to come.
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