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Which journal entries have the lowest fraud risk?

Please list a reproduction EPD, provide the abbreviation and what it stands for.

You are breeding a breeding a homozygous black bull to a heterozygous black cow. What are the possible outcomes for their offspring in regards to coat color? Please include phenotype and genotype in your answer. 

Which of the following is an objective of assessing a client’s business risk?

What type of accuracy number will give you more confidence in a certain EPD? 

What is brucellosis and what do you vaccinate our heifers with to prevent it? 

What is the benefit of pelvic measuring our heifers? *Extra Credit if you can tell me what the tool is called that is used to measure**

      We have a heifer that is 12 months old and weighs 900 lbs with a measurement of 15cm by 13cm.  What is her pelvic area? [1] What is her pelvic area/calf BW ratio? [2] What is the ideal weight of calf with no problems? [3]

Please list a carcass EPD, provide the abbreviation and what it stands for.

List a concern we face today in the beef industry and describe why it is a concern to others. How can you do your part to combat this concern?