Table 4. National evaluation data considered in the Interbull
evaluation for dairy production traits (January 2009). Evaluation model summary
 
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Country Breed(s) milk fat prot model

Australia RDC GUE HOL JER .25 .25 .25 ST R AM
Belgium# HOL .38 .43 .41 MT ML RR TD AM
Canada RDC .38 .34 .37 MT ML RR TD AM
BSW .41 .36 .38 - " -
GUE .41 .35 .38 - " -
HOL .41 .34 .37 - " -
JER .44 .39 .41 - " -
Czech Republic HOL .39 .38 .37 ST ML RR TD AM
SIM .33 .32 .31 ST ML RR TD AM
DFS ### RDC .39 .36 .31 MT ML RR TD AM
HOL .46 .42 .39 - " -
JER .44 .35 .38 - " -
Estonia RDC .49 .48 .48 ST ML RR TD AM
HOL .49 .48 .48
France BSW HOL RHOL SIM MON .30 .30 .30 ST R  AM
Germany/Austria RDC HOL JER .49 .48 .48 ST ML RR TD AM
BSW .46 .41 .39 ST ML RR TD AM
SIM .43 .38 .34 - " -
Hungary HOL SIM .25 .20 .20 ST R  AM
Ireland HOL SIM .35 .35 .35 ST R  AM
Israel HOL .43 .52 .41 ST ML AM
Italy BSW .20 .14 .18 ST R  FR TD AM
HOL .31 .29 .30 MT ML RR TD AM
JER .30 .30 .30 ST R  AM
SIM .16 .15 .17 ST R  FR TD AM
Japan HOL .32 .31 .27 ST R  AM
Latvia RDC HOL .49 .48 .48 ST ML RR TD AM
Netherlands## BSW HOL JER SIM .57 .58 .50 ST ML RR TD AM
New Zealand RDC BSW GUE HOL JER .36 .33 .31 ST ML RR TD AM
Norway RDC .28 .21 .24 ST R  AM
Poland HOL .33 .29 .29 ST ML RR TD AM
Rep. South Africa RDC .19 .12 .17 MT R  FR TD AM
GUE .24 .14 .19 MT R  FR TD AM
HOL .18 .11 .14 MT R  FR TD AM
JER .24 .20 .23 MT R  FR TD AM
Slovak Republic HOL .31 .25 .30 ST-RR-TD-BLUP-AM
SIM .34 .26 .32 ST-RR-TD-BLUP-AM
Slovenia BSW .28 .21 .24 ST R  FR TD AM
HOL .24 .19 .21 - " -
SIM .30 .24 .26 - " -
Spain HOL .28 .28 .28 ST R  AM
Switzerland BSW .36 .34 .35 MT ML RR TD AM
RHOL SIM .41 .36 .36 MT ML RR TD AM
HOL .36 .30 .32 MT ML RR TD AM
United Kingdom RDC HOL .55 .47 .51 ST ML RR TD AM
GUE JER .55 .48 .51 ST ML RR TD AM
United States RDC GUE HOL .30 .30 .30 ST R  AM
BSW JER .30 .30 .30 - " -

# Walloon part of Belgium
## The Netherlands + Flemish part of Belgium
### Denmark + Finland + Sweden
RHOL = Red Holstein; MON = Montbeliarde
AM=Animal Model; SM=Sire/Maternal Grandsire Model
ST ML=Model with lactations as correlatedtraits;
MT=Multiple-traits; MT SL=Multiple-trait model with single lactation;
TD=Test Day Model; FR=Fixed regression; RR=Random regression