Table 1. National evaluation data considered in the Interbull routine evaluation
for dairy production traits (May 2002)
	national evaluation				number of records for milk yield by breed
	month				Brown
Country	year	h2	model	Ayrshire	Swiss	Guernsey	Holstein		Jersey	Simmental
Australia	4-02	.25	AM	353		103	3362		759
Austria	5-02	.27-.30	AM MT		1234					3265
Belgium	5-02	.30	AM				1093
Canada	5-02	.31-.42	AM TD	410	57	62	5144		225
Czech Rep.	3-02	.32-.35	AM MT				1510			4794
Denmark	4-02	.30	AM	1406			4491		1523
Denmark	4-02	.30	AM				142	*
Estonia	4-02	.23-.27	AM TD				242
Finland	4-02	.33-.44	AM TD	2208			626
France	4-02	.30	AM		138		8258			2130	**
France	4-02	.30	AM							171	***
France	4-02	.30	AM				84	****
Germany	3-02	.30-.39	AM TD	169			10687		19
Germany	5-02	.26-.30	AM MT		1785					8872
Hungary	5-02	.20-.25	AM				992			79
Ireland	5-02	.35	AM				640
Israel	2-02	.25	AM				559
Italy	4-02	.30	AM				4004		16
Italy	5-02	.26-.29	AM		775
Italy	1-02	.29-.33	AM							572
Netherlands	5-02	.51-.64	AM TD		39		5915		20	37
New Zealand	4-02	.28-.35	AM	563	18	48	2739		2007
Norway	6-01	.25	SM	2080
Poland	4-02	.20-.26	AM MT				3639
Rep. South Afr	4-02	.19-.35	AM	43		27	456		217
Slovenia	1-02	.21-.28	AM		173		75			260
Spain	1-02	.28	AM				822
Sweden	4-02	.30	AM	2402			1323
Switzerland	4-02	.30-.36	AM TD				503	*****
Switzerland	4-02	.34-.36	AM TD		1484
Switzerland	5-02	.34-.36	AM TD				566	******		1770
Unit. Kingdom	4-02	.35	AM	211		146	2917		174
Unit. States	5-02	.30-.35	AM	247	429	564	17364		1793
No. Records				10092	6132	950	78143		6753	21950
No. Bulls				9694	5473	797	69810		6027	20716
Publishable Proofs				9531	5461	796	68531		6022	20146
AM=Animal Model; AMMT=Animal Model with lactations as correlated traits;
AM TD= Animal Test Day Model; SM=Sire/Maternal Grandsire Model
* Danish Red & White in the Holstein evaluation of Interbull
** French Montbeliarde in the Simmental evaluation of Interbull
*** French Simmental in the Simmental evaluation of Interbull
**** French Red Holstein in the Holstein evaluation of Interbull
***** Swiss Black & White Holstein in the Holstein evaluation of Interbull
****** Swiss Red Holstein in the Holstein evaluation of Interbull