Advance your commercial herd
Capitalize on your investment in registered Angus genetics with commercial tools like GeneMax® Advantage™. With greater accuracy and precision than ever before, you can pinpoint economically relevant traits and advance your herd to the next level.
Fueled by producer data.
Benchmark your herd against a population of over 95,000 GeneMax® Advantage™ tested commercial females, and what do you get? The value of GeneMax® Advantage™ trait score predictions has never been greater. Improving the quality and marketability of your commercial herd begins with genomic data.
GeneMax® Advantage™
Unlock the value of your herd’s genetic potential. GeneMax® Advantage™, a commercial genomic test, helps avoid costly mistakes by informing your selection of the most advantageous heifers and breeding them strategically to produce valuable calves and superior replacements.
GeneMax® Advantage™ was created through a collaboration between AGI®, Certified Angus Beef and Zoetis. It is intended for use in commercial Angus females (75% registered Angus genetics or greater).
Pricing: $28.00 per test
SCORES YOU CAN USE
GeneMax® Advantage™ delivers three economic index scores that allow for easier, more dependable decision-making. With the addition of $Value indexes$ in fall 2024, you will be able to even better align bull battery selection decisions with breeding decisions of your commercial herd to make data-driven genetic progress. Have questions about the approved tools for sample collection and submission?
Cow Advantage Score
When looking to accelerate maternal progress, look to this score. It predicts differences in profitability from heifer development, pregnancy and calving to the sale of weaned progeny.
Traits include birth weight (BW), calving ease maternal (CEM), weaning weight (WW), yearling height (YH), maternal milk (MILK), heifer pregnancy (HP), mature weight (MW), foot conformation – claw and angle composite (CAC), docility (DOC), and cow cost.
Feeder Advantage Score
This score Predicts differences in net return of feeder calf progeny due to growth, feed efficiency and CAB carcass merit, because you’re in the business of growing cattle.
Traits include postweaning gain (Gain), feed to gain (F:G), carcass weight (CW), marbling (MARB), ribeye area (RE), fat, and tenderness (TND).
Total Advantage Score
You know your herd females need to be the full package. This score predicts differences in profitability from genetic merit across all economically relevant traits captured in the Cow and Feeder Advantage index scores.
As a composite score pulling from 16 traits, you can count on GeneMax Advantage’s Total Advantage Score as a helpful tool when looking to maintain balance across your herd.
Cow Advantage Score
When looking to accelerate maternal progress, look to this score. It predicts differences in profitability from heifer development, pregnancy and calving to the sale of weaned progeny.
Traits include birth weight (BW), calving ease maternal (CEM), weaning weight (WW), yearling height (YH), maternal milk (MILK), heifer pregnancy (HP), mature weight (MW), foot conformation – claw and angle composite (CAC), docility (DOC), and cow cost.
Feeder Advantage Score
This score Predicts differences in net return of feeder calf progeny due to growth, feed efficiency and CAB carcass merit, because you’re in the business of growing cattle.
Traits include postweaning gain (Gain), feed to gain (F:G), carcass weight (CW), marbling (MARB), ribeye area (RE), fat, and tenderness (TND).
Total Advantage Score
You know your herd females need to be the full package. This score predicts differences in profitability from genetic merit across all economically relevant traits captured in the Cow and Feeder Advantage index scores.
As a composite score pulling from 16 traits, you can count on GeneMax Advantage’s Total Advantage Score as a helpful tool when looking to maintain balance across your herd.
