World first for beef with new index to select disease-resistant cattle

Updated May 24 2019 - 7:45am, first published 7:30am
New index to select more disease-resistant cattle hailed a world first
New index to select more disease-resistant cattle hailed a world first

In what's been hailed as a world first for the beef industry, research by Angus Australia and CSIRO has resulted in the development of the breeding index value, ImmuneDEX.

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