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* 1. What best describes the service(s) you provide to the sheep industry? (if you have more than one service choose the most dominant to base your answers on)

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* 2. Do you submit data to

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* 3. Would you like to see a Sheep Genetics Data Quality Grade system for

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LAMBPLAN
MERINOSELECT

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* 4. Do you or would you find the current Data Quality Grades used in LAMBPLAN to be

  Strongly agree Agree Neutral Disagree Strong disagree
Beneficial to your business
Beneficial to your clients business
Beneficial to your clients breeding program(s)

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* 5. What is or what would be your main use for the Data Quality Grades?

  Not a LAMBPLAN user Strongly agree Agree Neutral Disagree Strongly Disagree
Marketing rams for sale
Selecting outside genetics for use in client(s) breeding program
To maximise the accuracy of client breeding values
To ensure client data recording maintains industry standards

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* 6. What changes would you like to see to the current LAMBPLAN Data Quality Grade system?

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* 7. What components do you feel should separate Data Quality Grades?

  Strongly agree Agree Neutral Disagree Strongly disagree
Additional traits measured
The amount of information collected
The completeness of recording (eg % of drop)
Timeliness when data is submitted to Sheep Genetics
Combinations of the above

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* 8. Should Data Quality Grades be

  Strongly agree Agree Neutral Disagree Strongly disagree
Flock grades (as with LAMBPLAN now)
Trait grades
Combination of both

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* 9. How would you like to see data valued in the future?

  Strongly agree Agree Neutral Disagree Strongly disagree
Number of traits measured (core/additional traits)
Additional traits (eg WEC, SS, Birth Weight)
The percentage of animals measured in the drop
The precision of data collected
When data is submitted to Sheep Genetics (timeliness)
The amount of progeny per sire
Level of pedigree (eg Full pedigree)
Linkage
Correct management groups

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* 10. What incentives are required to encourage your clients participation in supplying "gold level" data to Sheep Genetics?

  Strongly agree Agree Neutral Disagree Strongly disagree
Payment for "gold level" data
Improved ASBV accuracy and quicker genetic gain
Marketing differential
Access to cheaper genomic tests

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* 11. Other comments and ideas.

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