Looking Up New EPDs for Commercial Bull Buyers
The NALF-DigitalBeef platform makes it easy for
commercial bull buyers to look up new EPDs.
This makes it faster and easier to become familiar
with a bull’s information before buying.
The Animal Search feature on the NALF-
DigitalBeef allows you to quickly look up
information on the animal’s pedigree, EPDs,
performance data, ownership, and more.
There are two ways to look up pedigrees and EPDs
for animals in the NALF database: 1) Searching by
certain EPD criteria 2) Searching by Animal. Both
can be accessed either from clicking the “Animal
Search” box at the top of the NALF home page
(image 1) or by going directly to the animals
search features at limousin.digitalbeef.com.
Searching by EPD Criteria (Image 2):
• First you need to decide the minimum and/
or maximum level of EPDs and accuracy
that meet your breeding objective.
• Next, enter those numbers into the boxes
for the EPDs that are important to you.
• Toward the bottom of the search box,
you can chose to receive males, females
or both in your search results, select the
appropriate gender, and then click “search.”
• All the registered animals that match your
criteria will pop up as your search results.
• If you click the registration number
(highlighted in red) you will be taken to the
animal’s page where you can view a variety
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of information including; pedigree, EPDs,
accuracies, and rankings for a variety of traits.
Image 1. Click “Animal Search” from the NALF homepage
to access animal and EPD look-up features.
Image 2. Searching with given EPD search criteria.