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Research and innovation are essential to ensure continuous improvements needed for a sustainable and competitive livestock sector. The breeding goal of farm animals has changed over the years. Many cattle breeds were originally dual purpose, used for milk and meat production and occasionally draught purposes. Even now a lot of breeds are dual purpose breeds, combining relatively high milk production with good meat production thus providing significant extra revenue for the farmers. Beef recording and specialisation into beef breeds has mainly developed in the last 40 years " starting in the 1960s with weight recording on farm, later followed by performance testing in test stations allowing direct comparison of animals. Some poultry firms, starting from having only production characteristics like carcass quality in the breeding goal, have moved towards incorporating taste and health, and later also welfare in the breeding goals as well. This book is specially design for the undergraduate student in Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine.

Biostatistics has a practical impact first of all in the area of research and development in medical sciences. It is also important in the area of clinical veterinary practice and the sphere of hygiene and ecology during the animal provenance food inspection. Statistics education is particularly focused on the ability to solve specific problems of veterinary medicine with the use of biostatistical methods. Furthermore, it is focused on practical skills at some common and also special PC software that are helpful for statistical calculations and tasks. Biostatistics and Biometry Biostatistics is the application of statistical methods to the problems of biology, including human biology, medicine, public health, agriculture, veterinary and genetics. This book was written to serve students and researchers of the animal sciences, with the primary purpose of helping them to learn about and apply appropriate experimental designs and statistical methods. Statistical methods applied to biological sciences are known as biostatistics or biometrics, and they have their origins in agricultural research. This book will be of interest for those studying agricultural, or biological and veterinary sciences.