Table 4.

Thresholds for the extra annual cost (in K€/yr) that delimit areas of interest to improve the pBLUP scheme or implement the genomic scheme, for two breeding goals

Cost of phenotyping additional sibs	Relative weights on traits 1 and 2 in the breeding goal (1)
	1:1			1:3
	Genotyping cost
	Low	Medium	High	Low	Medium	High
Low	160	300	450	145	350	530
Medium	145	270	410	145	250	350
High	145	250	370	145	250	350

¹See Table 2 for a description of the breeding goals; below the threshold: improving the pBLUP breeding scheme resulted in higher genetic trends for the population breeding goal than implementing genomic evaluations; above the threshold: implementing genomic evaluations resulted in higher genetic trends for the population breeding goal than improving the pBLUP breeding scheme.