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. 2018 Dec 21;3(1):1–13. doi: 10.1093/tas/txy129

Table 7.

Least squares phenotypic mean and pooled SE for very high value cuts (VHVC), high value cuts (HVC), medium value cuts (MVC), low value cuts (LVC) and when adjusted to a fixed wholesale cut yield (YieldFIX) for very high, high, low, or very low terminal index animals categorized by herd type: all animals (All), animals just from dairy herds (Dairy), or animals just from beef herds (Beef)

Genetic merit group Herd type VHVC HVC MVC LVC
Yield, kg YieldFIX, kg Yield, kg YieldFIX, kg Yield, kg YieldFIX, kg Yield, kg YieldFIX, kg
Very high All 31.21a 26.71a 75.96a 63.73a 60.56a 52.97a 105.33a 87.23a
High All 29.24b 26.27bc 70.70b 62.63b 58.41b 53.27bc 100.47b 88.32b
Low All 28.32c 26.23b 67.70c 62.03c 57.00c 53.33c 97.54c 82.82c
Very low All 26.69d 26.23bd 62.83d 61.50d 54.50d 53.34dbc 92.08d 89.30d
SE 0.13 0.05 0.33 0.15 0.21 0.08 0.48 0.14
Very high Dairy 30.08a 26.46a 73.07a 63.26a 59.46a 53.16a 102.61a 87.60a
High Dairy 26.73b 25.80bc 64.37b 61.83b 55.66b 53.62b 93.80b 89.08b
Low Dairy 26.09c 25.90cd 62.17c 61.64b 54.26c 53.52b 91.02c 89.22b
Very low Dairy 25.44d 26.00d 60.12d 61.55b 52.98d 53.44b 88.32d 89.38b
SE 0.07 0.03 0.18 0.08 0.13 0.07 0.29 0.11
Very high Beef 32.35a 26.95a 78.84a 64.19a 61.66a 52.77a 108.05a 86.87a
High Beef 31.75b 26.74a 77.03b 63.44b 61.16a 52.92ab 107.13a 87.57b
Low Beef 30.55c 26.57b 73.22c 62.42c 59.73b 53.14bc 104.06b 88.42c
Very low Beef 27.95d 26.46cb 65.54d 61.44d 56.02c 53.24c 95.85c 89.21d
SE 0.11 0.06 0.27 0.12 0.19 0.09 0.42 0.14

a–dSuperscripts indicate the significance level between terminal index groups.