Sheep Genetics is the national genetic information and evaluation service for the meat and wool sectors of the sheep industry.  The main purpose of Sheep Genetics is to improve the quality, scope and utilisation of across-flock and where appropriate across breed genetic information for the Australian sheep industry.

Sheep Genetics provides a common national language in the form of Australian Sheep Breeding Values (ASBVs). These are available across flock and, where applicable, across breeds.  ASBVs, under-pinned by quality assurance procedures, are updated twice monthly for a range of commercially relevant traits addressing all sectors of the sheep industry.

ASBVs are designed to be used by ram breeders and commercial producers to compare the genetic potential of rams and ewes for a range of industry agreed traits, independent of the environment and location.  ASBVs are delivered through LAMBPLAN and MERINOSELECT, which have been developed for the prime lamb and wool sectors respectively.