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Predicted Transmitting Ability versus Breeding Value
The field of dairy cattle genetics uses two “languages”, Predicted Transmitting Ability (PTA) and Breeding Value. Evaluations from the US are expressed in PTA’s while most other countries use Breeding...
Renegade is Royalty
S-S-I PR Renegade is a former winner of the Outcross Sire of the Year title, being sired by the French bull Jaltaoak and out of a Millington daughter. Further back...
Focus on... November 2024
At CRV the very popular Delta Launch-PP-Red has recently been joined by the newly proven Delta Everton in being marketed as high-conception rate sires. Everton is sired by De Leenhorst...
Holstein Marketplace Sires: Providing an Option for Breeders to Control Their Own Destiny
The US Holstein Association established it’s Marketplace Sires program in January 2019. The program now offers an exciting range of breeder-owned sires, adding some intriguing options to the semen market.
Unique Overview The Leading Jersey Herdbooks Worldwide
At a time when the number of dairy farms and the number of dairy cattle worldwide are dropping, the Jersey breed is defying this trend. To give perspective, this overview...
Lone-Pine in Canada: Where Production and Type Combine
Intermediate and Reserve Grand Champion at the Canadian Royal in 2023 was Lone-Pine Jordan Booster, while Reserve Grand Champion at the All-American Show 2023 in Louisville was Lone-Pine Nighttrain Lula....
Australia’s Cairnbrae Daisy Family: Combining Elite Indexes with Show-Winning Type
Cairnbrae Valentino Daisy 11 was Grand Champion at the 2019 International DairyWeek and at the time was the Nr.1 BPI cow in Australia – the only cow of any breed...
Focus on... October 2024
Use a polled bull and half his calves will not require dehorning, but using PP bulls means you will never have to dehorn a calf again. Macaby-PP is one of...
Intriguing Sires DNA - October 2024
Campbell is the Nr.4 gRZG bull in Germany, and is the Nr.1 son of Comeback, who combines somewhat different bloodlines (Commitment-Entity-Spectre) with strong health traits and pleasing type. Campbell is...
Zoetis: Bringing Precision Agriculture to the Dairy Industry
Over the past 15 years the world of dairy cattle breeding has moved to a whole new level of sophistication, capitalizing on the ability to look directly at the genes...
It’s a Barbie World: Barbie Goes Global
It was just 20 years ago that Regancrest-PR Barbie, bred at Regancrest Farms in Iowa, emerged as the Nr.1 PTAT cow of the breed. However, Barbie transmitted much more than...
ABS Global: The NuEra Genetics Beef Product Line
Using beef genetics on lower genetic-quality dairy cows has been a common practice in many countries for years. Dairy farmers have recognised that producing a beef cross calf generates more...