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Three CONVINCER Sons Bred in Wisconsin Enter A.I.

PLAIN CITY, Ohio, July 6, 2001 — Three Wa-Del CONVINCER sons from herds in Wisconsin have been chosen to enter Select Sires’ Program for Genetic Advancement (PGA) sire-sampling system. Based on their outstanding pedigrees, 7HO6726 Jeffrey-Way TRELLIS-ET, bred by Jeffrey and Kate Hendrickson, Belleville, Wis., 7HO6805 Emerald-Acr-SA TERRIFIC-ET, bred by Emerald Acres and Scott Armbrust, DePere, Wis., and 7HO6849 Sandy-Valley ROCKER-ET*TL, bred by David, Patrick, Frank, Jr. and Gregory Bauer, Scandinavia, Wis., are three of 315 Holstein bulls chosen from throughout the United States to enter the program in 2001. In addition to being sampled through PGA Cooperator herds, these young sires have been identified as Super Samplers. With this designation, their semen is available to all Holstein breeders.

On the maternal side, TRELLIS comes from two generations of Select Sires breeding. His dam, Jeffrey-Way Hunter Teardrop (VG-88), is a high testing, 2-year-old daughter of 7HO3847 Ameldin II Pontiac HUNTER*TL, 2-9 365d 37,770M 1,420F 1,154P. The grandam is an Excellent (91) daughter of 7HO980 Walkway Chief MARK*TL with four records more than 32,000 pounds of milk and lifetime milk production credits of 219,660 pounds of milk.

TERRIFIC’s dam Emerald-Acr-SA Tulip-ET (EX-94), 4-year-old daughter of Rothrock Tradition LEADMAN*TL with 41,203 pounds of milk, 1,651 pounds of fat and 1,455 pounds of protein. ROCKER’s grandam is Ricecrest Southwind Kaye-ET, the matriarch of the world-renowned Ricecrest breeding program in Pennsylvania. His dam is Kaye’s highest ranking daughter, Ricecrest Bwood Brianne-ET (VG-88) Dam of Merit with almost 40,000 pounds of milk at 1 year, 11 months of age.

Based in Plain City, Ohio, Select Sires Inc. is a federation of 10 farmer-owned and controlled cooperatives. It provides highly fertile semen as well as excellence in service and programs to achieve its basic objective of supplying livestock breeders with America’s best genetics at a reasonable price.

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