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Consistent Results a Select Sires Trademark


PLAIN CITY, Ohio, March 29, 2005 — Select Sires owns more Top-100 TPI™ high-reliability sires than any other A.I. company. Four of these bulls exceed 97% Rel. and each is a graduate of the Program for Genetic Advancement™ (PGA™).

"Select Sires operates the largest young sire sampling system which generates the most-reliable bulls in A.I.," says David Thorbahn, general manager, Select Sires. "PGA is designed so no more than 25 percent of a young sire's semen goes to any one geographic area. We're the only stud able to do this and it gives Select Sires an advantage in stability of bull proofs. Consistency across summaries means producers are getting the daughter performance they expect when using proven graduates of PGA. Consistent Results™ is the reason why more breeders choose Select Sires."

Nearly 60 Percent in Select's Lineup at 90% Reliability

7HO5157 Regancrest Elton DURHAM-ET*CV is among the breed's Top-100 TPI (+1593) sires and at 99% Rel.-M is the breed's highest type specialist at +2.73 PTAT. He joins 7HO3707 Paradise-R Cleitus MATHIE*CV, 7HO4213 Robthom INTEGRITY-ET*TV, and 7HO6250 Ricecrest EMERSON-ET* TV, BL as perennial favorites at Select, with all four bulls having highly reliable sons in Select's lineup. This 87-bull lineup includes 16 sires at 99% Rel., 24 sires at 97% Rel., and 50 sires at 90% Rel.

Also at 99% Rel.-M, 7HO5484 Ricecrest BOONE-ET*TV is No. 11 TPI (+1706) and adds 411 daughters. He is one of the top 20 in the breed for fat and protein yield with solid PTA values of +1,503M +.05%F +70F +.04%P +55P. He is also among the highest 10 in active A.I. with profitability indexes of +522 Net Merit Dollars (NM$) +541 Cheese Merit Dollars (CM$) and +487 Fluid Merit Dollars (FM$).

7HO5851 Sikkema-Star Air MAGNA-ET*TV moved up the Top-100 TPI rankings with the addition of 300 second-crop daughters and now is among the breed's best 50 at +1629 TPI (98%Rel.). A highly reliable calving-ease specialist, he is one of the highest 20 at Select Sires for fat (+55), protein (+44), Net Merit (+400) and Productive Life (+1.5).

New to the Top-100 list at 99% Rel. is 7HO5605 Ladys-Manor WARRIOR-ET*TV (+1592 TPI). He added more than 1,200 daughters to his production summary - now with 2,381 progeny in 839 herds - and has improved in all performance categories while maintaining a favorable type pattern as indicated by PTA values of +1,399M +67F +31P +366 NM$ +346 CM$ +404 FM$ +1.9 PL +.95T (94% Rel.) +1.07 Udder Composite (UD).

No. 1 in the breed for type with high reliability, 7HO5841 Sikkema-Star-W HI METRO-ET*CV is the only +3.00 PTAT (94% Rel.) sire on the active-A.I. list after the genetic base change. With more than 200 daughters in his type proof, this 7HO3257 HIGHLIGHT Mr Mark Cinder-ET son offers extreme type composite values of +3.09 UD, +1.54 Feet-and-Legs Composite (FL), +2.35 Body Composite (BD), and +2.30 Dairy Composite (D) at 94% Rel.

Also the Best in Canada

With +2,429 PTAM, 7HO5708 Fustead Emory BLITZ-ET*TV (EX-94) is No. 3 in the United States for milk and the highest production sire in the breed at 99% Rel-M. He also has the distinction of being the industry's first sire to simultaneously rank No. 1 in Canada for Lifetime Profit Index (LPI), milk yield and type. A 7HO3948 MJR Blackstar EMORY-ET*TV son, he gained notoriety with an LPI index of +2412, a milk proof of +3361 EBV-kg (95% Rel.), and a conformation value of +19 (94% Rel.).

Among Canada's Top-50 LPI sires, EMERSON is one of only two sires at 99% Rel. and ranks first with a LPI of +1596. Now with 2,434 Canadian daughters in 875 herds, EMERSON offers solid +1750 EBV-kg Milk, +67 EBV-kg Protein and +53 EBV-kg Fat, ranking this customer-satisfaction sire No. 44 for LPI. His son, 7HO6794 Ricecrest EMMETT-ET*TV, debuts as the No. 14 sire on the Top-100 LPI list at +1823 (85% Rel.).

Based in Plain City, Ohio, Select Sires Inc., is North America's largest A.I. organization and is comprised of 10 farmer-owned and -controlled cooperatives. As the industry leader, it provides highly fertile semen as well as excellence in service and programs to achieve its basic objective of supplying dairy and beef producers with North America's best genetics at a reasonable price.

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™Program for Genetic Advancement, PGA and Consistent Results are trademarks of Select Sires Inc.

Source: 2/05 U.S. Department of Agriculture, Interbull, and Holstein Association USA Inc.





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