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Select Sires Graduates Are Tops

PLAIN CITY, Ohio, August 9, 2005 — Select Sires graduated four bulls with Predicted Transmitting Ability for Type (PTAT) values higher than +2.00, including the second highest bull in the breed.

"7HO7004 Erbacres DAMION*TV is No. 2 in the breed with an impressive +2.92 PTAT (89% Rel.). The only higher-ranking Holstein is 7HO5841 Sikkema-Star-W HI METRO-ET*CV with a +2.96 PTAT (98% Rel.)," says Scott Culbertson, Holstein sire analyst, Select Sires. "DAMION has sired the best group of young-sire daughters I have ever seen, based on first-crop progeny including those of his sire, 7HO5157 Regancrest Elton DURHAM-ET."

As anticipated, DAMION graduated with a highly reliable proof based on 105 classified daughters in 65 herds. He is a line-bred DURHAM son from Regancrest Encore Dalhia-ET, a Very Good (89) 9HO1833 Marcrest ENCORE daughter. The next dam is Snow-N Denises Dellia (EX-95-2E-GMD-DOM). DAMION combines the frames of ENCORE with the udders and feet and legs of DURHAM. He is one of very few proven sires that are higher than +2.00 on each of the four Holstein composite scores with +2.37 Udder Composite (UD), +2.30 Feet-and-Legs Composite (FL), +2.80 Body Composite (BD), and +2.63 Dairy Composite (D). DAMION also is a proven calving ease (CE) sire with only 7 percent difficult births in heifers (DBH).

Also among the breed’s top new type improvers is 7HO7081 Jeffrey-Way TRYOUT*CV. At +2.51 PTAT (79% Rel.), this DURHAM son excels for composites with +2.61UD +1.65FL +1.56BD +1.55D. His dam is Jeffrey-Way Hunter Teardrop (EX-94-3E-DOM). She is the highest-scored 7HO3847 Ameldin II Pontiac HUNTER daughter and produced 7-0 365d 50,760M 4.0% 2,042F 3.0% 1,533P. The next dam is an Excellent (91-3E) daughter of 7HO980 Walkway Chief MARK. Finally TRYOUT has been named a HerdLife Builder™.

Ranking fifth at Select Sires for type, 7HO7071 LE-O La Emerson Classic-TW*TV stacks a Select Sires pedigree that has generated a balanced package of solid production (+1,269M, 86% Rel.) with customer-pleasing type (+2.27T, 84% Rel.). LE-O has a high +1630 Type-Production Index (TPI™) ranking him among the top 50 on Holstein’s Top-100 list. He is one of three proven 7HO6250 Ricecrest EMERSON-ET*BL*TV sons in the Select’s program. His dam, a 7HO4638 Ricecrest Tesk TERRY daughter, and his HUNTER grandam are both Very Good 2-year-olds with records over 28,000 pounds of milk and 1,000 pounds of fat. LE-O daughters are silky-hided with quality udders.

7HO6918 Regancrest-RH BARRY-ET*CV anchors the list of new +2.00 type sires with a +2.18T +2.13UD +1.27FL +1.79BD +2.32D (81% Rel.). He sires tall, fancy individuals with ideal dairy strength, exactly as expected from a DURHAM son out of three generations of Excellent dams. BARRY’s dam is an Excellent (92) Ked JUROR-ET with two daughters that scored Very Good (89) as two-year-olds. BARRY’s full sister, Regancrest-PR Barbie (VG-89), was nominated All-American junior 3-year-old in 2004. Expect BARRY to sire type that lasts and type that shows.

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.

™TPI is a trademark of Holstein Association USA
™Herdlife Builder is a trademark of Select Sires Inc.

Source: 11/04 U.S. Department of Agriculture and Holstein Association USA Inc.

Select Sires Inc., 11740 U.S. 42 North, Plain City, Ohio 43064 / Phone: (614) 873-4683 Fax: (614) 873-5751