Select’s New Holstein Graduates Are Just What You’re Looking For
PLAIN CITY, Ohio, Apr. 2, 2008 — With the release of April 1 genetic evaluations, Select Sires graduates seven outstanding new Holstein sires that offer diverse pedigrees, elite Total Performance Index™ (TPI™), high type, outstanding milk and components production and more.
“At Select Sires, we strive to meet the needs of today’s dairy producers with the best genetics available in the world,” said Blaine Crosser, vice president of dairy sire product line and sales management for Select Sires. “This class of new graduates exemplifies meeting that charge by providing the kind of sires that increase the productivity and profitability of our customer-owners.”
BUSHMAN: Specializing in Milk, Net Merit and Total Performance
7HO8245 Sandy-Valley BUSHMAN-ET is a high-ranking TPI sire (+1822 TPI) with big-time production. He sires medium-sized dairy cows with exceptional feet and legs and a great rear udder. BUSHMAN ranks among the top 5 at Select for Net Merit (+$517) and stands among the top 10 for both Milk (+1,992) and Protein (+57). This early Comestar Stormatic-ET son offers the big-league production, solid type improvement (+2.00 Type) and positive Productive Life (+2.1) that are ideal in almost any herd.
The New Leader in Red
Topping the Red and White breed for both TPI and Net Merit is 7HO8055 Sure-View AMERICA-RED-ET. At +1768 TPI and +$480 Net Merit, AMERICA-RED is a popular Super Sampler™ graduate, already with 91% Reliability. He is an elite production sire with +1,917 Milk and favorable Protein yield (+.01%P and +61). At 6 percent Calving Ease, he is an excellent option for heifer-A.I. programs and is an ideal mating for 7HO7872 KHW Kite ADVENT-RED-ET daughters.
More Super Sampler Graduates Offer High Reliability
7HO7982 Penn-England REGIS-ET and 7HO8012 O-Bee JABEZ-ET are both former Super Samplers that enter the proven lineup with at least 90% Reliability. REGIS, a Roylane Jordan-ET son, is out of a powerful Very Good (89-GMD-DOM) Pen-Col Duster-ET dam. This Superior Settler™ sires shapely shallow udders with correct teat size and placement and offers positive Daughter Pregnancy Rate and Productive Life. JABEZ is a maternal brother to 7HO6417 O-Bee MANfred Justice-ET and is the final son ever produced by their dam, Meier-Meadows El Jezebel-ET (EX-92-EX-MS-GMD-DOM). With an extremely favorable type proof (+2.86 Type, +1.85 UDC and +1.84 FLC), JABEZ adds strength (+2.02) and increases foot angle (+2.62) – ideal traits to handle concrete, free-stall operations.
Maternal Brothers, LOGAN IRON and LARAMEE, Transmit High Type and More
7HO8090 Pine-Shelter LARAMEE Mor-ET and 7HO8227 Pine-Shelter LOGAN IRON-ET are both out of Pine-Shelter Lariat-ET (VG-88-GMD-DOM), a very special Carol Prelude Mtoto-ET daughter. Lariat produced more than 35,000 pounds of milk as a junior 2-year-old and exhibited many traits that a great commercial cow should possess. LARAMEE, sired by Stouder Morty-ET, tops Select’s lineup for Foot and Leg Composite at +3.55 and is second for Type at +3.47. He also boasts +1.99 UDC and +1762 TPI and helps fill the bulk tank at +1,612 Milk. LOGAN IRON, a Herdlife Builder™ and HealthMark™ sire, is exceptional for health traits (+1.2 DPR, +3.2 Productive Life, 2.54 Somatic Cell Score). Sired by Boss Iron-ET, LOGAN IRON also transmits outstanding Type (+2.38) and Udder Composite (+1.97). Both with 7HO5157 Regancrest Elton DURHAM-ET-free pedigrees, they match up well with DURHAM offspring and will satisfy the most discriminating breeder.
New gender SELECTed Graduate
Available with gender SELECTed™ semen only, 507HO8094 My-John Pippen SCOTTIE-ET sires medium-sized cows with exceptional udders and feet and legs – perfect for commercial environments. He ranks among the top 10 at Select for Foot and Leg Composite (+2.26) and his daughters have steep foot angle with rear legs that track squarely. A Herdlife Builder, look for SCOTTIE to produce more heifers that last.
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.
Source: 04/08 U.S. Department of Agriculture, Interbull and Holstein Association USA.
04/08 Rel: BUSMAN NM$ 75%, USDA 84%, HA Type 78%, PL 58%; AMERICA-RED NM$ 80%, USDA 91%, CE 84%; REGIS DPR 61%; JABEZ HA Type 85%; LARAMEE HA Type 82%, USDA 87%; LOGAN IRON DPR 51%, PL 53%, SCS 65%, HA Type 77%; SCOTTIE HA Type 81%
TMTotal Performance Index and TPI are trademarks of Holstein Association USA; Super Sampler, Superior Settler, Herdlife Builder, HealthMark and gender SELECTed are trademarks of Select Sires Inc.
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