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Sustainable breeding strategy delivers options for dairy family
Incorporating dairy-beef in their breeding program has provided one south west Victorian family with flexibility within their business. Elingamite North sharefarmers Jake and Melissa Hinkley started using ABS Beef InFocus™ this past season. They’d “dabbled” using sexed genetics for the past five years and said adding Beef InFocus to their breeding program ensured they were on…
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Sexed genetics push profitability in December ABV highlights
ABS JERONIMO-P is still Australia’s top Holstein proven sire Local Jersey sires dominate the proven and genomic ABV rankings ONSTAD-P continues to lead the Red breeds New high-fertility Holstein sire HOWLER dominates sexed genetics sales Sexed genetics push profitability Demand for sexed genetics from Australia’s top Holstein sires has never been stronger, as dairy farmers…
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Milking the meat market with InFocus
Using specialist dairy-beef semen in a three-way-cross herd has eliminated bobby calves and opened a lucrative new income stream for one southwest Victorian dairy farm. And there’s expectations this move could deliver a windfall of up to $100,000 a year, without any extra work. Garvoc dairy farmers, Josh and Lilli Philp, have joined more than…