“Just when you thought it could not get better than our December 2014 graduating class, it just didthis week with one of the largest and most amazing graduating classes I can recall in my 40 years atSelect Sires. Fourteen new 7H and two new 250H graduates totaled 16 new sires by 15 different sires. Weadded a tremendous amount of pedigree diversity for our customers. 7HO11351 SUPERSIRE is the breed’s new No. 1 GTPI® sire surpassing his stablemate, the No. 2 sire 7HO11314 MOGUL; not a bad one-twopunch. SUPERSIRE also has a large lead on the breed’s top Net Merit (NM$) list. Nine of the new graduateswere Super Samplers™, adding confi dence to genomic predictions and resulting in high reliabilities withmany daughters and herds in their proofs.The GenerVation’s program harvested the No. 1 LPI proven bull on the Canadian list with 250HO1009BREWMASTER, a great addition to the marketing lineup.” –Charlie Will, manager of Holstein sire program
Some highlights:
• Elite GTPI, 10 new sires from +2231 to +2613 GTPI
• Elite NM$, seven new sires from +502 to +834 NM$
• Elite Milk, fi ve new sires from +1,260 to +2,190 Milk
• High Type, fi ve new sires from +2.06 to +3.31 PTAT
• High Udder Composite (UDC), fi ve new sires from +2.18 to +2.91 UDC
• High Feet and Leg Composite (FLC), four new sires from +2.00 to +2.87 FLC
• High component sires, nine new graduates plus on %F and %P
• Calving Ease sires, 11 from 3.8 to 7.5% DBH
• Five new graduates with Sire Conception Rate (SCR) over +2.0