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Brigeen Farms Consigns to Massachusetts Blue Ribbon Calf Sale
Brigeen Farms has announced their consignment to the Massachusetts Blue Ribbon Calf Sale. Brigeen Hancock Wish-ET is a full aged September calf direct from EX-92 Juniper Wish Come True. Wish scores nearly +3.00 PTAT, over +2.20 UDC, and over +1.00 FLC. Don't miss this great opportunity to buy into a great cow family!
Auction OPEN for Bidding
The Holstein Plaza Online Embryo Auciton is NOW OPEN for bidding. Offerings sell from the best North American cow families direct from the top quality herds of Holstein Plaza members. Featuring numerous packages of IVF, Sexed, Conventional, Type, Index, Show-Winning, All-American cow families and the industry's hottest sires including Captivating, Delta-Lambda, Fitters Choice, Jagger, Taos, Solomon, Solution and more! VIEW AUCTION
Holstein Canada Award Winners Announced
Holstein Canada has announced results for the new annual Holstein Canada Awards. These awards are given to individual animals and herds owned by Holstein Canada members, and will be announced on March 1st of each year. Awards are based on lactations terminated in the previous calendar year. The total production for the entire lactation is indicated and animals must be registered with greater than or equal to 75% purity. Award categories include Daily Production Champion, Outstanding Production Champions, and Herd of Distinction Awards.
To be eligable for the Daily Production Champion Award, animals must be 60 months of age or older and have completed a minimum of four lactations. Animals are ranked in order of top kilograms of milk per day of life. Total milk, fat and protein values are divided by the number of days of life (birthdate to completion of lactation). Awards are based on lactations completed in 2020.
Outstanding Production Champions are determined by the total milk produced by age at completion of their last lactation in 2020, and awarded within each age group.
Evaluation of all cows in the herd having completed a lactation in 2020 is done to determine winners of the Herd of Distinction Award. Lifetime milk production of all animals in the herd who have completed a lactation in 2020 are used to calculate the Milk Herd average. Awards are then grouped by herd size (herd size = number of animals completing a lactation in 2020).
View a full list of award winners at holstein.ca.
NEW VG-89 2-Year-Olds
Holstein USA has released the list of High Scoring 2-Year-Olds for February 2021. Topping the list are four females earning the classification score of VG-89.
Kamps-RX AppleB Addie-Red-ET VG-89 90-MS
*Addie-Red was the winning Summer Yearling, 2019 WDE R&W Show
Le-O-La Kingdoc Carry-ET VG-89
Ruann Doc Glory-83405-ET VG-89
Ruann Jest Kingpin-80236 VG-89
Congratulations to all breeders and owners of these tremendous young females!
World Dairy Expo Update
Plans for the 54th World Dairy Expo®, set for September 28 through October 2, continue to progress at the Alliant Energy Center in Madison, Wisconsin. Expo recognizes that uncertainty remains surrounding future health regulations that may govern Madison this fall at the time of WDE 2021. To best understand these factors as the COVID-19 pandemic persists, Expo has met with Dane County and Alliant Energy Center officials regarding current and potential future local COVID-19 restrictions. Communication with these officials continues as additional clarity is sought.
Due to World Dairy Expo’s role as the gathering place of an essential global industry, the organization’s leadership is simultaneously exploring alternative venues for hosting the 2021 show. Requests for proposal were sought throughout February. At this time, Expo is not at liberty to disclose which venues are being considered. A decision regarding the location of World Dairy Expo 2021, in its entirety, will be made by the WDE Executive Committee later this spring after all options and implications are thoroughly reviewed.
World Dairy Expo leaders remain steadfast in their commitment to gathering the global dairy industry again on the colored shavings, on the Trade Show floor, and in The Tanbark this fall at World Dairy Expo 2021.
Information provided by World Dairy Expo
Brigeen Farms Announces Consignments to Spring Tag Sale
Brigeen Farms has announced their consignments to the New England Spring Classic Tag Sale. Brigeen Unst Acelyn-Red-ET and Brigeen ST Chief Ivanka will be available for purchase during the tag sale on April 9-11, 2021. Acelyn-Red is an early June 2020 Unstopabull-Red daughter from Ms Blondin Int Acelyn-Red EX-90. She comes backed by fantastic brood cows including KHW Goldwyn Aiko EX-91 DOM and Kamps-Hollow Altitude EX-95 DOM. Ivanka is a full aged December 2020 Chief daughter backed by EX-94 Brigeen Lauthority Izzy. Don't miss your chance to buy, show, and breed these great heifers.
Habitan influence continues at AOT
The influence of Cookiecutter DTA Habitan VG-89 DOM continues for the AOT Genetics breeding program. Holstein USA released the High Ranking Genomic Young Bulls for March 2021 yesterday including four from AOT Genetics with three being granddaughters of Habitan. Also released yesterday was the High Ranking Genomic Young Females for March 2021 and of the Top 200, 20 were sired by AOT Silver Helix. Congratulations to David King, Midas Touch Genetics and Tom Kugler for the continued success and influence of the AOT Genetics program.
Successful Sale with MN Holstein YAC
The Minnesota Holstein Association Young Adult Committee consigned a group of offerings to the Holstein Plaza Online Embryo Auction ending on February 25. Each year the MN YAC teams up with Holstein Plaza to raise funds for educational experiences and social events for the young dairy breeders and enthusiasts of Minnesota through an embryo sale! Their offerings were highlighted as the first lots of the sale and averaged $500 per embryo with part of the proceeds going back to the Young Adult Committe.
Holstein Plaza would like to thank the Minnesota Holstein Association, their consigners, and all who placed bids to support this great cause.
Top Ranking New Genomic Females for March 2021
The new list of top ranking new genomic females has been released with BOMAZ CONWAY 10056-ET taking the top spot and scoring +3160GTPI with +1021NM and +0.53PTAT. 10056-ET is a Conway daughter from the Bomaz Daggat D Pizza cow family and owned by Bomaz Inc. in Hammond, Wisconsin.
Completing the list of top 5 females are:
2. LADYS-MANOR HUEY OPERA-ET +3120GTPI
3. OCD AHEAD FORTUNE 64329-ET +3107GTPI
4. PEAK 83723-ET +3085GTPI
5. BADGER S-S-I 16163 17134-ET +3075GTPI
Pine-Tree Dairy: Suppliers of Superior Genetics
Pine-Tree Dairy of Marshallville, Ohio is owned and operated by Matt Steiner and his family. They milk 650 milking females within the main facility, along with a 200-cow organic herd and a 250-cow Jersey herd. The farm focuses on cheese merit, pounds of milk, percent of components, and health traits.
In 2003, they purchased Wesswood-HC Rudy Missy at an auction in Wisconsin. Missy’s descendants can still be found in the herd today, many of which have made an impact on the herd, both through milk production and genetic progress.
To learn more about Pine-Tree Dairy, visit their breeder page HERE.