Improving Your Herd's Genetic Value
Has Never Been Easier!
A quick examination of Genex Cooperative, Inc.'s Holstein lineup reveals more profitable, high Lifetime Net Merit (LNM) sires than ever before. This makes improving your herd even easier. While others are cutting back on their genetic inputs, now is the time to take your herd a step ahead.
To aid in your efforts, Genex has a 90th percentile like never before. Among the new releases is the highly sought-after mating sire, 1HO2565 CASSINO %-I. No matter what index you follow, CASSINO excels: +$871 LNM, +$891 Cheese Merit, +$834 Fluid Merit and +2306 TPITM. He's an all-round Ramos son with impressive health traits (+7.3 Productive Life, +2.65 Somatic Cell Score, +0.5 Daughter Pregnancy Rate) and extraordinary conformation evaluations (+3.19 PTA Type, +2.82 Udder Composite, +3.09 Foot & Leg Composite).
At +2.2 DPR and +5.8 Productive Life, 1HO8777 AWESOME (O Man x Zade) will produce the cows most producers desire - those that breed back and last! These characteristics, along with ample conformation and production improvement numbers, support his +$764 LNM, 99th percentile ranking. In addition, a 
GenCheckTM ranking reveals his outstanding fertility capability.
Joining the team of exciting sires is 1HO8778 SUPER. A Boliver x O Man son, he poses in the limelight as a cornerstone to increasing producer profitability. SUPER's superb status includes: +$728 LNM, +1749 PTA Milk, +6.9 Productive Life, +2.69 SCS and +1.1 DPR.
The industry's never seen a polled bull like 1HO9248 SIGNIF-P! This polled sire option enters stardom at +$623 LNM and is the highest PTA Milk bull in the Genex lineup at +2878 with +101 Fat and +70 Protein. SIGNIF-P improves all health and conformation traits (+3.03 PTAT, +2.03 Udder Comp., +1.25 Foot & Leg Comp.) and gets cows bred at +2.1 Sire Conception Rate (SCR).
The top red sire in the industry graces the Genex lineup at +$531 LNM in the 93rd percentile. 1HO8910 MATRIX-RED is the new leader for profitability among Red & White sires. He's loaded with production power at +1825 PTA Milk, excels at health traits with a +4.7 Productive Life and +1.0 DPR, and is favorable for conception ability. All this comes from an outcross pedigree in Marmax x Rudolph.
With these sires and the many more in the top 10 percent for LNM, dairy producers are sure to find elite Genex genetics to meet and beat their current selection criteria.
Furthermore, the lineup highlights 48 bulls with Productive Life over +4.0 and 18 bulls with DPR over +2.0. A large selection, but even more impressive are the extreme outliers in these traits. Nine have Productive Life evaluations over +6.0 with 1HO8784 FREDDIE %-I leading at +8.5. For DPR, there are three very extreme bulls available over +7.0. Using traits such as these to genetically develop healthy, long-lasting, efficient reproductive cows is very important.
Fertility enthusiasts can look to high conception bulls over +2.0 SCR such as 1HO2571 COLE, 1HO7900 EARNIT, 1HO7918 PING and 1HO9659 ARMY %-I. A large list of top GenCheckTM bulls, as indicated by or 
, includes AWESOME, 1HO9315 ALABAMA, SUPER, 1HO8654 LOYDIE and many more.
For those focused purely on improving conformation, there are numerous sires over +3.50 PTAT with spectacular udder evaluations too. 1HO9192 HILL, 1HO9184 SPA, 1HO8997 PENOSH, 1HO9543 KOLTON, 1HO9544 KAMPMAN are a few prime examples.
Production specialists over +2000 PTA Milk include ALABAMA, HILL, EARNIT, 1HO9417 HO-HO and SIGNIF-P among others. Strong components improvements can be seen in daughters of AWESOME, 1HO8642 GARNETT, COLE, 1HO9040 CAVANA and 1HO8543 LO.
Any way you look at it, the Genex lineup has the sires you need to position your herd for the future. Make this a defining moment. Take advantage of top genetics today by contacting your Genex representative. To locate a representative near you, contact customer service at 1-888-333-1783.
