1218 Beef on Dairy Directory

Beef Sires for Dairy Crossbreeding

December 2018

Phone: (614) 873-4683 ™

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www.selectsires.com

ProfitMAX is a trademark of Select Sires Inc.

GENETIC STRATEGIES TO MAXIMIZE PROFIT Identify areas to increase profitability ProfitMAX is a complete program offering the expertise of Select Determine proper herd inventories

Sires’ reproductive and genetic specialists. A genetic audit of your dairy’s reproductive records, cow and heifer inventories and

Increase profits from lower-value genetics

evaluation of each animal’s genetic value are considered using the Optimal Genetic Pathways calculator. We will work with you to help

Create elite replacements from your best genetics

determine the best possible genetic pairings to maximize profits in the next generation to meet your goals so your dairy not only

Improve short-term cash flow

survives, but thrives well into the future!

What it takes to be a ProfitMAX Sire ProfitMAX can significantly impact your herd’s bottom line by increasing the revenue from your lower genetic value females. Select Sires’ ProfitMax beef sires have been selected for crossbreeding on Holsteins and Jerseys.

These sires excel for calving ease, growth performance, carcass merit, and most importantly, they offer elite fertility to maximize the reproductive performance in your herd.

1. A ProfitMAX sire’s semen has been produced by Select Sires and has met the rigorous health and quality standards we demand for our customers.

Subsequent field testing will earn a sire a Fertility Verified designation, which combines semen quality evaluations with conception data.

2. A ProfitMAX Sire ranks in the top ½ of his respective breed for both Calving Ease and for Terminal Index.

Using above-average Calving Ease bulls helps to reduce dystocia, results in more live calves and ultimately improves future reproductive performance for both cows and heifers.

The Terminal Index combines traits for growth, gain and end-product merit into one index. Using above-average sires for Terminal Index means your resulting calves will perform well on feed and earn premiums at harvest.

Using ProfitMAX sires gives you the best opportunity to realize additional revenues from calves who hit or exceed market targets.

Angus - Beef Value ($B): an index value expressed in dollars per head, is the expected average difference in future progeny performance for post weaning and carcass value compared to progeny of other sires.

Simmental - Terminal Index (TI): evaluates sires for use on mature Angus cows with all offspring put on feed and sold grade and yield.

Charolais - Terminal Sire Index (TSI): represents a dollar index per terminal progeny produced from a bull in the Charolais database, ranking them for profit potential.

Limousin - Mainstream Terminal Index ($MTI): measures differences in expected profit per carcass produced on a mainstream grid (yield grade 1 or 2, Select to low-Choice quality grade, and no over- or under-weights or dark cutters).

ProfitMAX beef sires help you create higher-value feeder calves – ultimately, a win/win/win for you, your customers and our beef consumers.

ProfitMAX ANGUS Sires

7AN422 G A R EPD Acc % Rank

CED 7 .72

PROPHECY BW 1.8 .85

7AN406 WELYTOK EPD Acc % Rank

CED 11 .42 15

BW .8 .60

WW 73 .85 4

YW 120 .82 10

CW 45 .78

$20 REA .26 .73

MB $B 1.38 133.51 .77 1

FERTILITY

CHARTER 3B20 WW 60 .53 25

YW 112 .43 20

American Angus Association EPDs as of 12/04/18

CW 51 .46 15

REA .78 .41 10

MB $B .81 160.94 .41 15 10

ERIFIED

$18

FERTILITY

ERIFIED

7AN363 MCR EPD Acc % Rank

CED 12 .70 10

7AN408 KSU EPD Acc % Rank

CED 13 .51 10

HORIZON 081 BW -1.0 .86 10

WW 62 .83 20

YW 112 .70 20

CW 49 .61 20

$20 REA .70 .55 20

MB $B .97 172.37 .57 10 4

FERTILITY

KONZA 3111 BW -.8 .72 15

WW 62 .67 20

YW 117 .56 15

CW 60 .50 5

ERIFIED

$20 REA .99 .45 2

MB $B .35 157.93 .45 10

FERTILITY

ERIFIED

ProfitMAX ANGUS Sires

7AN453 S EPD Acc % Rank

S ROCKET C142

CED 15 .50 3

7AN471 KF EPD Acc % Rank

CED 9 .36

BW -4.0 .70 1

WW 53 .61

YW 104 .47

$20

CW 31 .46

REA .72 .41 15

MB $B .96 133.93 .41 10

CW 47 .43 25

REA .66 .39 25

MB $B .70 165.96 .39 10

FERTILITY

KIOWA 6151 BW -1.1 .54 10

WW 74 .47 3

YW 137 .43 2

American Angus Association EPDs as of 12/04/18

ERIFIED

$20

FERTILITY

ERIFIED

7AN459 T C A EPD Acc % Rank

CED 14 .45 4

ACCRUEL 260 BW -2.0 .71 4

WW 45 .65

7AN476 WORTHINGTON EPD Acc % Rank

CED 12 .40 10

BW 1.0 .58

WW 72 .49 5

YW 89 .48

CW 38 .40

$18 REA .92 .34 4

MB $B 1.50 154.27 .32 1 15

ALL PROFIT 576 YW 122 .43 10

CW 58 .45 10

REA .86 .41 10

MB $B .99 161.04 .41 10 10

$20

Connecting Supply and Demand For 40 years, Wulf Cattle of Morris, Minnesota has been adding value to their feedlot cattle through a focus on superior genetics. Now, that same focus on improved feedlot performance through genetics is extended to dairy operations to maximize the value of every calf born, not just dairy replacement heifers. Select Sires extends custom-made beef sires to the dairy industry to produce a high-value calf. These calves are the result of strategic matings on dairy cows to Breeding to Feeding™ beef sires.

7LM15 WULFS EPD Acc % Rank

CED 13 .27 20

Select Sires’ Breeding to Feeding lineup is specifically designed to address the needs of a dairy producer, while still creating an efficient feeder calf that is appealing to cattle feeders and packing plants.

Breeding to Feeding takes beef sires used on dairy cows one step further by connecting the resulting offspring born on dairy farms to the demand from Wulf Cattle feedlots. In addition to their 3,000 head registered Limousin cow herd, Wulf Cattle feeds out 50,000 head of dairy x beef calves annually and growing. Wulf Cattle is also not new to the dairy business since they joined with Riverview, LLP in Minnesota in 2012 after the success of Breeding to Feeding in the Riverview dairies.

7LM16 WULFS

The Breeding to Feeding program is a complete system starting with using the best Breeding to Feeding genetics on dairy cows to harvesting superior feeder calves at the packer.

EPD Acc % Rank

CED 16 .24 10

AFRICA 1086A

BW -1.6 .38 10

WW 63 .33

YW 95 .35

CW 4 .33

$20

REA 1.24 .30 15

MB $MTI -0.15 49.17 .26

FERTILITY

ARGUS 6047W

BW -2.2 .35 4

WW 63 .31

YW 105 .33 25

CW 26 .33 15

REA .71 .31

ERIFIED

$20 MB .21 .30 10

$MTI 59.26 10

FERTILITY

ERIFIED

Whether used on Holstein or Jersey cows, Breeding to Feeding sires provide the best in complimentary crossbreeding to correct dairy deficiencies in feed efficiency and carcass performance, while still being homozygous black and polled. For over 10 years, calves resulting from Breeding to Feeding genetics have provided marketability, consistency, and profitability for dairy producers and cattle feeders alike.

“For dairy operations, creating value with bull calves is a challenge.

The Breeding to Feeding program provides an opportunity to combine sex-sorted semen use with the added-value of beef production genetics to maximize the profit of every calf born on the farm. Riverview Dairy operations have been utilizing this model and seeing success.”

Mitch Fehr, Riverview Dairy LLP

7LM18 WULFS EPD Acc % Rank

CED 17 .44 4

DAVY CROCKETT 4957D

BW -1.0 .51 15

WW 61 .51

YW 96 .51

CW 24 .47 20

REA .67 .47

MB .61 .38 1

$20

$MTI 72.55 1

North American Limousin Foundation EPDs as of 12/05/18 ™ Breeding to Feeding is a trademark of Wulf Cattle.

ProfitMAX SIMANGUS Sires

7SM84 LMF EPD Acc % Rank

CED 12.5 .52

MADISON B752 BW 1.6 .67

14SM3099 GW EPD Acc % Rank

CED 14.4 .42 20

WW YW CW 74.9 120.2 22.0 .62 .60 .50 15 10

$18 REA .89 .48 10

MB .84 .45 1

TI 89.1

MB .40 .41

TI 76.0

1

DYNAMIC 396E

BW -0.5 .50

WW YW CW 66.8 110.5 26.4 .48 .49 .45 25

American Simmental Association EPDs as of 11/27/18

REA .53 .43

FERTILITY

ERIFIED

$22

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7SM98 K-LER EPD Acc % Rank

CED 17.5 .39 5

7SM100 GW EPD Acc % Rank

CED 17.4 .56 5

ARCHITECT 709E BW -4.0 .46 2

WW 51.1 .46

YW 83.4 .46

CW 18.3 .44

REA .38 .42

$20 MB .43 .36 25

TI 72.2

COUNTRY BOY 142B BW -2.3 .76 10

WW YW CW 69.9 113.7 35.3 .72 .72 .58 20

REA .89 .55 10

MB .28 .51

$22

TI 77.9 15

ProfitMAX CHAROLAIS & WAGYU Sires

7CH95 FTJ EPD Acc % Rank

CASCADE 1508

CED 6.6 .39

BW -0.6 .56

WW 38 .41 20

YW 73 .34 15

CW 24 .23 20

$20 REA .62 .23

7KB1 OCD 30T

SEIJI 38668

$30

MB TSI .22 220.29 .20 15 15

7KB2 OCD YOJIMBO

EMORI 41713

$30

American International Charolais Association EPDs as of Fall 2018

FERTILITY WITHOUT COMPROMISE Select Sires has earned the well-deserved reputation for having the most fertile semen in the A.I. industry from astute dairy and beef owners. Our fertility advantage is consistently validated with each dairy sire summary by the national Sire Conception Rate (SCR) fertility comparisons. SCR is a third-party summary of pregnancy check validated data, summarized and published by the Council for Dairy Cattle Breeding (CDCB). The graph below shows Select Sires’ fertility advantage.

TAGGED for Quality Assurance!

By tagging beef-cross calves with ProfitMAX tags, breeders certify the calves are offspring of ProfitMAX-qualified sires that excel for terminal index in their respective breeds. These indexes combine traits for growth, daily gain and end-product carcass merit. Calves identified with the ProfitMAX tags offer increased value to potential buyers based on their genetic merit.

When purchasing ProfitMAX tags, breeders agree to keep calves healthy, free of illness, lameness, swollen navel, blindness or any other condition that results in an animal that is not marketable.

Care requirements for newborn calves sired by ProfitMAX beef sires: 

FERTILITY VERIFIED SIRES While Select Sires’ beef bulls don’t accumulate nearly the number of conception records as our Holstein and Jersey sires, beef semen is evaluated through the same lab and held to the same rigorous standards as our dairy semen. Using conception data along with quality control evaluations, beef sires designated as Fertility Verified have been field tested and have achieved Select Sires’ industry-leading quality standards.

You can trust the fertility of Fertility Verified beef sires, just like you already trust the fertility of our dairy semen.

Follow an established colostrum protocol to achieve successful passive transfer. When feeding maternal colostrum: • Calves must receive good quality colostrum from healthy, well-vaccinated cows.

• To achieve successful passive transfer, a calf needs one gallon of good quality maternal colostrum within four hours of birth.

• Replacing or supplementing maternal colostrum is recommended if good-quality colostrum is not available.

Calves must have navels dipped immediately following birth.

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Calves must be housed in a dry, draft-free area with limited stress to maintain proper body temperature.

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Calves must be provided sufficient daily nutritional intake to maintain growth prior to sale.

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To learn more about ProfitMAX-qualified beef sires and how you can tag your dairy-beef cross offspring for quality assurance, contact your local Select Sires representative.

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