EXCITING O MAN AND TITANIC SONS ANCHOR ABS
NEW GRADUATE LINE-UP

DEFOREST, WISCONSIN –August 20, 2009 –ABS Global added 10 new Holstein sires to its active global line-up with the release of the August Sire Summary data on Tuesday, August 18. 

"These new graduates solidify ABS as the home of the most diverse and high ranking O Man sons in the industry," stated Scott Bentley, Global Dairy Product Manager. "The unique combination of strong fitness features and health traits provides producers the genetics they seek to produce long life cows."

A highlight of the August graduates is 29HO13083 Schillview GARRETT-ET.   GARRETT is a Rock Solid® (100 daughters in 60 herds) graduate premiering in the top 5 of the Holstein Top 100 TPI® list.  GARRETT, an O Man son, follows his sire’s tradition of transmitting highly profitable daughters and improves health and fitness traits.  His daughters excel in locomotion (+3.04 FLC) and longevity (+5.6 Productive Life).   GARRETT daughters are trouble-free animals that calve easily and breed back quickly.

Another Rock Solid graduate is 29HO13070 Welcome PENNYMAKER-ET 98%I.  A Lancelot son, PENNYMAKER hails from the Welcome Aaron Penel cow family.  PENNYMAKER daughters will be profit makers with healthy udders (2.66 SCS) and are bred to last (+5.5 PL).  Being over two points for Type (+2.21), Udder Composite (+2.41) and Foot and Leg Composite (+2.46), PENNYMAKER daughters are well-balanced cows that have excellent mobility and well-attached, youthful udders.

            An elite type graduate 29HO13110 Ladys-Manor ASHMORE-ET is a Titanic son with exceptional feet and legs (+3.54 FLC) and udders (+3.13 UDC).  A calving ease sire with extreme frame and udder traits, his Type (+3.32) results in daughters that are tall, dairy and possess quality udders.

29HO11971 Bomaz DISCOVER-ET offers dairy producers a unique sire stack as he is a LOOKOUT x Finale x Highlight from Bomaz Farms in Wisconsin.  This Rock Solid graduate is a component improver and hails from the same cow family as ABS customer favorites 29HO11153 HOMESTEAD and 29HO11849 BOULDER.  DISCOVER daughters are large framed cows with wide rumps and well-attached udders.

29HO13144 Graf-Acres MORRELL-ET is an O Man son that sires daughters ideal for any environment.  His family was developed by End-Road—the same breeder that delivered million unit sire 29HO10124 BOLIVER.   MORRELL excels in health and management traits, longevity (+4.3 PL) and milk quality (2.68 SCS).  In addition, he sires highly profitable daughters at +582 NM$.

29HO13073 Ufm-Dbs ELLROD-ET is an O Man son with an outcross pedigree of Lynch x Sam x Patron.  ELLROD sires the profitable kind at +574 NM$.  He is a calving ease sire (5% difficult), and his daughters are well-balanced cows that have correct set to their rear legs and possess excellent rear udder height and width. 

One of the first BOLIVER sons to be released, 29HO13181 Honeycrest TOBIAS-ET sires exceptional udder traits built to milk.  TOBIAS is over two points for Type (+2.15), Udder Composite (+2.66) and Foot and Leg Composite (+2.91), and his daughters possess frames fit for any management system.

            29HO13062 Ran-Rue COASTAL-ET is a high ranking O Man son from the Ran-Rue herd of Washington.  COASTAL will not disappoint on health and management traits.  He sires longevity (+4.8 PL), calving ease and his daughters will excel in fat and protein tests.  COASTAL daughters track squarely and have extremely steep foot angles for exceptional mobility.

The Titanic son, 29HO11991 Glen-Toctin LARGENT-ET, defines exceptional locomotion with a Foot and Leg Composite at +3.78.   The Rock Solid graduate also boasts high Type (+3.06) and an Udder Composite at +2.80.  LARGENT daughters have exceptional height and width of rear udder and strong fore udder attachments.

94HO0863 Kamps-Hollow ARUDOLF-RED-ET is a September Storm*RC x Prelude who offers a unique pedigree with no crosses to Rubens or Blackrose.  His daughters are dairy, refined individuals with outstanding feet and leg traits.  ARUDOLF-RED is an ABS Pregnancy King, Calving Ease specialist and available in the ABS Sexation® line-up.

            Headquartered in DeForest, Wisconsin, ABS Global is the world-leading provider of bovine genetics, reproduction services, technologies and uddercare products. Marketing in more than 80 countries around the globe, ABS has been at the forefront of animal genetics and technology since its founding in 1941. ABS Global is a division of Genus plc.