ABS OFFERS TWO JERSEY GRADUATES AND JPI LEADERS

DEFOREST, WISCONSIN – January 19, 2010—Jersey breeders can look to the ABS Jersey sire line-up for deep, solid pedigrees combined with top of the breed rankings.

New graduate 29JE3527 Lyon Impuls AMITY moves into the active line-up in the top 25 of the Jersey JPI list.  His daughters are bred for production (+1118 Milk) and excellent components (+45 lbs. Fat and +41 lbs. Protein).  An Impuls son, this outcross sire boasts daughters with strong, balanced frames and shallow udders built to last.

29JE3526 Schultz Deacon RETREAT-P-ET is another exciting January graduate. This polled +2.43 JUI Deacon-P son hails from the same family that produced ABS favorites 29JE3360 RESTORE and 29JE3252 RESCUE.  RETREAT-P sires daughters with open rib structures, strong fore udder attachments and ideal teat placement.

29JE3506 Tollenaars Implus LEGAL 233-ET and 29JE3510 Schultz Rescue HEADLINE, once again claimed top spots on the JPI list—first and third, respectively. LEGAL is the leader in the industry for Cheese Merit Dollars at +580 and ranks number one for Productive Life (+5.5) and number two for JUI (+4.69) in the elite CM$ rankings. LEGAL hails from the same elite cow family as the August 2009 graduate 29JE3508 LYNDON.

Following just behind LEGAL, HEADLINE brings profitability with an impressive +477 NM$.  HEADLINE is the only bull in the breed to rank among the top five for JPI, NM$, JUI and PL.  From HALLMARK’s cow family, HEADLINE is backed by three generations of excellent dams.  

The ABS Sexation® sex-sorted semen offers Jersey producers the opportunity to “Create Heifers from the Best of the Breed” as home to a number of these superior sires including; HEADLINE, LEGAL and LYNDON—three of the many high-ranking Jersey sires offered.

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.