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VikingNews UK 02 2015
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groups up to 70,000
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1. tianmu farm in the ganzu province in central north china is a newly es- tablished state-owned farm with in- vestments of 1 billion yan. the in- vestments include all from land (app. 10,000 hectares at the moment), irri- gation, field machinery, buildings, equipment and purchase of heifers for breeding. the goal is 30,000 holstein cows and they have 3,000 holstein heifers imported from new zealand. 2. the yili group is the second larg- est chinese owned dairy, buying milk from app. 1 million cows ? 50% of the cows are owned by the yili group. yili has built several large farms and still expands. 3. the jialihe farm group has 20 farms with 70,000 cows and their goal is 100,000 cows. we visited a farm of 2,200 cows. 4. in the heilongjiang province in the northeastern china close to the rus- sian border is a group of 15 large farms with 50,000 cows. we visited farm no. 8511 with 550 cows who has used vikinggenetics sires since the first chinese semen import in 2011 from sweden. daughters by tp björkil have now finished their first lactation with very fine results - several of them have produced 11,000 kg milk in first lactation ? this is 1,000 kg more than herd average. all services since 2011 are with vikingholstein sires like d etoto, d skotte and s ross. the breed - ing manager for the farm group was very positive about the results: easy calvings, robust cows, high produc- tion and good longevity. in the hei- longijang province the demand for vi- kingholstein sires is increasing. 5. at the dairy expo in harbin viking- genetics was represented by our dis- tributor ts cofine ? a subsidiary by the chinese ai organization tianshan. new and interesting projects in china in china ad hoc advising in feed planning, feed analysis, health, reproduction and breeding has high priority. therefore vikinggenetics is in the process of establishing an advising package that will attract large chinese state-owned farms and create interest in the viking breeding profile. heilongjiang province - mr xin (general manager of ts cofine), karsten bording (vikingdenmark), mie riss (lmo), hc hansen (vikingge- netics), mr wang (chairman of dairy group). checking quality of maize silage at tianmu farm tianmu farm. mr leo and hc hansen in front of 3000 heifers imported from new zealand ts cofine sales managers by a memorial in ganzu the ts cofine booth at dairy expo in harbin chief technician karsten bording checks heifers at tianmu farm 21 june 2015 | vikingnews
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