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on dairy cattle receive the latest news to your e-mail i n 2011, the use of beef breed
semen in dairy cattle was app. 100,000
doses beef breed semen. since 2011, the use has increased significantly in the whole vikinggenetics area, and the latest 12 months the use of beef breed semen in dairy cattle has been 225,000 doses ? this is more than a dou- bling in four years. in denmark, blue cattle accounts for the majority of this increase. 87,000 out of the 111,000 services with beef breeds in dairy cattle were with blue cattle bulls. in finland, the current use is 88,000 doses. the use of blonde has increase the most to 32,000 services, so the breed now accounts for app. a third of the beef breed semen used in dairy cattle. then follows limousine with 25,000 services and angus with 17,000 services. in sweden, 29,600 services with beef breed semen in dairy cattle were made. hereford is the most used breed ? with 7,000 services followed by charolais, simmental, limousine and angus with 5-6,000. the increase in the use of beef breed semen was not as pronounced in sweden as in finland and denmark. in vikinggenetics we expect the development with higher use of beef breed semen to continue. therefore, we will have more focus on this development in our breeding and selec- tion scheme for the beef breeds so that we can continue the delivery of top quality beef breed semen at competitive prices. during the past four years, the use of beef breed semen for crossing in dairy cattle has more than doubled in the three viking countries from 100,000 to 225,000 doses. during the past 12 months, there have been 88,000 services with blue cattle in denmark ? corresponding to 80% of all services with beef breed bulls in dairy cattle. to get the latest news from vikinggenetics and stories from around the vikingworld to your e-mail, go to www.vikinggenetics.com/newsletter and subscribe to our mailing list. you can find the link to the subscription form also from the start page on left hand side menu. 8 vikingnews | december 2015
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