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vikinggenetics international
2015
by sara wiklert petersson,
sales
manager, vikinggenetics the
sales
for vikinggenetics on export markets increased by 10% in
2015
. the
sales
for sexed semen, went up 20% compared to 2014 and the main breed is
vikingred
. table 1. top markets for export in
2015
australia usa norway great britain the netherlands france poland south africa chile spain procross helps increase the
sales
of
vikingred
the main breed is still the
vikingred
that represents 42% of the export, and had an increase of +17% from 2014. the procross concept is one of the reasons, and more than 50% of the
vikingred
sales
are through this concept and it is increasing at high speed. this also shows in our top market
2015
, us, where the good results in the procross herds lead to lots of new customers. our
sales
in us have increased by more than 50% during
2015
and made it into the best year for
vikingred
. the number of procross herds of using viking- holstein as the holstein breed has also increase due to the health traits. main markets for red, holstein and jerseys the main markets for
vikingred
are usa, great britain, australia, nether- lands and italy. the markets where we sell most holstein are poland, austral- ia, spain and us. the best jersey mar- kets are south africa, france and great britain. france does not have a large jersey population, but the influence from the vikingjersey is really high. (table 1.) most sold bulls in
2015
the
sales
of genomically proven bulls are increasing and today represent 24% of the
sales
on export. but still, 76% of the
sales
on the export market are proven bulls. the pattern is the same for all three breeds. it is a big dif- ference from the vikinggenetics home markets, where the
sales
of daughter proven bulls today is only 3% of the total
sales
.
vikingred
vikingjersey vikingholstein beef figure 1. the proportion of the
sales
2015
for
vikingred
, vikingholstein, vikingjersey and beef procross cows at hoekstra dairy, california, usa. 8 vikingnews | february 2016
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