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VikingNews UK 02 2017
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25 june 2017 | vikingnews get the best profitability with
vikmate
ii! find your local distributor at www.vikinggenetics.com/distributors ? mating program evaluating 40 different traits on
each
animal ? scandinavian breeding profile with reliable health traits ? giving you healthy cows with high production v ikmate is a tool for dairy farmers to make optimal matings to create future generations, selecting the best bull for
each
female as efficiently as possible. many of our international customers are already familiar with
vikmate
. the nordic total merit (
ntm
) is the main criteria in the selection of the best animals. all 14 traits combined in
ntm
have economical weights, which have an effect for profitable milk production. therefore, it is logical that
vikmate
ii, is optimizing the match according to
ntm
. in the new
vikmate
ii,
each
female will get an
ntm
val- ue, calculated either from the pedigree or from genomic test. one of the most important improvements is the possibility to do strategic decisions in the breeding program. a user can choose from suggested herd strategies as for example: de- fault strategy, procross, x-vik for heifers, beef semen for low-end cows or tailor-make his own herd goals using dif- ferent filters provided by
vikmate
ii. as its predecessor,
vikmate
ii, allows control of inbreed- ing, but as an improvement also shows the inbreeding per- centage of the future progeny. the new program gives three different bull suggestions, and shows expected level of
each
mating in all the traits included in
ntm
. vikinggenetics has put a lot of effort in making
vikmate
ii as user-friendly as possible. therefore, importing the fe- male data from the herds, as well as recognizing the bulls in females? pedigrees has had a lot of attention in the improve- ment process. the new
vikmate
ii will be available in summer 2017. to the next level by suvi johansson, export manager for spain and latin america one of the big projects going on in vikinggenetics is the improvement of the mating program
vikmate
. in the upgraded version,
vikmate
ii,
each
female will get an
ntm
value, calculated either from the pedigree or from genomic test.
vikmate
ii takes international mating plans
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