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24 vikingnews | december 2017 around the vikingworld t orre
santa
maria, owned by the baptista family, has one of the biggest holstein herds in spain. located in lleida, the
torre
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maria farm is an excel- lent vikinggenetics? ambassador that shows other farmers how the vg breeding programme works. having inseminated the herd with vikingholstein for several years under the management of joan baptista, the family recently decid- ed to go one step further in optimis- ing their dairy business and started to genomically test
females
on the ntm (nordic total merit) scale. ?by testing
females
genomically, you get more reliable breeding val- ues and your selection of best fe- males is more accurate,? claus lang- dahl, vikinggenetics breeding man- ager, says. so far, 139
females
have been tested which has given
torre
santa
maria a unique opportunity to opti- mise management decisions on their herd, langdahl explains. ?it is really comforting to see that all the time and money spent on breeding is now also confirmed on paper - in terms of good breeding values, and it?s something that we have already been noticing on the
torre
santa
maria optimises management with genomic test on
females
by verónica löfgren, communicator, vikinggenetics
torre
santa
maria has started to see the benefits to make genomic test on all the
females
. about
torre
santa
maría 1,800 vikingholstein cows 11,800 kg 35 employees the
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santa
maría farm is an excellent vikinggenetics ambassador that shows other spanish farmers how vikinggenetics? breeding program works. joan baptista is the owner of the
torre
santa
maría farm in spain. did you know? you can also genomically test your animals on the ntm scale. if you are interested, and require further information about this, please contact your local distributor. farm for some time,? baptista says regarding the good results his fe- males achieved on the genomic test. ?using genomic selection on your
females
together with x-vik sexed semen on your top heifers, will ensure the highest possible pro- gress of your herd. for the lower ranked
females
, you can use conven- tional or beef semen,? langdahl says. top ntm heifers the 139 genomically tested
females
also revealed very interesting top ntm animals; the best heifer sired by vh cosmo having gntm as high as +30. "vikinggenetics would like to congratulate
torre
santa
maría for their breeding work, and wishes all the success also in the future", suvi johansson, export manager for spain, states.
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