VH Tirsvad Goldwyn Grafit
In new bull proofs released by Dairyco today (Tue 12 Aug), the highest Profitable Lifetime Index (PLI) sire, VH Tirsvad Goldwyn Grafit, is rated +£623 PLI, £44 ahead of second place. Other important traits score +1.74 UK type, +2.26 legs and feet, -19% SCC and +10.5 fertility.
Grafit daughter
Semen is available immediately from Sterling Sires and Sterling Bulls Online, along with top ranked bull for Dairyco’s new multi-breed Spring Calving Index (SCI), Danish VJ Tester. He scores +£437 SCI, and sires moderate sized cattle with -14% SCC and +12.5 fertility index.
For the growing number of farmers adopting spring calving, milk-from-grazing systems, the new SCI demonstrates great innovation and market orientation by its developer Dairyco, according to Sterling Sires director Paul Westaway.
“For the first time, these farmers can select bulls specifically for their production system based on UK figures,” he says. “Dairyco deserves great credit for upgrading PLI and introducing SCI. As a result, both indexes offer more accurate measurement of genetics-based profitability gains, for both mainstream and spring calving farmers.”
Primary UK distribution rights for both bulls are held by ABA Viking, from whom semen can also be purchased.
