After more than 10 years of deliberation, and nearly 12 months of construction, we’re proud to finally be able to call Abbotsford home. The building of our new office has been an exciting adventure, and one that could not have been completed without the countless individuals who’ve poured their time, creativity, and skills into making [...]
SCR has introduced several new powerful applications for its Herd Intelligence solutions. The new capabilities provide you with additional timely and actionable insight into your cows’ reproductive and health status. With the ability to make better-informed decisions about more aspects of your herd and farm management, you can further improve productivity, reduce costs, and gain [...]
As new bulls reach puberty and begin semen production, more and more we find ourselves able to offer some very enticing new bulls between official proof releases. As much as possible we release these bulls at the mid-point between proof dates when the intention is to make them fully available. In addition to these, these [...]
The 32nd Western Canadian Classic is set to take place from August 23-27th in Brandon, Manitoba. The Keystone Centre and adjoining Canad Inns will serve as the venue for 100 keen dairy youth from across the west to compete for honours in Dairy Science, Fitting & Clipping, Judging, Showmanship and Conformation. The top ranking senior [...]
Have you ever wondered how your operation ranks against others on key metrics, yet have had a hard time finding a current relevant benchmark to compare it to? DairyTrack is your solution! A powerful herd performance monitoring tool that uses on farm animal data synchronized nightly from the farm management or milking parlor software to [...]
In December we introduced a quintet of Snowman (O Man x BW Marshall x Aaron) sons certain that his Goldwyn and Shottle-free pedigree would provide options for Western Canadian producers. This time we found two more exceptional Snowman sons too compelling to leave off the list, so we removed two others to keep it to [...]
In the first proof run of the year in Canada, a base change is applied which essentially subtracts the average genetic improvement being made over the past year from the genetic numbers for every animal (both females and males). While an animal’s genetic makeup does not change, the amount of superiority over the population average [...]
The 2016 WestGen Days event was action packed. The event kicked off with a casual Wine and Cheese night filled with attendees from BC to Ontario, including our local reps. The AGM day saw great attendance by our members. Financial reports from Controller Vernon Smith and Treasurer Raymond Brink showed that the WestGen Group of [...]