It's a great opportunity for you to step off the farm for a few days and spend time engaging with your peers, learning about new initiatives, viewing some farms and socializing with friends. WestGen Days is about respecting our past, taking pride in our ownership, and ensuring that the next generation of members can [...]
Control your herd's genetic future with more heifers. Guidelines for using sexed semen • Restrict sexed semen use to 1st or 2nd services when using on heifers and 1st service when using on lactating cows. • Fertility window for sexed semen is narrower because the sperm are believed to be closer in their timing [...]
It was in our August 2013 proof sheet that Airintake and Album were listed one after the other in the Genomax list . These two bulls, with identical sire stacks, and similarly predicted production and type scores have graduated to the proven side of our sheet. The pair of Epic sons are cousins to [...]
TPI, LPI, PRO$, Net Merit and many more… With so many selection indexes available, how can you decide which is the best option for your herd? To maximize genetic progress on your farm should you be using only the very top bulls from one of these indexes? Should you reference multiple indexes at once? [...]
Did you know that 60 oocytes are able to be pooled into one maturation tube? Pooling donors during the IVF cycle helps: ~Cut costs ~Increases chances of a successful IVF cycle ~Increase the potential for high quality embryos ~Maximize your genetic investment Pooling is a great tool for all producers to have in their [...]
There are but a mere few sires available to producers that break the 3500 LPI barrier. New mid-round release Genomax sire, Claynook C-SUITE (AltaSpring x Bombero), is one of them joining December’s new star, SEDUCER, on that elite list. C-Suite’s dam is a VG-85 point Bombero daughter who traces through Mogul, Man-O-Man and [...]
In an effort to better support the needs of the large and growing herds in Western Canada, WestGen is pleased to announce the appointment of Valerie Holbech to the newly created role of Strategic Account Manager. Valerie grew up in Winnipeg, Manitoba where she also received her Bachelors of Agriculture Degree with a Major [...]
We’re thrilled to welcome home the Western Canadian producers who took part in the 2017 WestGen Australia Tour this past January. Their 18-day trip took them all along the eastern coastline of the land down under, stopping in Sydney, Melbourne, Warrnambool, Brisbane, the Great Barrier Reef, Cairns, the rainforest, and the Gold Coast; and [...]
4-H Promotion 2017 Each year WestGen, through its Endowment Fund, supports our local 4-H dairy clubs and in doing so, helps support the future leaders of our Western Canadian dairy industry. Driven almost entirely by the efforts of volunteers, the benefits that youth gain from 4-H are hard to replicate in any other development [...]
As we do each proof round, here is an introduction to 7 new Genomax bulls that join our proof sheet and a brief description on each. Progenesis SEDUCER – Supershot x Defender – Our first sire to be released to market with an LPI exceeding 3500, he’s also our highest Pro$ bull at $2933. He [...]