Mastitis - How being Proactive Pays Dividends Despite what you may have thought - all Mastitis is not equal – apart from most cases being commonly caused by one of several bacteria. Since Mastitis costs around $1050.31 per cow in Canada1 it needs to be taken seriously to stem the frustrating loss of money, time [...]
For many producers who have grown up either avoiding recessive traits (Mulefoot, BLAD, CVM and most recently HCD) or actually selecting for them (red factor), it is hard to get your head around the fact that the horned gene is actually recessive. In other words, the polled gene is dominant. It would be the equivalent [...]
The Best Breed the Best... But do they Breed Females? Boviteq West's IVF TEchnologies does!
True Blue. Western Canadian. WestGen. Fall Promotion October 15 - December 2, 2016 Purchase $750 of Semen to receive your Limited Edition WestGen Blue Hoodie. Your choice of Adult S - 3X or Youth X - XL available. Talk to your WestGen Sales Representative or Technician for more details. The Fine Print: Valid between October [...]
Top of the Class and Very Applicable New Genomax options making their debut in August practically sell themselves. Afterall Stantons APPLICABLE and OConnors CLASSIC find themselves near the top of the LPI listing, are early sons of their respective sires and they offer exceptionally balanced profiles producers will appreciate. Stantons APPLICABLE Silver x McCutchen There [...]
Verifying Animal Care with Monitoring Data By Dr. Glaucio Lopes Trust, but verify. This long-standing philosophy has made its way from geo-political relationships to livestock operations as people want to know more about where their food comes from and how it was raised. Fortunately, dairy farmers have a long history of verifying what they do [...]
Western Canadian Classic 2016 Junior Dairy Show The 32nd Western Canadian Classic took place from August 23-27 in Brandon, Manitoba at the Keystone Centre. 100 keen dairy youth from across the west competed for honours in Dairy Science, Fitting & Clipping, Judging, Showmanship and Conformation. Our full Board of Directors was in attendance this year [...]
Boviteq West Results Benefit All WestGen Customers You may not be a direct customer of Boviteq West. You may not plan to ever be. That doesn’t mean you don’t benefit from the investment WestGen has made to offer the IVF services to western producers. With the August proof round the first sires produced from Boviteq [...]
It’s becoming harder and harder for bulls to grab headlines based on pleasing performances from actual daughters. The Daughter Proven sire that today gets that opportunity needs to either be a Genomax sire that really delivered (and even then most people ask instead for his sons and grandsons) or excel in a specialist trait that [...]
Grand Opening Celebrations It was such an honour to have so many familiar faces join us at the Grand Opening of Phase 1 of the new WestGen facility on August 16 — representatives from our Provincial, Regional, and Municipal government; Semex partners, past and present Board members and staff, industry partners, suppliers, friends, and [...]