Select Sires
Not a Single AI Wanted to Buy Him… and Still Emerson Became One of Elton’s Bestselling Sons around the World!
Do you still remember him: Ricecrest Emerson? Born in 1994, broke through in the TPI-top-ranks in 1999, and subsequently for years a globally popular sire? And that when initially not...
Intriguing Sires Polled - October 2022
With Lucius-P, there is a young polled sire in the starting blocks that is interesting for several reasons. We will start with the pedigree of this Bedrock son, who is...
Tahiti Another Pure Milk Bull from Frazzled
Just like another Frazzled son Lionel, Tahiti’s proof has surged as daughters were added to his proof, and he now finds himself at Nr.2 on the TPI charts with only...
BullTalk - October 2022
It is rare to find such a complete sire as Welcome In Our World! His name then appears to be well-chosen by breeder Bill Peck from Welcome Stock Farm, because...
BullTalk - September 2022
Cows with a slick hide (shorter and smoother hair) are able to better cope with high temperatures (see also page 7). For this reason, the number of sires with the...
Intriguing Sires - August 2022
In April, with 254 daughters (78 classified), Hancock was just inside of the top-100 TPI. The Doc son and descendant of Global Cow 2019 winner Cookiecutter Mog Hanker combines a...
Due to his False Start: The Important Message of S-S-I Duke for Global Breeding
He is one of the best sires of his generation, but: we did not discover that until later. Because it took until the arrival of his milking daughters before we...
Intriguing Sires DNA 1 - July 2022
Bari is a young bull and will become available this summer. Peter Zischg from Superbrown expects that the Italian Barca son will become popular, especially since he is a full...
Intriguing Sires DP - June 2022
‘Beatclub is now more popular than ever, as he was the big winner of the recent April release. His daughters display tremendous progress in the second lactation.’ Speaking is Bernd...
BullTalk - May 2022
‘This will become one of our most influential sires of sons,’ said Jeff Ziegler from Select Sires in the summer of 2021. This statement was confirmed in April. And how!...
Lionel The Most Extreme Milk Transmitter Ever
Bounding to the top of the TPI charts with the April proof release was the Frazzled son Lionel, with an amazing TPI of 3172. And at +3397lb of milk, he’s...
Beef-On-Dairy at Select Sires: The New BART Program to Produce Bulls for Use on Dairy Cows
Beef semen sales in the US reached a record 8.7 million units in 2021, up 21% from the previous year. Indeed, 10 years earlier only 1.3 million units sold and...