Bryan is celebrating more ABV success with SUPERPOWER receiving his first daughter proven breeding value and shooting straight to the top as the number one Australian-standing daughter proven Holstein.
Marketed by Genetics Australia, Emu Banks SUPERPOWER is expected to live up to his name and deliver extremely profitable and robust cows with tremendous production and strength traits.
For Bryan and his wife Jo, it”s another in a long line of successes, including CHRISTMAS which topped the bull rankings seven years ago.
SUPERPOWER graduated to the Genetics Australia proven daughter team after the April 2022 ABV release with an impressive 454 BPI and 256 ASI, easily placing him into the top one per cent of bulls available and the highest new Australian bull. He is A22, an impressive +.56% for Protein and +.27% for Fat with positive a milk ABV.
But Genetics Australia”s Western Victorian Regional Sales Manager Rodney Brooks says it”s not just production where he excels; he is equally as impressive for health traits. ‘His 105 for Mastitis Resistance, 110 for Daughter Fertility and 102 for Calving Ease with a -4 for Gestation Length make him a Total Performance Sire and will ensure he is included in many breeding programs,’ he said.
His daughters are very black, of lower stature with a “no holes” type and mammary ABV. Semen is available as sexed or conventional.
The herd”s ongoing success – including being the second ranked Holstein herd in Australia after the April proof run, augers well for the farm”s first reduction sale with about 250 cows going under the hammer at Mortlake on June 1.
‘I don”t know the average BPI but they will be good commercial cows and mostly freshly calved from February through to June. Even my very top cows are not show cows; they”re commercial and every cow gets treated equally; no-one gets favours.’
Bryan and Jo sold their second farm at Glenfyne a couple of years ago and are already enjoying the lifestyle benefits since concentrating on their Terang property.
‘I”m not going to retire but I”m going from 1000 down to 700 and enjoy life a little bit more,’ he said.
Bryan recently went to Pakistan with Genetics Australia”s export manager Rob Derksen. ‘I want to do more of that,’ he said. ‘It worked really well. A lot of the farmers wanted to talk to another farmer.’
Bryan, who sells about 20 registered genomic Holstein bulls per year, has sold bulls to Genetics Australia since 2007, usually giving the company first choice.
CARTEL, a young genomic bull at TLG with a very good Type proof, is also from an Emu Banks home-bred family.
