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DIE-HARD: JOINS THE MILLIONAIRES CLUB!
DEFOREST, WISCONSIN - January 24, 2006 - 29H8538 Regancrest Rbk DIE-HARD-ET*TV VG-86 has reached an impressive milestone. This globally recognized bull has achieved the rare milestone of 1 million semen units produced and is still in strong global demand. "We are pleased to recognize a long-time customer favorite to the newly created ABS Millionaires Club. DIE-HARD joins ROY, SOUTHWIND and CONVINCER as the only ABS bulls to ever produce over 1 million units of semen. We give full credit to the ABS barn crews, laboratory teams, global sales personnel, and most importantly our dairy producer customers for this lifetime milestone," stated Scott Bentley, ABS Global Dairy Product Manager. DIE-HARD was one of the first ABS Diamond Sires when the program was introduced in 2003. ABS Diamond Sires have over 1,000 milking daughters and offer highly stable proofs and outstanding customer satisfaction. His global popularity has continually increased and today, DIE-HARD has close to 14,000 daughters and a +1570 TPI. "DIE-HARD is the 'Crown Jewel' of the ABS Diamond Sire Program," said Scott Bentley, Dairy Product Manager. “His world renowned cow family coupled with his Longevity, Calving Ease, and Udder Composite, make him perhaps the #1 bull in the breed today for total customer satisfaction and health and management trait improvement.” This Roebuck son is a Gold Medal Sire out of Regancrest Tesk Della EX-90 GMD DOM and his third dam is the great Snow-N Denises Dellia EX-95-2E GMD DOM. One of his specialties is udders where he is over +2.00 for Fore Udder Attachment, Rear Udder Height, Rear Udder Width, Udder Cleft and Udder Depth, which contribute to his +2.04 Udder Composite (UDC). Between this UDC, his breed-leading Productive Life of +2.6 and Daughter Pregnancy Rate of +2.7, it is no surprise that his daughters are standing the test of time in all environments and putting money in dairy producers’ pockets. DIE-HARD has been a long time favorite for use on heifers with his low 6% Calving Ease. Headquartered in DeForest, Wisconsin, ABS Global is the world-leading provider of bovine genetics, reproduction services and technologies. Marketing in more than 70 countries around the globe, ABS has been at the forefront of animal genetics and technology since its founding in 1941. ABS Global is part of Genus Breeding, a division of Genus plc.
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