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BOLIVER ACHIEVES DIAMOND SIRE STATUSDEFOREST, WISCONSIN – August 15, 2007 – 29HO10124 End-Road Pvf BOLIVER-ET*TL*TV continues to impress ABS Global customers around the world with his extraordinary longevity and outstanding udders while adding 1,285 daughters to his new sire summary information on Monday, August 13. A total of 2,239 daughters in 769 herds in his production proof qualifies BOLIVER to join the ABS Global Diamond Sire line-up. In order to earn this status, bulls must have 1,000 milking daughters in their proof. "As BOLIVER adds daughters to his global proof, he has continued to confirm his profit based customer benefits," stated Scott Bentley, Global Dairy Product Manager. “He has achieved outstanding second crop success and is in greater demand today than ever before.” BOLIVER has a unique sire stack of Amel x Mathie x Leadman. A calving ease sire, ABS Pregnancy King and ABS Durabull, BOLIVER is a great choice for dairy producers in all environments due to his excellence in health and management traits. BOLIVER daughters are bred to last with well-attached, shallow udders contributing to an amazing Productive Life value of +6.1 and Somatic Cell Score of 2.83. With positive components and +587 Net Merit, BOLIVER earns the third spot on the Holstein Association USA® Top 100 TPI list. “BOLIVER daughters are tremendously consistent and have become a Progeny Promotions Team favorite,” stated Marci Walker, Global Progeny Promotions Manager. “In addition to their outstanding udders, tremendous cleft and near perfect teat placement, he delivers extremely clean cut dairy cows with open rib.” A type and udder specialist, BOLIVER sires dairy, open ribbed young cows with great udders. Daughters are scoring well as in June, 112 BOLIVER daughters were scored with an average score of 80.84 – an exceptional average for such a large group of young daughters. BOLIVER also continues to excel in the sale ring. In fact, he sired the high seller at the Cow Power Legacy Sale, Joe-Town Boliver Lucy VG-86-2Y. Lucy sold in May for $61,000. She was consigned by Joe Town Dairy, Iowa and was bought by Todd Stanek, Wisc. Another high selling BOLIVER daughter, Lady’s Manor Marcie Babe-ET VG-86-2Y, sold for $46,000 at the Knight at Kingsmill sale. Babe was consigned by Kingsmill Farm II, LLC, North Carolina and bought by Jan DeVries of the Netherlands. Headquartered
in DeForest, Wisconsin, ABS Global is the world-leading provider of bovine
genetics, reproduction services, technologies and uddercare products. 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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