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World Charolais Technical Conference
Helge & Candace By
Picturesque view at Backgården
John Wilgenbusch, the CCA Breed
Improvement Chairman and 1st Vice‐President and his wife Brenda, along with Helge and Candace By were the Canadian delegates to this year’s Technical Conference. The Technical Conference is held every other year and in between the World Congresses. The Technical Conferences are smaller, shorter and all the participating countries are asked to make presentations on the theme of the year. This year the theme was about sustainability in agriculture and how Charolais fit in, but the bulk of the discussion and presentations were on Genomics and what each country is doing.
The conference went from July 1st to 5th and started out in Skara with delegates flying in to Gothenburg on Sunday and shuttled the 1½ hours out by the host committee from the Swedish Charolais Association. The welcome supper was a chance for everyone to get caught up with the delegates from the nine participating countries.
Day 1
Skara is home to Viking Genetics, the co‐operative A.I. centre in Sweden. We had two mornings of sessions in their comfortable amphitheater.
The head of the organizing committee, president of the World Charolais Association, Vice‐President of the Swedish Charolais Association and Chairman of the Charolais Breeding Council Lennart Nilsson welcomed everyone and gave a rundown of the week. He also gave a quick overview of Sweden with 9.5 million people, 2.6 M ha (6.42 M acres) of arable land and .5 M (1.23 M acres) native pasture. The Swedish Charolais Association was founded in 1969 with about 400 members of which 40‐50 of them take part in official performance tests.
We had a lengthy presentation from Sara Wiklert Petersson, who is the Sale Manager for Viking Genetics both domestic and export. Sara is also the daughter of former Swedish Charolais president Andres Wiklert.
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Göran Månsson, Swedish Charolais Association President thanked Sara Wiklert Petersson for her presentation
Viking is owned by 30,000 producers with a stud in each Denmark, Sweden and Finland. They have 90% of the domestic market share. Dairy is the biggest part of the business. They export 1 million doses of semen a year to 50 countries. The Swedish Red breed is the main seller.
They have an extensive data base on all dairy cows which includes things like hoof trimming and all dairy info so if you use beef bulls on dairy cows you can get carcass data back. She also explained their dairy testing program for new sires.
In the beef program in Sweden, 350 bulls of a number of breeds are performance tested annually. 15 bulls are selected as “young bulls” and mated on dairy cows for calving ease and survival. From this 8 bulls are approved as “production” use and in the end 5 bulls are approved as “proven bulls” for purebred breeders to use.
We also had a short tour of the facility and saw the two Charolais bulls selected to put into the testing program from the test stations this spring that were in the stud to be collected.
After lunch Lennart and Sofia Persson, who is the Managing Director of the Swedish Performance Testing of Beef Breeds, gave an overview of Swedish Farming, Beef Production and Charolais. 10% of Sweden’s land base is used for farming. Like in Canada the southern part of the country is where the majority of the farming is done with the northern areas being rock, forest, water, etc. There are 19,000 beef farms with about 1.5 M head of cattle in total. Approximately 530,00 cows of which 350,000 milk cows and 180,000 suckler (beef) cows.
There are 20,000 purebred cows in Sweden with 14,000 in herdbooks and about 6,000 of those are Charolais. They produce about 53% of what they consume for beef, 60% of their pork requirements and 35% of chicken they eat. Most of their imports come from the EU, mainly Ireland, Netherlands and Germany.
Beef production in Sweden dropped 9% between 2011 and 2012. This lower beef production is because dairy consumption has dropped 33% between 2008 ‐2011, so there are fewer dairy cows and herds.Beef production comes 2/3 from dairy cattle and 1/3 from beef breeds.
Interestingly, Sweden has the hardest animal welfare laws in the world with more demands for veterinarians to do all work. For example, animals must be given anesthesia when dehorning, and there are rules against regular treatments, and demands for investigations makes a regular caesarian impossible. This is one of the main reasons they have gone to polled cattle with about 90% of the Charolais in Sweden now being polled. The majority of the polled animals originated from importations of live cattle from Canada in the late 80s and early 90s and continued importation of embryos and semen from Canada with some polled genetics coming from France now.
The Swedish testing system was explained in detail from what traits they are monitoring and registering, like the weights, but also things like claw health. There is also a random check throughout the year to check BW, WW or YW figures in the purebred herds.
The testing station is a 154 day test and the qualified bulls at the end of the test are sold. This year the average price was 43,000 SEK ($6,800 CAD) with a high of 140,000 SEK ($22,000 CAD) going to Finland. Two Charolais bulls each year are choosen and purchased by Viking Beef to go in the testing program. They are selected to perform well in both beef and dairy herds combining calving ease and slaughter qualities. They try to have the best bulls born every year tested with sons of Viking Beef bull offspring tested for high accuracy in the evaluation.
History of Swedish Charolais
•1959 ‐ First Charolais semen imported from Canada •1961 ‐ First purebred Charolais bull from France through Denmark •1962 ‐ First purebred Charolais females, 15 imported from France through Denmark •1968/69 ‐ Approximately 300
Charolais heifers and bulls imported from France •1970‐80s ‐ Several imports from
Denmark •1990s ‐ Cattle, semen and embryos imported from Canada •Today ‐ Semen and embryo imports from North America, Australia and
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Canada took the first presentation spot and John and Helge gave information on Canada and the Charolais Association, its members and herd book. An update on the Genome Canada project was presented with the number of Charolais bulls that are being High Definition sequenced, done at 770K and 50K and where the association was going from there. The end result of this being a genomically enhanced EPD. By the end of the week it looked like the Genome Canada project has put us right up with everyone else with Ireland maybe being the closest to an enhanced EBV. We had over 1,000 bulls done at that time as had a few other countries but most of the other countries were just at 50K and nothing close to us in the sequencing and 770K numbers.
Terrance Farrell the General Manager of the Australian Charolais Society gave a presentation on what they are up to as far as testing goes. They have been doing some extensive progeny testing on commercial females with some DNA work being done alongside to develop some training panels for the future. They are very interested in continuing this work with more projects underway and planned.
This concluded the first day of meetings and we climbed on the bus and headed for a tour of Lacko Castle and dinner. The drive gave us the opportunity to see some more of the Swedish country side and to discuss
the presentations earlier in the day. The castle was built in 1298 by the Bishop of the area and had some very old, very nice furniture and décor. Dinner was an excellent steak from Nynäs Charolais (Anders and Margareta Wiklert) prepared by a great chef in a restaurant with a great view of a large lake. It was a beautiful evening which added to the whole event.
Göran Månsson became known as Coffee-Man at the start of the trip with some healthy teasing by his guests. Later in the trip we renamed him “Phone man” as he tried to keep up with business commitments on tour
Day 2
Morning found us back at Viking Genetics with Hans Stalhammar of Viking Genetics giving us an overview of a Swedish project and an overview of genomics today. His experience in the dairy industry, which is ahead of the beef, was good as it showed what path needs to be taken and how some of this works. He gave very basic to more advanced explanations of the different chips that are used and how the imputing or extrapolating some of the smaller less expensive chips to larger numbers can be done with little loss in reliability.
Hans also explained that the Holsteins are more inbred and thus easier to do DNA tests. For example, in Canadian Charolais the most any bull has DNA of the population is about 5%. In Holstein a bull could have up to 15% of the DNA of the breed.
He talked of International proofs and how INTERBEEF, which is the beef side of Interbull, has estimates of weaning weight now in EBVs. There are two breeds, Charolais and Limousin, included in Interbeef. He also posed the question as to whether genomic evaluations across countries are feasible. Expected improvement of genetic trend after adoption of genomic selection is +50% on sire selection. Right now it is double. This tells us that using Genomics along with Phenotype to get a more accurate EPD will accelerate the genetic trends made.
Nuala Hourihane, the manager of the Irish Charolais Society, gave her presentation. They have just finished doing 1,000 bulls with HD chip. All pedigree male calves born in 2013 (about 4,000) will be genotyped with a customized chip (17K) for training population. They are working with
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Females in the pasture were marked with the initial of their sire to make it easy for visitors to identify at Backgården. This female was sired by the very popular Swedish bull Viking.
The new barn at Backgården impressed everyone
Anders Wiklert with a Pld Junction cow, an embryo that became a foundation female in their program
Above: A Nynäs gård female sired by semen from ACC Hercules 31R. Below: Wonderful salmon spread by Askome Charolais Donagh Berry, a researcher from the university and they are part of INTERBEEF. They haven’t sequenced any bulls but have co‐operation with Canada. They are very interested to exchange genotypes and believe that Interbeef is a prerequisite for accurate genomic proofs.
Dr. Robert Williams from the American International Charolais Association gave a good presentation on the sustainability of agriculture. The population increases and food needs as well as how well producers have done in improving crop yields and amount of beef with fewer cattle in the U.S. They are also doing some DNA work with 726 terminal offspring from a carcass study and about 208 purebred animals are DNAed with 50K chips. They are wanting AI sires and donor females to be DNA’d with more testing for training panels in the works.
Dr. Luis Lopez, who is a breeder and director of the Breed Improvement in Mexico, gave a presentation. He first gave us a geography lesson on the different climates in Mexico. There are 240 Charolais members with 22,000 active cows and 903 active bulls. 11,000 calves are registered every year with about 30% of those from A.I. Charolais first imported into Mexico in the 1930s and since the 1960s they have been importing genetic material to improve their herds from France, U.S.A., UK and Canada. The Mexican bred animals are getting better as they have adapted to the climatic conditions, with the imported
genetics not making as big of improvements as before. They are also moving towards using Genomes in their EPD and have been gene testing for defects and have found differences in different parts of the country due to population differences. After lunch we got on the bus and headed to Backgården Charolais which is owned by Ann Ingvar‐Nilsson. This is a very good herd with most of it tracing back to Canadian semen and embryos. She has been to Canada and has been on the breeding selection committee of Swedish Charolais. After touring the different pastures and seeing her new barn we went into the house for Fika (Swedish coffee break). We all got into Fika which they served us in the morning and afternoon. It isn’t just coffee, it also inclueds maybe an open face sandwich or cakes. Not good for the waist line when all you are doing is sitting in meetings or on a bus. From there we drove up to Anders and Margareta Wiklert’s Nynäs gard herd. This too was a very high quality herd with his foundation females being from Canadian embryos. That evening we enjoyed a cook your own steak barbecue that was attended by a number of area breeders and board members. After supper we were all asked to introduce ourselves and tell about where we were from and what we do. This was very good and got everyone mixing more with the Swedish breeders. continued on page 60 Below: Left: Anna Ingvar-Nilsson received a gift of appreciation for the herd tour and fika from Brenda Wilgenbusch. Right: Sophia Persson received a thank you gift from John Wilgenbusch for her presentation and work on the organizing committee
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Day 3
We had an early departure to start heading south to where we spent the next few days. Lennart Nilsson is very involved in farming politics and sits on a number of Ag committees. He is very well informed on the industry in Sweden, and was an excellent commentator as we drove to our first stop at his operation. He along with two brothers in‐law have a nice operation. They run 90 females and do some grain and beans as well as custom work for other farmers.
After a great salmon lunch and some local schnappes, we continued south and had a stop at a pasture of Lars Björnberg and Mellby Charolais. Lars was one of the organizers of the conference and is the treasurer of Swedish Chariolais. They have been breeding Charolais since the mid 70s and also have grain and oil seeds, sugar beets, peas and potatos in the operation.
Our final visit of the day was to a very large operation of the Ingemarsson’s called Strömsnäs gård. They have a very large grain operation and their equipment yard looks like a Canadian farm dealership. They farm 1,350 ha (3,000 acres) and run 150 Charolais. They also have been to Canada and have a heavy influence of Canadian bloodlines in their pedigrees. The cattle pasture right by the ocean so there is some nice scenery. We had Fika in a very elegant house with Elizabeth, Anders’ wife, being a jewelry and silver auctioneer and acquiring some excellent pieces of furniture and silver where she works.
We checked in to a beautiful old hotel right on the south west coast of Sweden for the last three nights.
Day 4
Part of this day was a tourist day as we travelled across Skane the southern region of the country. We stopped at Ales Stenar, which I refer to as Sweden’s version of Stonehenge. It is a very interesting place with some large rocks placed in the shape a Viking ship, which lines up exactly with the sun during the quarterly solstices or seasons. It was very interesting and dates back to around the 1500s.
Another stop was made at Glimmingehus, a medieval stronghold that was built as protection. It had many hidden defenses and this guided tour was very informative. When it was built in 1,499 this area belonged to Denmark
We continued to the east coast for lunch in the town of Ahus and then for a tour of the Absolut Vodka distillery. Established in 1879 it is now the third largest
continued on page 62 Cooking our own steaks at Anders & Marrgareta Wiklert’s home
Askome Charolais showing an example of the abundant wind energy in Sweden
John Björnberg, son of Lars, at Mellby Charolais told us about their quiet herd
Impressive 8 year old herdsire at Strömsnäs gård
Ales Stenar is at the top of a cliff on the ocean side. The cliffs were covered with poppies, something the tourists enjoy and the must farmers spray out of their fields
Above: Left: This Larry Lehman & Lee Eaton photo created a lot of fun on the bus as everyone participated in a caption writing contest. It was taken in a monkey cage we used to tour pastures. Middle: Terence Farrell, Australia, Larry Lehman, USA; Wilfried Zachert, Germany and Anders Wiklert , Sweden, enjoy fika in a home of elegant silver, china and furnishings at Strömsnäs gård. Right: John Wilgenbusch thanks Sven-Olof Hägg and family at Sonarp Charolais for the tour, supper and socializing
Michel Baudot, France, in the stocks at Glimmingehus
Fika this afternoon was ice cream enjoyed by Luis Lopez, Mexico & Robert Williams, USA
Ales Stenar brand in the world behind Bacardi and Smirnoff. I didn’t know that it was made in Sweden, so you always learn something.
From there we bused to Sonarp Charolais. Here again was a nice set of cattle with 110 cows. There are some very solid, productive cattle in Sweden. We were again joined by members of the Swedish Association for a barbecue. The hospitality in all of Sweden was great and the breeders were so welcoming. After supper we introduced ourselves, as did all the Swedish farmers there.
Day 5
Morning started with the Charolais International meeting, which we have written about in a separate article.
During this session though, Ben Harman a director from the British Charolais Society gave a presentation on what is happening there as well as presented a problem they have with badgers. There is a TB problem that started in southern England and is working its way north. It is being spread by the badgers which are on the protected animal list so nothing can be done to eliminate them. It was interesting to see how environmentalists can cause serious problems in an industry such as farming.
Flemming Nielson, a director from Denmark told of their situation. They are heavily controlled by the government in areas such as number of animals allowed per ha, as well as everything else. They have some calving problems in Denmark with dead calves reaching 4% off cows and 11% off heifers. This is something they want to address to increase their efficiency.
Michel Baudot and Cecile Laine from Herd Book Charolais gave a very detailed world overview of beef prices, consumption, production, exporting and how raising cattle can help the environment. It was well researched with an impressive power point. They went into Charolais in France. There are 2300 members and 25 employees at Herd Book Charolais. There are 130,00 registered cows with 55,000 calves registered per year. In DNA they have collected 500,000 ear cartilage DNA samples since 2002 which they are storing for future potential needs. They have DNA’d about 1,000 bulls with 54K chips as well. There are moving forward with three programs in the Genomic field so far. They are also doing 13 linear scores at weaning and on the cows. There are 27 national and regional shows, they
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The meeting concluded, everyone changed and we headed out to Simontorp Charolais which is probably the best known herd in Sweden. We had lunch and headed out to look at the herd. Per Mårtensson has been to Canada, I believe six times, and is the most versed pedigree person in Sweden. His 120 cow herd is of top quality with his yearling heifer pen being able to walk into many operations around the world and fit right in. They work with other breeders to increase the accuracy of the progeny of many sires and get the carcass results from the animals that are culled out of the program. A very sound program that has exported breeding stock to 11 countries.
The final herd tour was to a very large commercial operation that is run on a military practice field. On 2,500 ha (5,500 acres) of land they run 450 cows and finish everything organically. They have an abattoir that contracts 15 – 20 head every other week all year round. They have a mixed crossbred herd and use Charolais bulls on the herd including their heifers. Lots of record keeping and a great handling facility show the time they have put into researching better ways to get things done.
Back to the hotel for the final banquet which was fun with many speeches and farwells to end the evening. To Sweden, you did yourselves proud with a great conference, which was educational, fun and gave a full overview of your beautiful country and the great farming and livestock production practises.
Lars Björnberg received a special Canadian gift for his contribution to the organization of the Conference Kerstin, their son and Per Mårtensson were thanked for their hospitality
The ladies attending lunch at Simontorp were (back l-r) Connie Eaton, USA; Nuala Hourihane, Ireland; Kerstin Mårtensson, our host; Brenda Wilgenbusch, Canada; (front l-r) Cécile Laine, France; Candace By, Canada and Anna Ingvar-Nilsson, Sweden A No Doubt granddaughter at Simontorp
A female in Simontorp herd who produced a bull which sold to a breeder in Denmark
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Part of the crossbred herd at KC Ranch
John Wilgenbusch presented Lennart Nilsson, Charolais International President with a token of appreciation for hosting the Conference
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