WE’RE BEEFING UP YOUR PROFIT & EFFICIENCY
Semex Beef Up is a program designed with the beef buyer, and your beef premiums, in mind by supplying the market with quality beef calves. Beef buyers, feedlots and packers are highly satisfied with the overall product consistency, carcass traits, daily gains, feed efficiency, ribeye area and marbling quality.
Semex maintains a top-level internal product development program with partner ranches to help develop the core strength of the Beef Up lineup. If you look across the industry on the Top Dollar rankings, Semex Angus are setting new benchmarks and the gap is widening. If you’re looking for beef with an upgrade, then Beef Up is the product for you.
With the rise of sexed semen on dairies, genetic strategies via Semex Elevate® can
be used to manage heifer inventories and capitalize on the opportunities presented with beef calves. The market demands more than just a black calf. An important part of the Semex Beef Up program is our recognition of the importance for high fertility with Semex’s Fertility First™ program. And calving ease is certainly an important component when mating to beef bulls. But more than that, our Beef Up sires are chosen with a focus on carcass and yield grade, with your profitability and efficiency in mind. We use Expected Progeny Difference (EPD) figures to ensure the traits you need are delivered.
Beef Up genetics combined with best practices for raising beef calves will increase uniformity and drive your profits.
SEMEX BEEF UP | FROM FARM TO FORK
Which Beef Up Breed Is Best For Your Dairy?
USING ANGUS:
• Calving ease, smaller birth weights
• Marbling/carcass quality, less ‘visual’ muscling
• Efficient growth, fatten faster
• Largest sire portfolio to choose from
• Meets beef production chain needs
• Popular with Holsteins, beef embryos for Jerseys
USING CHAROLAIS:
• Adds mostly ribeye and muscle
• Rapid growth – sell early
• Less calving ease – increased birth weight
• Calves not black
• Popular with Jerseys
USING SIMANGUS:
• Simmental/Angus hybrid
• Weight gain, muscling, carcass yield
• Efficient growth
• Ribeye area
• Popular with Holsteins and Jerseys
USING LIMFLEX:
• Limousin/Angus hybrid • Calving Ease
• Low birth weight • Smaller frame • Strong performance • Probable black calves
• Adds marbling
• Popular with Holsteins and Jerseys
USING WAGYU (SPECIALTY)
• High marbling
• Grade higher on average
• CoA genotyping - AA desired for lower fat melting point
• Rich, beefy flavor
AT SEMEX, FERTILITY IS FIRST.
At Semex, we have one job to do… Help our clients be profitable. And, in all things bovine, the key to profitability is getting cows in calf.
Our Beef Up sires are carefully chosen as those highest in fertility based on internal testing that is verified in realtime from our clients worldwide.
BEEF UP | WHICH BEEF UP BREED?
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Research supports the advantages of Semex’s Beef Up sires. A large US dairy producing 2,000 beef calves per year was used as the study group to track and measure all parameters from birth to calf grower to feedlot to packer. The purpose was to better understand the real value from higher EPDs in performance and quality traits in the calves produced.
Male calves had significant advantages in birth weight, days to slaughter and average daily gains providing $209 on average greater value compared to female calves even though female calves had an advantage in fat thickness, ribeye area and marbling.
Correlations between phenotypes and EPDs are strong, especially for Days to Slaughter -0.8
Birth Weight +0.7 Average Daily Gain +0.7 Marbling +0.5
RESIDUAL AVERAGE DAILY GAIN (RADG) EPD RIBEYE AREA BY RIBEYE EPD VALUE PER DAY BY $B EPD MARBLING BY MARBLING EPD DAYS TO SLAUGHTER 580 560 540 520 500 480 460 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 110 120 130 140 150 160 170 180 190 200 210 MALES FEMALES 1.7 1.65 1.6 1.55 1.5 1.45 1.4 1.35 1.3 1.25 1.2 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 110 120 130 140 150 160 170 180 190 200 210 MALES FEMALES GREATER VALUE IN THE FOOD CHAIN SEMEX BEEF UP | GREATER VALUE BEEF UP SIRED ANGUS CALVES AVERAGED $70 GREATER VALUE COMPARED TO OTHER ANGUS SIRES. AVERAGE DAILY GAINS WERE 0.04 LBS/DAY HIGHER WHEN COMPARED TO OTHER ANGUS SIRES. CALF PHENOTYPE SIRE EPD
In 2020 the American Angus Association developed a dollar value index ($Values) as a specific crossbreeding tool for Angus bulls on dairy cows. By comparing crossbred progeny the $Angus-on-Holstein ($AxH) and $Angus-
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more profitable calf! $AXH & $AXJ INDEXES WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT AXH AND AXJ: • A higher number is better - $AxH ranges from -225 to 270 - $AxJ ranges from -199 to 278 • Emphasize Calving Ease • Growth to Weaning • Added Muscling • Reduced Yearling Height FIGURE 1: Relative emphasis on each trait segment in $B, $AxH and $AxJ (working from center out) Calving Ease Growth Marbling Yield Efficiency Muscling Height SEMEX BEEF UP | $A x H AND $A x J INDEXES TABLE 1: Traits included in two American Angus Terminal $Value indexes $AxH $AxJ Calving Ease * * Growth to weaning * * Post-weaning growth * * Post-weaning intake * * Dressing percent * * Yield Grade * * Quality Grade * * Muscling * * Height *
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DECISIONS
Precision tools are invaluable for dairy producers to make the most effective decisions on which animals to breed beef/dairy/sexed/ IVF to maximize the potential return for your dairy. Every dairy is different so tailored solutions that meet your needs and maximize your specific situation is what’s needed. Semex Elevate® is hands down the most advanced tool in the industry for establishing your female selection strategy. Elevate helps you:
- Determine the number of herd replacements required.
- Set your profit return as the item to be maximized and discover your custom solution that provides the optimal strategy with the greatest return for your dairy.
- Genomic test your females to get more accurate estimates of merit/potential for better decision making.
- Mate your highest genetic females to sexed or IVF/ET to get more elite heifers from your very best females.
- Find the optimal strategy for mating beef on dairy to maximize the beef premiums available and still satisfy all of the needs of your dairy.
SEMEX BEEF UP | ELEVATE YOUR HERD
ELEVATE YOUR PROFIT-MAKING
Cull IVF HEIFERS COWS Breed Sexed Breed Conventional Cull Breed Beef Breed Sexed Cull Breed Beef Cull IVF HEIFERS COWS Breed Sexed Breed Conventional Cull Breed Beef Breed Sexed Cull Breed Beef
© 2019 HIGH FERTILITY PACKAGE DECREASED DYSTOCIA INCREASED GENETIC VALUE LESS DAYS OPEN INCREASED PROFITS INCREASED PROFITS due to less calving problems from crossbred calves from more weight on bull calves PowerMix™ is heterospermic semen which contains the semen of three different sires in one straw and this combination is proven to improve conception rates. less days open Source: Ontario Livestock Markets (Brussels, Listowel, Denfield, Cookstown) 2019 Source: Cornell University Source: Dr. Kent Weigel, University of Wisconsin Source: “Review-Cost of Reproductive Diseases and Conditions in Cattle” in The Professional Animal Scientist 18:26-32 Beef cross calves demand $100 per head more than straight dairy calves 4% reduction in hard calvings by focusing on the top genetics of the dairy herd Beef cross calves will gain approximately 5.28% more yield than straight dairy calves Sexed semen produces 90% heifer calves allowing for all replacements to be retained from the top genetics of your herd. Adding profitability to dairies 15 $100 5.28% SUPERIOR FERTILITY AND EASY CALVING SEMEX BEEF UP | ADDING PROFITABILITY TO DAIRIES ADDING PROFITABILITY TO DAIRIES
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