Designations Explained

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FeedPRO® optimizes the selection for increased production and moderate body size while maintaining body condition score and daughter fertility. This revolutionary index designates sires with the genetics to improve income over feed costs and maintain health and reproductive traits.

RobotPRO® identifies sires that transmit the desired traits for robotic milking systems. These sires were selected by focusing on component and milk yield, milk quality, udder health as well as functional udder traits. Use these sires to create the next generation of profitable cows for your specific milking system.

The FertilityPRO® designation identifies sires with semen that will likely improve pregnancy rates. This designation is assigned by examining industry service sire conception rate values, along with intensive inhouse semen quality evaluations.

GrazingPRO® sires are selected to improve the profitability of grass-based production systems by transmitting greater longevity, better mobility, moderate stature, improved component yields, and superior production - all while not compromising fitness traits such as Daughter Pregnancy Rate (DPR) and Somatic Cell Score (SCS).

Sires earn the Showcase™ designation through outstanding breed-leading Type or showwinning pedigrees. Turn to this designation to produce your next show winner or improve the overall type in your herd. If you want the most reliable sires available for your breeding program, look for the Progeny Proven icon. The icon designates sires with an evaluation based on both genomic data and actual daughter performance data.

®FeedPRO, FertilityPRO, GrazingPRO and RobotPRO are registered trademarks of Select Sires Inc. ™Showcase, Elite Sexed Fertility, genderSELECTED, genderSELECTED 4M, GForce and GForce+ are trademarks of Select Sires Inc., and SexedULTA is a trademark of Inguran LLC. Throughout this directory, you will find sires branded with these special designation icons. Ulitise these icons to easily navigate towards sires that suit your farming system and breeding criteria.

Look for the gender SELECTED™ icon to identify sires with sexsorted semen available. More heifers is not out of reach with our research-backed gender SELECTED sires. All gender SELECTED semen is processed using SexedULTRA technology.

The Elite Sexed Fertility™ icon designates sires that can help you achieve the highest sex-sorted semen conception rates, enhancing your return on investment! This innovative designation distinguishes our highest performing sires for sexsorted semen in both 2M and 4M products.

GForce™ indicates sires with elite genetic evaluations based on a combination of traditional pedigree data and genomic data, but does not contain actual daughter data. This combination of data increases the reliability of a young sire’s genetic prediction prior to the availability of actual daughter data.

The GForce+™ lineup includes genomic young sires selected based on rigid semen quality standards and their high-ranking Sire Conception Rate (SCR) from progeny test semen usage. GForce+ sires must have outstanding genetic merit, a highly reliable sire stack and actual calving ease observations.