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recording necessary to generate EBVs with integrity.
“The traits of importance to my system are gestation length,
calving ease and growth rates, and these traits deliver a live
calf with the potential to convert grass into carcass value, and
a birth that ensures the dairy mother is putting milk in the vat
and cycling quickly.
“I also need quiet bulls to keep my staff safe.”
Paul Shepherd said the Jacks and a few other Northland
farmers with integrated dairy and dairy beef systems finish
their own calves in 20 to 24 months and are ideally placed to
maximise the benefits of purpose-bred Hereford sires.
“They are the cornerstones of our client base, competing
for the low birth weight, easy calving, good growth genetics,”
he said.

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