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Farmers today have a lot on their minds. CRV can ease their concerns with a lineup of bulls that guarantees a healthy herd, capable of efficient and trouble-free production. With the latest 2024 proof run, CRV’s bull lineup has become even stronger. Farmers now benefit more than ever from CRV’s focus on polled genetics in its breeding program. Additionally, the number of FeedExcel bulls continues to grow, ensuring breeding for a high-producing, healthy herd goes hand in hand with higher margins and lower emissions due to superior feed efficiency.

In today’s challenging economic climate, farmers around the world need cows that can produce milk and meat efficiently and effortlessly to achieve good business results. CRV’s Fleckvieh breeding program, with its strong focus on health and efficiency traits, delivers the best genetics to meet this need. Bulls that were already popular as InSire bulls have proven their worth again in this latest index run through the performance of their daughters. The breeding values of young InSire bulls show that even more can be expected from the next generation, with the quality of polled bulls also rising rapidly. CRV Fleckvieh Beef is the ideal choice for Beef on Dairy operations, known for exceptional beef quality, with ideal marbling and intramuscular fat. This rapidly growing segment within our breeding program in Germany and the Czech Republic offers PP homozygous polled bulls, all genomically tested for traits like easy calving, high daily gain, and superior carcass quality. With diverse bloodlines and male sexed semen available, we help maximize revenue from bull calves.

CRV bulls continue to deliver exceptional results for farmers, ensuring high returns under challenging economic conditions. Our breeding program focuses on health and efficiency, producing genetics that help farmers worldwide achieve high production efficiently and effortlessly. A key part of our approach is our FeedExcel breeding strategy, which focuses on breeding cows that produce more milk with the same amount of feed, enhancing both efficiency and sustainability. The latest figures from our bulls align with this strategy, showing significant improvements in feed efficiency and longevity, which are crucial for modern farming.

In order to provide a rapidly changing market with the right genetic offering now and in the future, CRV and VikingGenetics will exchange genotypes on breeding candidates for the Holstein breeding program.

2024 marks the 150th anniversary of Coöperatieve Rundveeverbetering (CRV) in the Netherlands and Flanders, a milestone to be proud of. CRV therefore won’t let this anniversary year go unnoticed!

With effect from the December index run, CRV will use a new model for estimating the genomic breeding values, the “single-step method.” This new calculation method will result in an increase in the reliability of genomic breeding values for young bulls and female young animals by an average of 11 percent.