BullWise new main distributor for CRV bulls in Ireland and Northern Ireland
The young Irish breeding organization BullWise and the Dutch-Flemish cooperative CRV are proud to announce that they collaborate from January 1, 2023.
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Cartoon P Red and Factotum: outstanding PLI bulls
Delta Cartoon P and Peak Factotum are two brand new bulls CRV had added to its portfolio.
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As part of our future plan, exciting opportunities have arisen at CRV United Kingdom for a number of: Breeding Sales Advisors
Leading in health and efficiency in US Holstein population
The United States is a leading centre of Holstein breeding. CRV operates its own breeding programme there, which has resulted in a broad, internationally competitive offering of top-ranked TPI bulls. CRV's bulls are unique thanks to the exclusive breeding values for feed efficiency, CRV Health and CRV Efficiency.
The sixteen 100-tonners on the Knoef family farm bring a smile to your face
They are almost all older than ten years, have each produced more than 100,000 kg of milk – and some of them even 10,000 kg of fat and protein – and together account for a staggering 1.8 million kg of milk! This exceptional performance inspired CRV to make a video of these sixteen absolute champions in milk production owned by dairy farmers Jos, Ingrid and Ben Knoef in Geesteren. Eleven of these animals have a CRV pedigree or originate from CRV's breeding programme.
Breeding for feed efficiency increases utilisation of roughage intake
A higher feed efficiency is directly linked to better roughage utilisation. This is the concision of researchers from the Animal Breeding and Genomics group at Wageningen Livestock Research based on analysis of a data set containing the feed intake, weight and milk production data of more than 3000 cows.