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Brian Behnke lashed himself to the mast of the speeding genomics juggernaut when he took on the role of business manager of ABS’s globally renowned breeding business, St Jacobs. Behnke is heading to International Dairy Week in January to meet the dairy farmers and specialist breeders who flock to the St Jacobs banner for high…

In a world first, ABS Global has launched ‘Bull Search’, an unrivalled genetic guide to dairy sires across the world. Bull Search provides Australian dairy farmers with tailored data on all the bulls currently available in Australia as well as putting an incredible level of detailed information on leading sires in the key breeding countries…

ABS Australia today announced a major change to the focus of its business in dairy and beef markets in Australia. “In future we will focus on our core strength, which is delivering advanced bovine genetic products and technologies, in order to ensure our dairy and beef clients maximise the rate of genetic gain in their…

ABS Australia has once again demonstrated it is the leading provider of advanced bovine genetics in Australia with seven of the top 10 available Holstein genomic bulls, and 26 of the top 50, in the August Balanced Performance Index (gBPI). “Having seven in the top 10 genomic sires in the most recent proof run is…

ABS Australia will bring the top range of Norwegian Red bulls to Australia in August through a new partnership with Geno, the world leader in Norwegian Red bovine genetics. Through the partnership with Geno, ABS will offer dairy farmers more choices for effective cross breeding and straight breeding using Red genetics. “ABS has secured an…

New appointments in Tasmania and Queensland continue the strengthening of the ABS Australia team across the nation’s dairying regions. Peter Daley has been appointed to the position of Key Account Manager for NSW and Queensland. Peter has extensive experience in agri-business and has been involved in the animal feed industry in the Port Macquarie area….

ABS Australia is offering dairy farmers a deferred payment plan on their purchases of ABS dairy semen to help ensure herd improvement programs are not put at risk while milk prices are low. “We recognise that recent announcements that the farm-gate milk price will be dropped by major processors are tough for many dairy farmers,”…

ABS Australia has catapulted into the current genomic BPI rankings with the top seven highest scoring, available genomic Holstein sires. At number one is the much anticipated Glomar SUPERLUCKY (298 gBPI) with the outstanding number two available sire in Cookiecutter HARPER (287 gBPI). Four Generations of Lucky Cows  Superlucky descends from four generations of Lucky…

It grew out of a simple question from an ABS customer: “We already record disease cases, why don’t genetics companies use that data?” he asked. A straightforward question that led to ABS Global developing the world’s first genetic solution to transition disease problems. The transition period is one of the riskiest and most costly cow…