ABS & Dairy News
ABS sires proving their worth for Australian dairy farmers
ABS has dominated the December Australian Breeding Value (ABV) Holstein daughter proven release claiming seven of the top 10 sires. Released today, the list ranked according to on-farm profit, has ABS sire 29HO18101 Larcrest CALUMET in the top position with a BPI$ of 367. Sired by popular ABS bull View-Home MONTEREY, CALUMET is also the…
Appointment of new General Manager for ABS Australia
ABS is pleased to announce the promotion of Marcus Rees to General Manager of our business in Australia. Marcus joined ABS Australia in 2014 as an Account Manager and, most recently, held the position of Regional Manager for Western Victoria. Through his time with ABS Australia, Marcus has demonstrated customer centricity, leadership and execution and…
Dairy beef semen sales skyrocket
Australian dairy farmers are looking to the beef market to diversify their income, with expectations dairy-beef animals could help fill feedlots as the drought continues to bite. In the past two years there’s been a 600 per cent increase in the volume of the new ABS Beef InFocus™ semen sold into the dairy market, something…