World Dairy Expo (WDE) is truly the place where the dairy industry meets, and Semex is excited to once again be a part of the greatest show on earth!
We're excited to invite all dairymen to visit Semex at WDE and see daughters of the following popular Semex sires at the Walk of Fame Tent including:
· 0200HO05567 R-E-W Seaver
· 0200HO05588 Comestar Lauthority
· 0200HO05024 Dudoc Mr Burns *RC
· 0200HO05577 Gillette Jerrick
· 0200HO05575 Gillette Jordan
· 0200HO05592 Crackholm Fever
· 0200HO02137 Pine-Tree Sid
These sires represent some of the most talked about sires in the Holstein industry today and visitors to WDE are welcomed to inspect these daughters themselves and find out why 'Every Dose Counts' on your dairy and at Semex.
Also at World Dairy Expo, Semex is hosting a Virtual Farm Tour. WDE Virtual Farm Tours allow WDE visitors to tour dairies from around the U.S. without leaving the grounds. Presented free of charge each day during the show, Virtual Farm Tours focus on a variety of management topics, including: farm longevity, innovative reproductive tools, grazing benefits, managing transition cows, a research dairy herd, family succession, environmental stewardship and robotic calf feeders.
Semex's Virtual Farm Tour is slated for Wednesday, September 29 at noon in the Exhibition Hall in Mendota #1 meeting room and features Stewart Farms Inc., of Nampa, Idaho. Joe Stewart, manager of Stewart Farms Inc., is the third generation to manage the dairy that his grandfather started 1940. Along with his parents, Jim and Marcella, and brother Jere, Joe has expanded the farm to 500 acres and has peaked at 900 cows with a RHA of 30,000 lbs.
Relying heavily on new technologies as they become available, the Stewarts' heat detection is done through a neck worn activity system, Heatime™. This system allows them to detect the optimal breeding time, thereby reducing labor and input costs. Since implementing this system they've reached a 54.5% conception rate, reduced days open by almost 30 days, dropped their calving interval to 12.6 months and reduced services per conception from 3.4 to 2.4.
