Semex works hard to ensure that our customers have the most desirable and profitable genetics available to them. December's graduates are no exception, with Semex being among the first to deliver proven bulls from some of the world's most popular sires to the marketplace. This includes sons of Lou, Bolton, Toystory and our own internationally famous Goldwyn. These new release sires represent not only what breeders loved about their paternal breeding pattern, but they've also got a deep maternal line, with profitability built into their pedigrees and, now it's proven in their genetic evaluations.

• The industry's #1 newly proven Lifetime Profit Index (LPI) sire is also Semex's #1 new release sire, 0200HO03591 Beaver Ray Mural EXTRA. Mural is the breed's #1 Toystory son and posted impressive figures on his debut run including +110 Herd Life, +107 Dtr Fertility, +131 kgs combined Fat & Protein and 2.85 SCS. And, with +1359 kgs of milk and a +11 Conformation he stands alone as one of the most desirable options in the top 10 LPI. Mural's dam, Beaver Ray Titanic Mira EX-94 EX-96-MS-CAN, is one of the world's highest classified Titanic daughters and has two Superior Lactation awards with exceptional fat production to 5.1% in her two-year-old record of over 13,000 kgs in 305 days. Her dam is a VG-87 6* Outside with one Super 3 and three Superior Lactation awards herself, followed by three more Semex-sired dams all with exceptional production awards and extreme fat averaging over 4.0%, including a Starbuck fifth dam with 10*, three Super 3 Awards and six Superior Lactations! Expect this high fertility Repromax™ and Health$mart™ Toystory son to deliver hard-working, milky cows designed to be profitable in operations everywhere!
• Semex's Bolton son, 0200HO03603 Gillette Stanleycup EX-90-CAN EXTRA, takes the #1 Conformation title at +19 and delivers a 'no holes' proof of +105 Herd Life, +15 Mammary System, +16 Feet & Legs and +14 Dairy Strength with a +0.30% Fat. The field reports on this Designer Series™, Repromax™ and Health$mart™ sire tell us these daughters are the well-made kind that dairymen really appreciate working with. Stanleycup's dam is the former #1 LPI cow, Gillette Blitz 2nd Wind VG-88 27* with 15 VG progeny herself, including one of the world's most in-demand sires, Semex's 0200HO03501 Gillette Windbrook. Next dam is Braedale Second Cut VG-86 23*, the Storm daughter of the family matriarch Gypsy Grand VG-88 37*.
• One of the world's first proven Lou sons, 0200HO03608 Velthuis Solstice VG-CAN, is also the first proven son from a Goldwyn dam! Solstice offers dairymen a great combination of solid conformation at +10 Conf, +13 Feet & Legs from mammary systems with a +12 Median Suspensory, +12 Fore Attachment and +12 Rear Leg Rear View, along with great those traits that designate him a Health$mart™ sire including +107 Herd Life, 2.74 SCS, +104 Dtr. Fertility, +104 Calving Ability with extremely solid components. Solstice's dam was one of the most famous second crop Goldwyn daughters, Gen-I-Beq Goldwyn Sofia VG-87 3*. Next dam is Durham Sherry VG-87 6* from the famous Glen Drummond Shower cow family.
• 0200HO02331 Mr Marvelous is Semex's second highest Toystory son from a maternal line that breeders worldwide are very familiar with... His dam is the VG-88 DOM Finley dam of Semex's type specialist 0200HO02137 Pine-Tree Sid. Mr Marvelous is a high fertility Repromax™ and Health$mart™ sire, delivering tremendous udders at +2.88 UDC. This score makes him the breed's #23 UDC bull and the #4 Fore Udder bull at an impressive +4.04 FU. His positive production and deviations help to make him a high GTPI sire, at +2041 with +1122 PTAM, a +1.3 Productive Life and +416 NM$.
• Dairymen looking for a different kind of Goldwyn son will be excited to use 0200HO02366 West Port Arron Doon Mitey P *RC. Mitey P is a unique Goldwyn son being both red carrier and polled while offering traits that made Goldwyn famous including low 2.58 SCS, +107 Herd Life, +0.48% Fat and +0.14% Protein from desirable conformation. Mitey P's dam is a VG-85 red September Storm with 2-11 305 14,206 5.0 706 3.2 457 kgs and two Superior Lactation awards. Next dam is a red VG-88 1* Richesse Steven with a Superior Lactation award and over 53,000 kgs lifetime, followed by two more VG dams.

Numerous high-profile, high-ranking sires continue to prove they are among the best in the business including:

• One year after he debuted as the #3 LPI sire, 0200HO03501 Gillette Windbrook EX-94-CAN EXTRA, is back in the #3 LPI slot, after climbing 229 points led by gains in production, with an unwavering conformation proof of +17 Conformation (#5 in the breed). This EX-94 EXTRA FBI son is an internationally popular sire of sons, boasting an 80% GP and better rating on 132 daughters and carries Semex's Designer Series™ and Health$mart™ status.
• Dairymen looking for milk continue to make good use of Semex's Marion son released in April, 0200HO03559 Vioris Sleeman EX SP. Sleeman continues to be one of the highest milk bulls available today at +2466 kgs with an impressive +69 Fat and +87 Protein, making him the #2 Protein and #7 Milk bull in Canada. In the USA rankings, he's an impressive +2239 PTAM and +74 PTAP, making him the #8 milk and #2 protein bull on the International 1500 Rankings of Bulls With Dtrs.
• Semex's Designer Series™ and Health$mart™ sire, 0200HO02235 Smithden Admiral VG-CAN EXTRA remained virtually unchanged in his conformation and functional evaluations, with an impressive +108 Herd Life, 2.80 SCS, +104 Calving Ability and a solid +10 for both Conformation and Mammary Systems. His +0.29%F with a combined fat and protein of +128 kgs make him an extremely profitable choice for dairymen worldwide.

For more information on these sires or any of Semex's growing suite of programs designed to increase real dairy profitability, please visit www.semex.com or contact your local Semex representative today for additional information!