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PROOF NEWS AUGUST 2008 - 19th
News History
Tuesday 15th April
Western Holstein Club Spring Show 2008
Monday 7th April
UK Bred bulls on the rise
Thursday 14th February
Allan Hoy Presentation
Tuesday 15th January 2008
Bull Proofs January 2008 & New Apointment
Wednesday 17th December 2007
Cogent Presentation
Wednesday 7th December 2007
Get ahead of the game
Tuesday 11th December 2007
The Winning Tournament
Friday 23rd November 2007
Sexed Semen meeting a success
Friday 23rd November 2007
No Mountain to High
Friday 23rd November 2007
Northern Expo
Thursday 22nd November 2007
Holsworth Special Show
Thursday 22nd November 2007
Young Farmer of the Year
Thursday 22nd November 2007
Getting it Right with Cogent Sexed Semen
UK-bred and proven Cogent Loader EX92 emerges with a world-beating (August 2008) debut proof being the Holstein breed’s only sire to offer production figures of +740kgs milk, +3.12UK Type Merit and +3.01 Legs and Feet.
Loader is a son of Stouder Morty and is bred from a graduate of the company’s nucleus herd programme, Cogent Tugolo Looking VG88. The bull ranks in fifth position on Holstein UK Type Merit and is the highest UK-bred and proven sire on both Locomotion and Feet and Legs scores in the top 100 listings. Loader boasts a massive +2.87 on Locomotion score and +3.01 Legs and Feet and offers +2.45 Mammary, +0.2 Lifespan and +0 Somatic Cell Count.
Loader is proving a highly popular sire with UK breeders according to Cogent’s Progeny Evaluator Simon Moseley. “Loader is a very special bull that offers high production, high type, calving-ease, health-traits and a phenomenal will to milk. His daughters are predominantly jet black with beautiful udders and first class locomotion scores. The bull is ideally suited to UK environmental conditions and delivers an all genetics package,” he said.
Huddlestone Spooky Ex90 is an outcross sire and bred from another nucleus herd bred dam, Cogent Mtoto Elaine VG89. Spooky offers top PLI ratings of +£190; +511kgs milk, +23kgs fat and +22.6kgs protein. The bull also excels by offering positive percentages on fat (+0.05%) and protein (+0.08%) Spooky delivers solid UKTM scores of +1.3, low cell counts (-11), calving-ease (6%) and offers extra conditioning (+0.2)
Spooky is proving to be a firm favourite amongst Cogent’s customers by transmitting many of the desired traits required by modern-day dairy producers. The bull delivers high production, solid type and offers incredible PLI ratings.
Cogent-proven Dalbytop Phil EX95 continues to impress by offering high type ratings of +2.58 UKTM; +2.77 Mammary, +1.97 Legs and Feet and offers component level increases on fat (+0.19%) and protein (+0.06%) The bull excels on Locomotion score by offering +1.97 and offers a PLI of +£129. The bull already has 21 VG scored UK daughters and is descended from another all time favourite Holstein bloodline states Simon Moseley.
“Phil is a direct descendent of Startmore Chanel, the dam of Rudolph, and his pedigree combines many of the greatest bulls in the Holstein breed. The bull offers tremendous all round ratings and currently ranks in tenth position on the Holstein UK Type Merit. Loader, Spooky and Phil once again demonstrate Cogent’s commitment to offer UK breeder’s world-class genetics at value for money prices,” he concluded.
1st August 2008
Tom Peters from Oxted, Surrey has joined the Cogent team as a Genetics and Marketing Assistant for 12 months as part of his placement year from college. Tom is studying a HND in Agriculture at Harper Adams University College, Shropshire.
Tom will be working closely with Alison Millar, Marketing Manager and Simon Moseley, Progeny Evaluator assisting with the promotion of the Visions Young Sire testing programme. Tom quotes “this is a fantastic experience and I am extremely grateful to Cogent for giving me this opportunity to be part of the team.”
Tom has been a member of the South Eastern Holstein Breeders club for many years and has a keen eye for quality cattle. Tom has competed at National competitions in stock judging, clipping and showmanship. Tom’s successes include being a member of the winning stock judging team at the rally in Northern Ireland and being 2nd placed individual at the Royal show in 2006.
Tom also runs his own Titan herd; the first two cows to calve under this prefix have scored VG and one just recently won Junior Champion at Kent Show. Tom has also worked overseas, at Quality Farms, Ontario, Canada. Tom enjoyed this great experience, working with great cattle such as Quality B C Frantisco EX96 and many others.
For more information contact
- Photograph of Tom Peters
- For more information on Visions Programme,
please contact Simon Mosley on 01244 622046 mobile 07884 233214
simon.moseley@cogentuk.com.
16th July 2008
Dtr: Catshead Bluebell 22
Cogent Loader looks like he could have it all – Type, Production, Easy Calving and great Management Traits. His black daughters look truly exceptional on farms all around the UK; he really is the one to watch at the August proof release.
Loader is a grandson of one of the foundation cows of the Cogent nucleus herd. Cogent Looking was bought as a heifer from Holland, and her full brother Looking Major has gone on to be one of the most popular longevity sires in that country and abroad. Looking Major still has a PLI of £205, Type Merit of 1.8 and Legs & Feet +2.6 combined with a fertility index of +2.3.
Cogent Looking produced almost 11,000kg at 4.1% fat and 3.5% protein as a heifer and was flushed heavily thereafter. She has bred VG daughters by Tesk Terry, Decision, Idgil and Tugolo, and it is the best of these Tugolo daughters that has bred Loader.
Dtr: Kilnhall Emblem
Cogent Tugolo Looking 2nd was always special and went on to score VG88 and produce over 14,000kg at 4.0% fat and 3.2% protein in Bev Bakers BB herd in Gwent. Like her mother she was flushed heavily and it is her progeny that make her stand out even more, she already has VG daughters by Lancelot, Freelance and Titanic with more on the way. It is the combination of type and production in these daughters that is so special; with them all producing a long way ahead of herd average in many different herds.
Combine Tugolo Looking’s breeding power with the great type and milk proof of Stouder Morty and you get the perfect package: Cogent Loader; a very impressive long and stylish jet black bull who recently classified EX92.
Available to all on the Visions programme, at an introductory price of £13.50 a straw.
View his PROOF here
For more details contact:
Craig Davidson 07901 914160
Hugh Pocock 01244 622000
20th June 2008
A full sister to Cogent's exciting new Red sire, sold for €15,000 at the recent K&L Selection sale in Holland, she was consigned by Aryan Scholten, from the Netherlands and purchased by a syndicate of 3 German and 1 Danish breeders.
Sterndale Roseman Red is an early Advent son from a VG87 Outside sister to noted proven bull Ladino Park Talent, tracing via an EX91 Leader to the renowned Stookey Elm Park Blackrose EX96.
Congratulations to all Cogent Visions members who were the first to use Roseman Red as part of the Young Sire testing programme, we are now looking forward to the first calver hitting the ground. Roseman Red is now available as part of Cogent's growing Coloured collection.
Click here for further information
18th June 2008
Top Cogent bulls Netherside Dynamo & Dalbytop Phil join a very small group of bulls to be classified Excellent-95, now making only 9 bulls living in the UK to have achieved that score or higher.
Scoring EX95 Dalbytop Phil joins his father Crichel Principal EX95 who has just celebrated his 13th birthday at the Cogent stud. Phil is an imposing bull that moves incredibly well, scoring EX96 for Legs and EX95 for Feet. Phil's daughters are beautifully refined cattle, with fantastic udders and locomotion like their father, making them ideal for modern dairying conditions, they also show well above average fertility so will stay in the herds for a long time.
Netherside Dynamo has always been a firm favourite amongst the stockmen in the stud, and it was no surprise to them when he also scored EX95. Dynamo has incredible body capacity with a beautiful sweep and openness of rib. Dynamo daughters have the same capacity as their father, and with this produce extremely high volumes of milk with high fat and protein percentages.
Other highlights on classification day were top PLI sires Bilsrow Jock and Cogent Desmond both scoring EX93, Overside Dictator at EX92 along with new top type prospect Cogent Loader, the exciting Red bull Baileys Red Rock scoring EX91 and top allrounders Huddlestone Spooky & Stair JB Fron at EX90 completing the group of new Excellents.
The Cogent stud is one of the highest classified in the world with one EX96, three EX95 and eight EX94 bulls scored in recent years.
For more information please contact:
UK Sales & Genetics Manager Hugh Pocock -
07789 171378
hugh.pocock@cogentuk.com
Marketing Manager Alison Millar -
07802 316350
alison.millar@cogentuk.com
*Pictures available of bulls or daughters of bulls at your request
Monday 9th June 2008
The Kintyre Holstein Breeders Club recently announced the winners
of their Annual Herds Competition.
Congratulations to David Graham, West Backs Farm, Campbeltown took home the coveted 1st Large Herd and were crowned overall Herd Winners. Presented to the judge were daughters by Lucente, Dictator, Shaker and Coni.
1st Overall Production 2007 & 2008 and 1st Overall Inspection 2007 & 2008 was the Darlochan Herd of William Ralston, West Darlochan, Campbeltown. Claiming the title was Darlochan BLW Sheena - a Bakersfield Lord William daughter (Sexed Semen). This youthful looking cow has calved again for the fifth time having produced over 55,000kgs in her lifetime to date.
You can see her and her herdmates at the
Holstein Scotland South Annual Stockjudging and
Herd Visit on 21st July.
There will also be stockjudging in the morning at the farm of John Smith, Drumlea Farm. Everyone welcome!
For more information please contact Matthew Ralston on:
07739 349818
SEXED SEMEN FROM BREED LEADING BULL NOW AVAILABLE
Friday 23rd May 2008
One of the UK’s top PLI sires is now available to customers through the company’s sexed-semen product range Cogent announced this week. Cogent Desmond is the latest sexed-semen sire to be launched by the Cheshire-based cattle breeding company having previously graduated through the company’s Visions Young Sire Programme. The bull is the highest available PLI sexed-semen sire in the world and offers a PLI of +£201.
Cogent Desmond is one of the first UK proven sons of Ricecrest Marshall and offers significant improvements on production and type. His April 2008 UK production proof offers increases of +508 kgs milk, +30.8 kgs fat and +24.9 kgs protein. The bull also offers the rare combination of increasing milk components by +0.14% fat and + 0.11% protein according to the company’s Sire Analyst Craig Davidson.
“Desmond is one of Cogent’s most popular sires and the bull is now available to our customers on a sexed and non-sexed-basis. The bull transmits the complete genetics package by offering customers increases on milk, fat and protein as well as, fat and protein deviations. Desmond also delivers increases on health traits and offers a minus 10 Somatic Cell Score; +0.1 Lifespan, a 7% calving-ease and +.01 on Body Condition score,” he says.
“The bull has a modern day pedigree and his proof reflects a highly desirable sire-stack that contains many of the Holstein breed’s most popular sires. We’re delighted to launch a plus +£200 PLI bull into our sexed semen product range and Desmond has been accordingly priced to appeal to commercial and pedigree breeders,” he states.
Cogent Desmond is available to customers on a sexed-product basis of £37 The bull is available to members of the company’s Visions Young Sire Programme at a rate of £28 Conventional semen is available at £13 per dose with a concessionary price of £9 per dose for members of the Visions Programme. For more information contact Cogent on 0800 783 7258 or your local breeding advisor.
For more information contact –
UK Sales & Genetics Manager Hugh Pocock – 07789 171378
Sire Analyst Craig Davidson – 07901 914160