The quality young bulls that sell themselves

摘要

Semen World tests just 20 young Holstein bulls a year, it dangles no financial carrots to encourage breeders to use semen and charges 10-15 pound for a straw of unproven semen Yet chairman, and managing director, Fred Williams' philosophy is that quality sells itself and therefore no encouragement is needed to get semen dispersed through UK herds, writes SHIRLEY MACMILLAN. "We don't go for numbers, we specialise in the highest world genetics: quality not quantity," says Mr Williams. Only dealing in the best, means that 75% of young bulls are American, the rest are Canadian-bred, although this year that should change as Semen World aims to make up 20% of its young sires with UK-born - albeit North American bred - bulls.