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December 2009
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The Jersey Cattle Society
Igenity to sponsor Jersey Championship
at National All Breeds Show
 Igenity will be sponsoring
the Jersey Championships in an innovative way at the 2010
National All Breeds Show.
Jerseys claiming the Champion, Reserve
or Honourable Mention awards will be able to double their total
prize money from the Show if they are subsequently sold in
the Elite Sale at the event.
The sponsorship strengthens the
relationship between Igenity and UK Jerseys following the service
launched in autumn 2009 enabling Jersey breeders to have their
young bull calves genotyped.
Nick Munce, Igenity Business Manager,
commented: “We
are delighted to contribute in this way towards the development
of the National All Breeds Show. Our Igenity genotyping service
is all about assisting leading Jersey breeders in marketing
their premium stock. Sponsoring the Championships in this way
helps us and the UK Jerseys Society to bring technological
advances to the attention of more breeders.
“We look forward to a very successful Show which puts
the pedigree strength of UK dairy breeds on the map.”
Remember the reasons for Jersey – with a number of milk
contracts offering derisory prices for Jersey milk, it is regrettable
that some breeders are placed in a situation where their monthly
milk price will be better by diluting herd milk quality through
inclusion of black & white milk.
For all the temptation to make the short-term switch of introducing
some black & whites in to a herd, it is worth reflecting
on the advantages of Jerseys which were, and remain, the attraction
of our breed:-
- fertility
- ease of calving
- the most efficient feed conversion
- hard hooves dramatically reduce lameness and give excellent
mobility
- low vet bills
Up turns in world milk market prices will work their way through
to the UK as existing fixed term contracts between the processors
an retailers come up for renewal. |
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Jersey Sires Catalogue
(Autumn 2009)
updated 12/01/10
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