New Zealand breeding firm Livestock Improvement Corporation (LIC) has announced it will start operating a membership-type arrangement with clients in the coming weeks. Instead of operating legal agreements or contracts as proposed last spring, LIC has decided that farmers who use LIC elite sires will become “Premier Club” members, gaining access to top sires and entry to competitions.
No other details of terms and conditions are available.
Last spring, LIC proposed contracts that would limit the sale of bull calves to other AI companies for certain top sires.
This would have helped LIC protect its home market from sons of top sires that potentially could be sold against them globally.
ICBF evaluations
Meanwhile, the ICBF has completed the September evaluation of bull proofs and, once again, genomic proofs have dropped. On average, genomic sires are back €15 but some individual sires have fallen much more – in some cases over €100 EBI units.
Popular individual sires like SEW, WLY, PHC have all seen significant falls.
The sire FR 4021 Ballinteskin Arnold is top of the list with an EBI of €290.
The April spring evaluation also recorded a genomic overestimation and a base change correction which had caused much distress to AI companies.
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