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KEMPTVILLE, Ontario, June 7, 2007 — Select Sires Canada starts off the summer with the highly anticipated, new-release bull 7HO7746 Mr Derry PROMOTION and four other new graduates that tip the scales for conformation with balanced production traits.

NEW SELECT SIRES GRADUATES

PROMOTION graduates into Select Sires’ active lineup as the No. 4 conformation sire at +17 (77% Rel.). He hails from two-time World Dairy Expo supreme champion Vandyk-K Integrity Paradise (EX-96-2E). The next two dams are Excellent and all three dams produced over 13,000 kilograms of milk with Paradise’s top record at 5-10 365d 17,991M 4.2% 759F 3.3% 588P Kgs. PROMOTION is a positive production bull (+504M 82% Rel.) and will best influence fat production at +0.23% Fat.

7HO7615 Solid-Gold COLBY-ET is designated HealthMark™ because of his exceptional health and fitness traits. Sired by Comestar Outside-ET, he stands third among Select’s U.S. lineup for PL (+5.6 57% Rel.) and second for DPR (+2.8 58% Rel.). He is also No. 25 on the Top-100 TPI™ list at +1754. Finally, he produces stylish daughters at +2.21 Type (87% Rel.) and +2.61 UDC.

7HO5375 Mara-Thon BW MARSHALL-ET sons 7HO7858 Rauscher Mars 999-GRAND-ET and 7HO7838 GLEN-Valley BW Captain-ET enter Select’s proven lineup as type specialists. At +3.01 Type (79% Rel.), GRAND ranks among Select’s top-10 for both Foot and Leg Composite (+2.72) and UDC (+2.32). GRAND is a Herdlife Builder™ and Superior Settler™ and reduces calving difficulty at 7% CE (86% Rel.). GLEN possesses many of the same impressive qualities at +2.88 Type (81% Rel.). He is dubbed a Superior Settler and calving-ease sire at 7% CE (72% Rel.). GLEN is an udder specialist at +2.33 UDC, particularly improving rear udder height (+3.20) and rear udder width (+3.44). GLEN also offers high components at +0.6% Fat and +0.3% Protein (87% Rel.).

The final graduate is the naturally polled and Red bull 7HO8223 Aggravation LAWN BOY P-RED. He offers a unique sire stack (Dudoc Bacculum-Red-ET x Ha-Ho Cubby Manfred-ET x Madawaska Aerostar), positive health traits (+4.4 PL 52% Rel. +1.7 DPR 51% Rel.) and is calving-ease at 7% CE (92% Rel.).

PGAC™ GRADUATES DOMINATE CONFORMATION RANKINGS

7HO7020 To-Mar D-FORTUNE-ET is again the No. 2 Conformation sire at +18 (78% Rel.) and the No. 1 LPI (+1768 LPI) 7HO5157 Regancrest Elton DURHAM-ET son in Canada He is +15 for Mammary System with top values for rear udder height and width, and fore udder attachment. FORTUNE is a components specialists with +0.15% Fat (89% Rel.) and +0.35% Protein with positive production.

7HO7653 Plain-O Durham ROSS-331-ET, a DURHAM son, follows in his high-type father’s footsteps ranking No. 6 with +16 (80% Rel.) for Conformation and +15 for Mammary System. He ranks in the Top-50 LPI (+1588) and is a calving-ease sire.

7HO7514 REgancrest DESIGN-ET is a conformation and fat specialists with nearly 1,000Kg of Milk. At +14 (88% Rel.) for Conformation and +13 for Mammary System, RE DESIGN also ranks in the Top-50 for LPI at +1551.

The 7HO5708 Fustead Emory BLITZ-ET son, 7HO7777 Far-O-La DJ Blitz DOMINANT, follows in his famous father’s footsteps with +2,045Kgs. (86% Rel.) of milk and a top-LPI of +1717. DOMINANT, a calving-ease sire, also rates +12 (77% Rel.) for Conformation and +13 for Mammary System and his daughters rank among the best for Durability and Production.

Based in Kemptville, Ontario, Select Sires Canada Inc. is Canada's fastest growing A.I. organization. It provides highly fertile semen as well as excellence in service and programs to achieve its basic objective of supplying livestock breeders with the best genetics available at a reasonable price.

™TPI is a trademark of Holstein Association USA.
™HealthMark, Herdlife Builder, Program for Genetic Advancement Canada, PGAC and Superior Settler are trademarks of Select Sires Inc.

Source: 05/07 U.S. Department of Agriculture, CDN, Interbull, Holstein Association USA and Holstein Canada.

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