Selection starts on paper. Before we ask a farm for a single animal we read three years of production records, somatic cell history and genomic evaluations — and then we walk the pens ourselves.
What we look at first
Milk yield per lactation tells you very little on its own. We start with persistency, then somatic cell count distribution, then fertility intervals. A herd with a tight calving block and a low cell count is a herd whose management is under control, and management is what an imported animal takes with it.
Genomics as a filter, not a verdict
Genomic evaluations let us rule out animals that will never fit a buyer’s breeding objective. They do not replace the walk-through. The two together cut our first-year cull rate on client farms by more than half.