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CRV is proud to present its latest Fleckvieh line-up, highlighting a well-balanced portfolio designed to support modern dairy farming worldwide. The focus remains on the traits that ensure cows are productive, long-lasting and functional: high and persistent milk production, strong feet and legs, well-attached udders, reliable udder health, and solid daughter fertility. All these traits contribute to cows that perform consistently over multiple lactations and perform efficiently in a variety of dairy farming systems. The portfolio also addresses the growing importance of polled genetics. Today, 30% of Fleckvieh bulls are polled, and more than 60% of upcoming bulls carry the polled gene. This reflects the transition of polled genetics from a niche option to a widely adopted, performance-driven solution. CRV continues to offer a broad range of Fleckvieh bulls suitable for automated milking systems (AMS), combining functional type, milking efficiency, and longevity. CRV also offers a broad range of sexed female semen, as well as male sexed for Beef on Dairy options, supporting producers in flexible breeding and replacement strategies across various production systems.

The Bregman family has put all the basics in place to successfully combine robotic milking with grazing. Breeding also plays an important role.

CRV places great importance on healthy and efficient cows and reliable breeding. That is why we handle hereditary defects in a conscious and transparent way. Thanks to genomic selection, we are increasingly able to identify hereditary traits. This also means that new genetic defects are occasionally discovered. For the Holstein population, two hereditary defects have recently been identified:

Breeding helps reduce labor and increase the return on investment in automatic milking. Selecting on the milking robot index results in more kilograms of fat and protein per robot per day, heifers that adapt to robot milking more quickly, and a shorter interval between milkings while maintaining or even improving udder health.

With a heritability of around 20 percent, methane production is a trait that can be successfully improved through breeding. Internationally, extensive research is being conducted into the relationship between genetic predisposition and the production of this powerful greenhouse gas. However, the potential of breeding for lower methane emissions will only be fully realized if farmers receive a financial reward for their efforts.

Jorick Tromp (32) still remembers it from his younger years: when a top cow calved of a bull, he used to be very disappointed. “When CRV introduced sexed semen (SiryX) to the market, we started using it on a few cows. We wanted to know how fertile the semen would be, and we were curious whether we would really get at least 90% heifer calves,” he says. “But it easily exceeded 90% heifer calves in his experience. And the fertility of SiryX proved hardly inferior to that of conventional semen.