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My Top 10 Ag Idioms
By: Brooke Schultz, Communications Coordinator, CRITake a deep breath and brace yourself – I’m about to shower you with a fun play on words related to agriculture. Maybe it’s just the English nerd in...
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The Holiday That Makes Your Heart and Belly Full
By: Brooke Handy, Public Relations Coordinator, CRIFor me, and I’m sure many of you as well, Thanksgiving has always been a time to reflect. What I am thankful for changes year to year, but there are...
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#RepsThatRock
Genex has a great team of Independent Contractors across the country who serve our members and customers. Each Monday morning during the month of November, we featured one of our #RepsthatRock. on the...
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Ideal Commercial Cows … at the heart of every dairy operation
Hopping in a truck and traveling the back roads of rural America … who doesn’t love this? It’s there that you see the heart of America, dairy farmers, true entrepreneurs, the original business man and...
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From a Delegate's Point of View
GENEX recently wrapped up its fall delegate meetings. Nine different meetings took place giving delegates from across the country the chance to learn of changes taking place within GENEX and an...
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A Year of Reflection, Learning and Breakthroughs
The end of December. It’s the time of year people reflect back on the past 365 days filled with laughter, success, hard times and hope. At GENEX we also like to take the time to look at our journey in...
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Top 10 A.I. Technique Mistakes
I was recently reading an article in Progressive Dairymanwhich reported the cost for days open in a dairy animal to be between $3 and $5. Many factors come into play with determining if an animal...
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GENEX Beef Goes to Denver
It’s one-mile-high, there’s a hill and a yard. Any guesses?Some refer to it as the Super Bowl of livestock shows. Now do you know?You guessed it – the National Western Stock Show and GENEX was there!...
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It's Quite a Production
Follow along on a recent trip our Audio Visual Coordinator, Todd Moede, took to our GENEX facility in Tiffin, Ohio. I think you will agree, collecting quality bull semen is quite a production.I...
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Top 10 Reasons to be a GENEX delegate
The third week of January is often characterized by blowing snow and frigid temps, but in most cases, that doesn’t stop GENEX delegates from convening in Minneapolis, Minnesota, for the cooperative’s...
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This Farm Has No Love for Valentine's Day
It was a typical cold winter day in Wisconsin, but the events that took place on our farm the afternoon of February 14, 2002, were anything but ordinary. Our farm’s main operator, my Mother-in-law,...
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It’s Calving Season
All the hard work and dedication you have put in throughout the last nine months is about to pay off – it’s calving season! Let’s turn back the calendar to late spring 2016 when you started going...
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Reducing Your New Employee Cull Rate
There goes another one down the road. It seems to be more and more difficult to keep them with your herd. No, I'm not talking about your cows. I'm talking about your new employees.As farms have grown...
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Have you ever wondered what distribution looks like at a major cattle genetics company? Well, wonder no longer! Brian Brickle, Distribution Specialist, takes us on a quick tour of the GENEX...
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Using A.I. on Your Ranch
95 cents compared to $2.28 per gallon – that’s the difference 30 years have made in the price of a gallon of gas. Just as gas prices have changed drastically, so have the wants and demands of cattle...
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Creating More Pregnancies
By: Patsy Houghton, President and General Manager, Heartland Cattle CompanyHeartland Cattle Company is a 5000-head Professional Heifer Development and Research Center in southwest Nebraska. Over the...
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PregCheck™ Rankings-The A.I. Industry’s Only Data-Driven Sire Fertility Rankings
PregCheck™ rankings are an evaluation of an individual sire’s frozen semen conception rate. The model and data collection process is a first of its kind in the beef industry.What is the validity of...
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GENEX April Sire Summary Highlights
Leading the way for the Ideal Commercial Cow (ICC$) index following the April proofsis 1HO11955 BEYOND. This Josuper son is a health trait specialist at +1.7 DaughterPregnancy Rate (DPR) and +8.7...
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GENEX Jersey April Sire Summary Highlights
It was an exciting proof run for GENEX as our Jerseys captured 14 of the top 25 spots on both the genomic Cheese Merit $ and genomic JPI™ lists!New Sires1JE00966 FUTURE {3} leads the new releases. He...
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Excellence in Genetics & Reproduction Award Winners
This year's GENEX Excellence in Genetics & Reproduction Award Winners represent six states; several are repeat winners, and for some, this is their first time on the list. However, they all know...
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