News Archive

2012-06-16 Viking News No. 02-2012
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2012-06-11 Report from Viking Tour to Denmark and Sweden
Jarred Burland represented Nationwide at our Denmark and Sweden tour in April. Click here to read his report from the trip.

2012-05-27 Viking Red Sires Dominate In Australia
11 out of the top 14 cows in Australia on APR is sired by Viking Reds! The outstanding sire is Peterslund who is sire to 7 of the top 14 cows. Click here to view the top APR cows in Australia.

2012-04-28 Herd Health Improvment Manual / Sire Directory 2012
Our 2012 catalogue is now available! You can find it using this link or click on Sire Catalogues in the menu above. For a printed copy please contact us on 02 6071 3007 or info@vikinggenetics.com.au.

2012-04-28 VikingGenetics Tour April 2012
In April 2012 VikingGenetics hosted a tour to Denmark and Sweden. Click here to read a report from Jersey classifiers, Alan Carson and Geoff Heazlewood.

Tour participants outside VikingGenetics head quarters in Assentoft, Denmark

2012-03-07 Viking News No. 01-2012
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2012-02-20 - Newsletter and Price Updates
Click here to read the latest newsletter. All our prices have been updated for 2012.

2012-02-05 - High NTM = More Profit
Click on the images below to see what NTM means for the different breeds.

2012-01-23 - A2/A2 Bulls
Click here to see the full list of all available Viking Genetics A2/A2 bulls.

2012-01-18 - Holstein and Jersey Newsletter
Click here to read the newsletter about the most popular Holstein and Jersey siers in 2011.

2011-12-27 - Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Click here to read the newsletter about the most popular red bulls for 2011.

2011-12-05 Viking News No. 04-2011
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2011-12-01 - Tour to Sweden and Denmark 2012
Following the success of the tour earlier this year we are now inviting you to come along to our 2012 Sweden and Denmark tour. Departing Melbourne on the 9th of April and returning 19th of April. The cost for airfares are approximately $2,000. Total cost for all accomodation, food (except a few lunches) and travel while in Denmark and Sweden is approximately $2,450 - $2,700 depending on numbers. Spots are limited, contact our office for further details and to make your reservation now!

2011-11-21 - Sexed Semen Sale!!
Viking Genetics is pleased to offer farmers sexed semen for a WOW price of $45 from our top bulls. This offer is only available for semen ordered between 1/12/11 to 28/02/12 for 2012 use. The payment of this semen is not due till the farmer actually requires it. This is too encourage farmers to order their 2012 semen ahead of time. Click here to see our attached flyer for information and please call us if you have any questions.

2011-11-11 - Visit us at the Future Ready Dairy Farms EXPO - Bega
Viking Genetics Australia will be at the Future Ready Dairy Farms Expo in Bega between the 18th - 19th of November. We are looking forward to meeting you at our stand!

2011-10-26 - Danish Jersey Success in South Africa
Chris Cloete has written this article about the experience of Danish Jerseys in South Africa.

2011-10-16 - Limited semen of Rakuuna in Australia
Holstein bull Rakuuna put down, nine years old. Rakuuna who was born in Finland in 2002 at breeder Jorma Kauppinen's farm. He has been an excellent example of a real VikingGenetics bull - all the way through with very strong health traits and a high NTM. At the august index evaluation Rakuuna still had an NTM +25. In total there were exported 170,000 doses of semen of Rakuuna worldwide including countries like Australia, England, Holland, Germany and Italy.

In recent years Rakuuna was housed in Assentoft, Denmark, where he produced conventional as well as X-Vik semen. Back problems however meant that he had not produced for a longer period of time, which meant that he was put down last week.

Viking Bull Power FTW!

2011-10-09 - Two New Sires
We now have two young GENVIK PLUS sires! Genvik Plus are the cream of the genomically selected young sires based on their genomic information. Viking is leading the way in genomic selection of Red Sires, being the only
company that can offer red sires due to their strong population!

VR GIBSON - No.1 Rank NTM +28, Gunnarstorp x O Brolin x Peterslund. VR Gibson will provide a nice outcross line being sired by Gunnarstorp and then the reliability of O Brolin and Peterslund on the Dam and Granddam side. Gibson has a great total profile with a production index of 115, positive on all health traits, with super Longevity 135! Nice feet and legs and strong udders, higher rear attachments with strong fore udder and ligament.

VR BALFA – No.5 Rank NTM +20, Bangkok x R Alfa x Vest Baek. Balfa is a Bangkok son and offers plenty of body depth and rump width. Good health traits, but not suited to maiden heifers with a calving ease sire effect of 90 (similar to his sire 88). Balfa offers a little
something different on the Dam and Granddam side in R Alfa and Vest Baek. R Alfa sired powerful cows like Bangkok does and had great health traits, Vest Baek cows had nice udders with good temperament and milking speed and easy calving daughters.
Balfa offers longer teats than Bangkok and super milking speed of 120! He is stronger for fertility and other diseases than his sire.

Top Genomic Plus sires are an exciting opportunity for red enthusiasts to make faster genetic gains in your breeding programmes and these two sires are priced at $20 per unit.

2011-10-09 - Stockdale Sale
Our stockdale sale is now on for Viking’s proven older sires that have very limited stock available. These sires represent excellent buying; especially if you order over 30 doses of semen from our proven sires in any Viking Catalogue (Reds, Holstein and Jersey), then you can purchase them for $12 per unit instead of $15 per unit. Click here for full details.

2011-09-11 Viking News No. 03-2011
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2011-09-06 - Peterslund No. 1 In Australia
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2011-08-28 - Video of Holstein and Danish Jersey
Our "Holstein and Danish Jersey" DVD is now available! If you are interested in receiving the video on a free DVD, please contact us.

2011-08-28 Additional reports from Denmark and Sweden
Following the trip to Denmark and Sweden the following resellers wrote these reports on their experience:
Jarred Burland - Click to read report.
Jonathan Thomas - Click to read report.
Rod Brasher - Click to read report.

Jarred Burland, Matt Kimber, Jonathan Thomas, Rod Brasher

2011-07-29 Report from trip to Denmark and Sweden
In the beginning of July a group of resellers and a farmer went to Denmark and Sweden to look at daughters from our bulls. The farmer Matt Kimber wrote this report on his experience.

2011-06-30 Recommended Matings For Viking Reds
Click here to read about recommended matings for Viking Reds.

2011-06-12 "Bull health traits can beat fertility issues"
In the last issue of The Devondaler our sales manager Erik Thompson explains how you can benefit from using Viking Genetics bulls. Click here to read the article.

2011-06-09 Viking Genetics Australia Forum
You are hereby invited to join the discussions about our bulls and products on our forum. Use this link or click on Forum in the menu above to get to the forum

2011-06-01 Viking News No. 02-2011
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2011-05-27 - Viking Sire Catalogues
Our Viking Red and Holstein/Jersey sire catalogues are now available online under Sire Catalogues in the top menu.

2011-05-21 - Viking Red Sire Catalogue
Our new Viking Red Sire Catalogue is now ready. Please contact us to order your free copy. An electronic version will be made available on our webpage next week.

2011-05-21 - Video of Scandinavian Reds
The following video shows some of the highlights from our "Scandinavian Reds at Beaulands herd DVD". The video was recorded at Beaulands herd in Nowra Australia. If you are interested in receiving the full video on a free DVD, please contact us.

2011-05-18 Viking Genetics Australia present Viking Red Bulls
Viking Genetics would like to announce that VikingGenetics Australia is now marketing the Viking Red breeds (Swedish Reds, Danish Reds and Finnish Ayshire) among the already existing Viking Holsteins and Danish Jerseys in Australia . The new bulls can be found in the Viking Red section.

2011-04-30 - Video of Rakuuna daughters

2011-04-20 - Two Sires for Holstein maiden heifers in Australia
Use this link to read about D Odder and D Sol, two sires that have great calving ease scores to suit the joining of maiden heifers for Australia.

2011-04-20 Select Sires Jersey Journal
A group from Selected Sires visited Denmark earlier this year and the feedback was great. Use this link to read their comments.

2011-04-10 NTM and GenVik PLUS Flyers
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2011-04-10 Dam of D Sol at the AgroNord Show 2011
At the AgroNord Show 2011 Viking showed the dam of D Sol (P Shottle x T Funkis x VE Otto) with one of his many fine daughters. The dam is owned by Per Varming and has impressing production of 104,000 kg milk in life time production. The photo shows that she is still in fine shape and combines high production with health and amazing longevity in the best way. This is promising for the many daughters after D Sol – in milk in future in many countries all over the world. D Sol is superior in female fertility, udder health, other health, fat and protein in milk, prime feet & legs, and functional mammary – exactly like the dam of D Sol!

Dam of D Sol (104,000 kg milk) with a daughter after D Sol at the AgroNord Show 2011.

2011-03-17 Viking News No. 01-2011
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2011-02-20 New sire catalogue!
2011 Sire catalogue is now availble online, click here to download. You can also contact us at the office 02 6071 3007 or call one of our salesreps to have a free printed copy posted to you.

2011-02-20 Two new amazing Holstein sires available
D Sol and D Odder. Viking has specifically selected these two sires as calving ease bulls you can use on your maiden heifers. Because of the excellent health data that is collected in Scandinavia we were able to pinpoint these two sires for Australia. Their job is to give you a trouble free calving season!

2011-02-20 Updated breeding values
The breeding values for all the sires are now updated on the website.

2010-11-22 Holstein comments
Comments about our Holstein bulls can be found here.

2010-10-26 Facts you should know...
Click on this link to learn all the facts you should know about Viking Genetics.

2010-09-27 Jersey Comments
Comments about our Jersey bulls can be found here.

Premiere for VikingGenetics in Australia!
Welcome to VikingGenetics Australia, the Australian respresentative of VikingGenetics.

No other AI company in the world has a stronger line-up of proven bulls than VikingGenetics. The company in Denmark, Finland and Sweden currently puts more than 500 bulls through progeny testing every year, after a critical selection of bull calves with the help of genomic selection.The unique registrations of cow's performance as well as treatments and a selection for health and fertility that has been going on since 35 years, makes VikingGenetics the leader for selection of an economic cow.

The NTM (Nordic Total Merit Index) helps you to pick the bulls giving the profitable daughters.

We breed for functional conformation. Strong cows, medium angularity, strong feet and legs and healty hoofs. Well attached mammary system with teat placement matching modern milking systems.

Use one of the worlds largest breedingprograms and gain more profit!