Solutions for sustainable dairy and beef production

Our philosophy

As a farmer-owned cooperative, Swissgenetics’ philosophy is based on using available resources in a sustainable way. Animal production using roughage-based feed is not only

more ecological, but better for animal and human health and also more economical. Robust, healthy and resilient animals

and genetics reduce production costs.Our cattle breeds are part of a pasture-based environment which has developed unique, robust and adapted genetics.

As a consequence, livestock keepers have herds that are better adapted to climate conditions and environmental challenges.

Since 1960 Swissgenetics has been offering you the ideal breeds for your production system to ensure the most

cost-effective solution. The quality of the animals is renowned in the world.

Dr. Christoph Böbner, CEO of Swissgenetics

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The key to long-term success“Sustainable cattle production and intensification begin with the right choice of bovine semen.”

Alizée Sauron, International Project Manager

Choice of breed adapted

to environmental and climatic conditions

Essential nutrient intakes

for human health

Economic development and poverty reduction

Respect and improvement of the environ-

ment and animal health

Economic independence

in the import of milk, fodder and

supplements

Responsible production in keeping with

environmental and climate

change

Herd People Society Environment Country Planet

Global Agenda for Sustainable Livestock

The Global Agenda is a multi-stakeholder partnership emphasizing the contribution of livestock production to achieving the sustainable development goals of

the United Nations Agenda 2030.Swissgenetics has been a member of the Global

Agenda for Sustainable Livestock since 2017.

“The right breed in the right production system is key to sustainable dairy and beef production.”

Fritz Schneider, Chair of the Global Agenda for Sustainable Livestock

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We believe in sustainable development

Economic Growth Long-lasting income over the lifetime of the cow

Productive, heat-resistant and robust cows adapted to grassland

Breed improvement to sustain value creation

Animal & Human Health and Nutrition Swiss breeds are selected to achieve good production on pasture

Cows’ health and functionality are essential to improve their longevity

Pasture-raised animals are healthier for humans (feed no food)

Responsible production The right breed adapted to the envi-ronmental conditions builds resilience

Grassland cattle breeds contribute to agro-biodiversity

Cows on pasture promote sustaina-ble use of the terrestrial ecosystem

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Genetic Diversity

Genetic diversity is required to meet current production needs in various environments.

Swissgenetics is driving this forward through a more comprehensive sire selection to meet the diverse

demands of breeders.

“Through our wide range of bulls from 14 breeds we have created a unique and comprehensive

offering for breeders worldwide.”

Thomas Feitknecht, Board Member and

Head of International Sales

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Deep Cow Families

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Genetic Diversity

Altitude Adapted

RobustGenetics

Top Mobility

Cross -breeding

91% Pasture- based

Climatic Resistancy

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Our main breedsBreed diversity offers a perfect solution for every breeding strategy. Swiss cattle have been used for centuries all over the world.

We offer exclusive, robust breeds including Simmental (the original), Swiss Fleck vieh, Original Braunvieh in addition to the common international breeds such as Holstein, Red Holstein and Brown Swiss.

We selected our dual-purpose, dairy and beef breeds to highlight their characteristics.

Holstein Brown Swiss Red Holstein Original Braunvieh Swiss Fleckvieh Simmental

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Swiss Fleckvieh

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BrownSwiss Holstein Limousin Angus

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Dual-purpose breed

Simmental

• Swiss origin

• Good milk and beef performances

• Robust cows with excellent fitness traits

Simmental is an unproblematic long-living dual-purpose breed with excellent fitness traits. Simmental cattle are known for their excellent metabolic stability. The breed is particularly suitable for extensive farming: good adaptability to pasture and ability to perform even under difficult production and management conditions (originating from mountainous regions) achieving a really high protein yield.

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Peter Wyssmüller of Oberwil has won several shows. For him, this breed is particularly suitable for extensive farming. They have a very good adaptability to pasture and they are known for their excellent metabolic stability.

A SASCHA daughter won the price of Intermediate Champion at the “Feria Regional Lambayeque” in 2017.

The Grand Champion Frédo CLAUDIA won the European Simmental Show in France ahead of other countries in 2018.

In England, Richard Harrison fell in love with these medium-sized cows, with their good width, good muscularity and good udders. His herd is much healthier and he values the calm temperament of his cows.

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Dual-purpose breed

Original Braunvieh

• Swiss origin

• Dual-purpose: milk and beef

• Robust cows with high longevity

• Heat-resistant

Original Braunvieh is a typical dual-purpose dairy and beef breed. Swiss Original Braunvieh cattle can be bred everywhere thanks to their resilience, adaptability, fertility and outstanding longevity. Another strength are their healthy limbs and strong feet, which are helpful in topo graphically difficult regions.

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Farmers choose Original Braunvieh when they want a robust cow, mostly for extensive areas. This cow can go everywhere. It is able to cope with unfavorable climate, topographically difficult regions and poor fodder supply.

Modeste Ouadraogo, breeder and inseminator from Burkina Faso, finds the cross-bred cows very resistant to the environment. They use the roughage fodder better than others. This breed is more efficient in tropical conditions. They produce milk and their beef capacity is incredible.

Original Braunvieh in South Africa are particularly drought-resistant. Their production is good and the animals are more resistant. This cow is the progeny of a Swiss bull and is well adapted in the Bush Veldt.

Original Braunvieh in Mexico has a good reputation thanks to the import of live animals from Switzerland. Mexican breeders work extensively with semen doses from Original Braunvieh bulls for beef production.

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Dual-purpose breed

Swiss Fleckvieh

• Swiss origin

• Long-living, milk focused cows

• Ideal for pasture and organic farming

• Excellent functional traits

Swiss Fleckvieh is a mid-sized, well-balanced, high-yielding dairy cow, ideal for durable and efficient production in a large variety of settings. Swiss Fleckvieh breeding relies on long-living cow families with good fitness traits and udders. The cows are ideally suited to pasturing and organic farming. They are distinctive thanks to their strong functional traits.

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Adrian Stotzer loves the Swiss Fleckvieh because of its efficiency to produce meat and milk. His cows produce 7500 kg milk with his own grown fodder.

These young cattle are growing on a grazing farm in Romania.

In Kosovo Dr. Fitim Ahmeti appreciates the metabolic stability and the strong health of his Swiss Fleckvieh cows.

The farm of Derfeser in Tirol began 30 years ago with the Swiss Fleckvieh. Their excellent udders, feet and legs allow him to sell them for a good price at auctions.

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Dairy breed

Red & Black Holstein

• High milk production

• High quality udders and feet and legs

• Top international ranking for performance and type

Swiss Holstein is the right dairy cow to reach top economic performance under favorable, cost-effective production and top management conditions. The combination of tightly attached udders, top feet and legs makes the Swiss Holstein a popular breed worldwide.

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At the World Dairy Expo, Swiss Holstein breed shows strong characteristics. The O’Kaliber daughter Erbacres Snapple SHAKIRA becomes Intermediate Champion.

Red Holstein from Switzerland are especially appreciated in Colombia because of their deep family background.

Switzerland wins not only the individual contests but also the national team competition at the last European Championship in Libramont, Belgium.

Here in Estonia, the farm Tartu Agro has a highly efficient herd. His 160 cows are producing 12 000 kg a year. The fitness criteria are very important which is why they choose Swiss bulls.

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Dairy breed

Brown Swiss

• Longevity, healthy udders, heat resistance

• Ideal milk for cheese production

• Functional conformation

Brown Swiss cattle consistently stand out thanks to their milk performance in different production settings. Swiss animals are renowned for their excellent morphology.Thanks to their longevity, adaptability, fertility, suitability for pasturing, favorable calving traits and frugality, they are very popular with customers all over the world.

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Eloc Biver RENNIE wins twice at World Dairy Expo.

Brown Swiss is the ideal breed for crossbreeding. Here in the Philippines, they cross Zebu with Brown Swiss for the robustness and strong feet and legs.

The farm El Barroso from San Juan de los Lagos love the Brown Swiss for their beautiful conformation.

On the Australian farm of Andrew Burgoine, the cows have to walk 3 km in the morning and in the evening in a particularly severe heat.

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Beef breed

Angus

• High meat yield

• Excellent roughage feed conversion

• Extensive production systems

The typical beef-cattle breed Angus is naturally polled and is unicoloured black or red. The cattle have an early maturity, are medium-sized, show a good muscularity and deep rounds. Angus cows have good maternal characteristics, are easy calving and have a good milk yield. The quality of the meat is very high as is the quality of the carcass. The cattle have a very good roughage feed conversion and are very well suited to extensive production systems.

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In Switzerland, Angus is used because it is known as the best for semi-intensive beef production.

In Latvia, the good performance of Swiss Angus on large grassland areas are highly valued.

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Beef breed

Limousin

• Slim bone structure

• High meat yield

• Semi-intensive production systems

Limousin is unicoloured red to red-brown, has a medium to early maturity and is medium built. Typical for the breed is its slim bone structure. The cows have good maternal characteristics and good ease of calving. The breed generates a high meat yield and is suited to different production systems – mainly for semi-intensive systems.

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Limousin is the most popular beef breed in Switzerland.

Limousin in Hungary is highly valued for their beef quality.

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Beef breed

Simmental Beef

• High meat yield

• High dairy gain

• Excellent roughage feed conversion

Simmental beef is a persistent dual-purpose breed. With an early to medium maturity, the breed is medium to large framed with a good muscularity providing a good meat yield and a good carcass quality. It shows a good milk yield which is important for the calf. Thanks to its good roughage ingestion capacity and good ability to perform even under difficult production and management conditions, the breed has a good adaptability to pasture.

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Simmental Beef is one of the most popular beef breeds used around the world and is originally from Switzerland.

Our Partner in Pakistan, Mr. Salman Adil Khan, with a Simmental bull, son of a Swissgenetics bull.

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Beef breed

Original Braunvieh Beef

• Suited to fattening at any age

• 100 % full-blooded pedigree

• In extremely wet or dry areas

Due to harsh environmental conditions and Alpine farming, the Original Braunvieh beef is a very versatile animal: robust, resilient, fertile, long-living, efficient, adaptable and very well balanced in its body shape and color. Its strong feet and legs enable it to search for fodder even in difficult areas with sparse grass and few water sources. Its robust skin with thick brown hair and its blue-black eye pigentation can better tolerate extreme sunlight.

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The Swiss Original Braunvieh Beef is renowned for use in extensive areas. Its robustness and longevity are particularly highly valued.

In Mexico ADONIS is used for its excellent beef quality.

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Profitable Breeding StrategyThe use of beef on dairy is becoming increasingly popular.Swissgenetics provides Proven Swiss Beef genetics. This means that 500 first inseminations were made in order to first obtain a reliable result for semen fertility (non-return rate), calving ease and beef performance (daily gain, muscular development and fat coverage).

The combination of sexed semen on the best cows and beef on the rest guarantees faster genetics progress and better financial returns.

SILIAN offers higher fertility due to its composition of the three individual breeds Simmental, Limousin and Angus and is particularly suitable for use on cows with reduced fertility.

ANgusLImousinSImmental

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Crossbreeding OptionsThe variety of production systems and selection schemes provides different options for crossbreeding. Here two examples:

✔ Highly adaptable ✔ Higher income with meat

✔ Higher fertility ✔ Pasture efficiency

✔ Increased robustness

✔ Higher fertility ✔ Top locomotion

✔ Pasture efficiency ✔ Increased robustness

✔ Increased income

On high quality pasture For rougher conditions

Local LocalBrown Swiss Brown Swiss

F1 F1

F2 F2

Swiss Fleckvieh Simmental

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Swiss Quality

Swiss Quality• Registered in Swiss Herd book• Officially valued and respected• The quality of Swissgenetics semen is certified• Proven in Switzerland

100 % Swiss Origin• Breed of pure origin• Proven in Switzerland• Registered in Swiss Herd Book• Officially valued and respected• The quality of Swissgenetics semen is certified• Part of the Swiss testing system

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Our Company

We offer our customers the best bovine genetics for their production conditions and therefore make a sustainable contribution to their economic success.

We guarantee the high quality of our products and services through our comprehensive quality management.

Our strict internal standards exceed international standards and thus make each semen straw a safe and effective product.

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60 years of Success

1960 Foundation of the Swiss Association for Artificial Insemination

1966 The freezing process

is introduced

1995 New Animal Breeding Regulation opens

the market for AI

2004 The export business is integrated and

cooperation with SEMEX

2014 First Sexed Semen

in our own laboratory

2015 New Building of the

Rearing Station

2019 Expansion of the  Production center

2009 Bull SAVARD is the most widely used Red

Holstein bull worldwide

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Swissgenetics Worldwide

Swissgenetics assists and develops sustainable partnerships and supports projects promoting

intelligent breeding programs.

• Consulting• Reliable Service

• Long-term Success

Swissgenetics exports to all continents with Semex.Therefore, its products are already present in over 69 countries worldwide and ensure

the best adapted genetics for breeders.Switzerland is among the 10 biggest

exporters of bovine semen!

Palpation excercise in Switzerland

AI-Training in MongoliaFarm visit in SwitzerlandCow Scoring in a Competition in Peru

International Consulting and ServicesSwissgenetics leads and promotes know-how in artificial insemination in Switzerland and in the world, both with theoretical and practical capacity building activities.

32Organ theory course in Switzerland Selection of bulls in the headquarters

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Progeny tested beef bulls

Sexed semenproduced at the stud

Young bulls with genomic breeding values

PolledFor robotic application

(Robot ready)

Appropriate for pasture

Semen doses with twice the lifespan of

the conventional

Dual-purpose Embryos

We share lifeFor more information: info@swissgenetics.ch | +41 31 910 62 62

Swissgenetics | Meielenfeldweg 12 | 3052 Zollikofen | Switzerland swissgenetics.com

Team International: Alizée Sauron, Ingmar Kummrow, Thomas Feitknecht, Angelo Pozzatti, Urs Spescha and Christina Meier Grossrieder