Sexing Technologies® (ST), the industry leader in sorted semen technology, is pleased to announce that a second gender-sorting semen lab is now operational in Australia. This lab, based in Rockhampton, Queensland at the QC university is the first facility in Northern Australia. The lab will gender sort primarily beef semen, particularly Bos indicus and Bos taurus breeds, many of which will be eligible for export to various countries including the European Union and China.
“At Sexing Technologies®, we are committed to bringing the most reliable, technology-driven solutions to the industry and this second gender-sorting lab in Australia is another way for us to meet that need,” says Juan Moreno, Sexing Technologies® Chief Executive Officer. “It allows us to reach additional Australian customers and help them meet their profitability and sustainability goals.”
According to Neel Ganesan, Sexing Technologies® Rockhampton lab manager, most of the new business in this lab will likely come from beef seedstock operations, pastoral companies running their own genetic development programs, and larger private commercial cattle producers undertaking AI or ET work.
“Beef cattle producers are seeing a lot more value in gender-sorted beef semen, by either choosing male or female sorted semen,” Ganesan said. “In our Camperdown (dairy oriented) laboratory in Victoria, most of the gender-sorted semen produced and sold is used to produce females. But there can be demand for both male and female calves at different times in the beef industry – producing female replacement heifers, based on drought events, and males at other times for production reasons.”
All the gender-sorted product at the Rockhampton lab will be available in Sexing Technologies® revolutionary Ultraplus™. A new gender-sorting semen technology, adding the most innovative improvement to the sorting process, Ultraplus™ results in the highest Conception Rates ever seen before in the dairy industry. Available at > 90 percent of desired gender from Sexing Technologies®, Ultraplus™ is poised to meet the growing demand for gender-sorted semen which has doubled in the global usage over the past five years.
Since gender-sorted semen hit the market, Sexing Technologies® has been at the forefront of the technology and in constant search of ways to improve the process and ultimately, the results for farmers. The products so far have been SexedULTRA® with 8 percentage points in fertility increase over the original, then SexedULTRA 4M® with another 3 percentage points in fertility increase and today, there is Ultraplus™ with an additional 3 percentage points improvement in Conception Rate.
Sexing Technologies® commitment to improvement has led to the development of Ultraplus™, the highest fertility gender-sorted semen in the world. This increase in fertility was achieved by further refining the Sexing Technologies® revolutionary sorting process. Ultraplus™ is ready to meet the growing demand of gender-sorted semen, in both the dairy and beef industries.
With 53 owned and licensed labs in 20 countries, Sexing Technologies® is the pioneer in gender-sorted dairy and beef semen and provides over 80% of all gender-sorted semen around the globe. With these resources, Sexing Technologies® strives to serve and assist farmers in achieving all aspects of their genetic goals while bringing profitability and sustainability to the dairy and beef industries.
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