The new indexes for August 2022 are out and the AI Total US website has been updated. Some very exciting news for the AI Total US bulls.

515HO00395 Pine-Tree LUCAS, is a huge improver in components (+0.21%F and +0.09%P) and he also adds the Kappa Casein BB gene. LUCAS gives low somatic cells (2.63 SCS) and high scores for productive live (+4.8 PL) and a positive daughter pregnancy rate (0.9 DPR).

AI Total US trait leaders for April 2022 - different bulls for different operations and breeding goals.

An enormous index run for 515HO00397 TTM Taos ENERGIZED, maintaining his top GTPI and NM$ ranking as well as an elite Dairy Wellness Profit index +1171 DWP$.

Effective with the April 5, 2022 evaluations, edit programs were revised to begin using milk-only records in the multi-trait evaluation of yield traits. Other trait groups such as cow fertility and health also will have a greater number of usable records, because edits for those traits require usable milk yield records. Previously, national genetic evaluation software required that fat yield was recorded, and milk-only records were excluded. We estimate that this edit adds nearly 900,000 milk-only records for the relevant traits.