The CRV Difference – breed for health and efficiency

CRV Exclusive: Facial Eczema

Genetic tolerance offers the best protection against Facial Eczema (FE).

Increased tolerance to FE challenges results in healthier cows and improved production.

Exclusively from CRV, using FE tolerant sires in your breeding programme is an environmentally friendly and safe way to help increase your herds’ tolerance to FE challenges, resulting in healthier cows and improved production.

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Best Polled Options

CRV offers a team of local and overseas homozygous polled bulls. Homozygous (PP) polled bulls guarantee the birth of polled calves, meaning the progeny of polled bulls will not need disbudding.

This saves time and expense and improves animal welfare with less stress on the calf.

  • When a bull has two copies of the polled gene (i.e. homozygous) you are guaranteed the bulls progeny will all be polled, because all of them will get one copy of the polled gene.
  • Conversely, bulls with only one copy of the polled gene (i.e. heterozygous) does not guarantee polled progeny, but there is a 50% chance of progeny being polled.
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Selecting the Best

CRV’s breeding team has a long history of sourcing the best bulls for our customers.

Bulls are sourced from:

  • breeders
  • our nucleus programme
  • mating contracts
  • and the open market

CRV is also ensuring faster genetic gain by using genomic testing to identify the potential of animals earlier.

Sexed semen

Create replacements from your best cows using CRV’s sexed genetics to increase milk production, reduce bobby calves, and increase dairy beef income.

Reasons to use frozen sexed genetics from CRV include:

  • Sexed semen is available from CRV’s highest indexing bulls, recognising that farmers want quality replacements from their best cows.
  • You’ll have more control. Get exactly the sire you order and manage their mating allocation on the day.
  • Combine use of sexed semen with Estrotect Breeding Indicators for best conception results.
  • Each pregnancy from sexed genetics gives a 90% chance of a heifer.

The use of sexed genetics continues to grow in New Zealand with CRV investing in technology to give farmers access to what they need, when they need it.

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70+ bulls available in sexed semen

The CRV Difference – with frozen sexed semen, target your best cows when they come on heat.

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Dairy beef


Choose from 20 dairy beef breeds to find the ideal option for tail-end mating and produce high-value calves for the beef industry.

  • Bulls are selected for calving ease and good growth rates.
  • Includes polled and short gestation options.
  • Option to use FertaBull which contains the semen of three elite sires in
    one dose, giving you more chance of getting a cow in calf.



FertaBull – dairy beef

CRV’s unique FertaBull will maximise fertility at the end of mating and get your tail-end cows back in calf.

A cost-effective way to tighten up calving patterns with the added income of quality dairy beef calves to sell or rear.