The work with cattle started much before the First Expointer, when Pedro Bertagnolli still fought with wheat crops. In l950, the first female Jersey, named Doll, came to the farm with the aim of providing with mild the wheat workers.
From the 60's onward, Butia started to import Jerseys from different places in the world, from Jersey Island, England, Canada and New Zealand. This investment would help the herd qualification.
As a result of the importations, and the work that has been developed with the Jersey Cattle, Butia won 21 times the Great Female Champion of Expointer, 24 times the Best Breeder and several times the Year Prize as the "Cabanha do Ano" and still broke the record of milk production during the Esteio Fair, Rio Grande do Sul, many times.
Sementes e Cabanha Butia has today, l00 milking cows with the average of l5 kg/day being fed in the fields - with oat and ryegrass in winter and sorghum and native field in the summer - supplementation of 4 kg of balanced ration/day. Sementes e Cabanha Butia has a rigorous sanitary control, in which the animals are regularly vaccinated against reproductive diseases like leptospirosis, IBR and BVD and still against mastitis.
The artificial insemination is performed with the best selected breeders from the United States of America and Canada that undergo a discerning evaluation of pedigree and morphological characteristics for crossing with Butia females. It is still developed a technique of embryo transference, when the best selected matrix of the farm are chosen.
All the prizes won in these 55 years reinforce and strengthen the genetic work that has been developed by Sementes e Cabanha Butia.
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