2018 National Cow For All Seasons Winner

V B HP Advantage Sugar 'E93/E95ms'

Owned by Voegeli Farms Inc. & City Slickers LLC, Monticello, WI

VB HP Advantage Sugar EX93/EX95ms owned by Voegeli Farms Inc. and City Slickers LLC, Monticello, Wisconsin, is the 2018 Vernon C. Hull Total Performance and National Cow for All Seasons award winner. VB HP Advantage Sugar will receive both awards at the 2019 National Brown Swiss Convention to be held July 2-5, 2019, in Buffalo, New York.

The Vernon C. Hull Total Performance Award honors the cow with the highest point total of the National Show Total Performance Winners. The final point calculation is derived from the cow’s highest 305 day Energy Corrected Milk record, Total pounds of Energy Corrected Milk per day over 24 months of age, and placing score at a national show. The Cow for All Seasons Award recognizes the cow with the top 305-day ECM record from among National Show NASCO winners.

“Sugar” calls Voegeli Farms home, a basically all Brown Swiss dairy farm, milking 250 head, owned and operated by the Voegeli family. Sugar had a banner year in 2018, as she was the Total Performance and NASCO Type & Performance Winner at the International Brown Swiss Show, as well as placing fourth overall and first place Bred and Owned in the Component Merit Cow class. She was second-place Component Merit Cow and Overall Production Winner at both the Wisconsin State Show and Wisconsin State Fair. Sugar’s first calving was at 1-11 and she has freshened like clockwork since then, calving at 3-02, 4-01, 5-02, and she is currently working on her 6-02 record with 6-02 141D 2X 15,796M 4.1% 642F 3.3% 520P. Her top record is 5-02 325D 2X 41,620M 4.5% 1,893F 3.2% 1,350P with a high 305-day ECM of 45,072M and lifetime ECM of 156,000M.

2018 Cow For All Seasons Finalists

VB HP ADVANTAGE SUGAR
High 305 day ECM = 45,072
2018 International
Voegeli Farms Inc & Hillpoint Partners, WI

OLD MILL TRAY GILBERTA ET
High 305 day ECM = 36,774
2018 Northeast National
Ken Main & Peter Vail, NY

HILLS VALLEY DY NASY RAVEN
High 305 day ECM = 36,609
2018 Eastern National
Hills Valley Farm, LLC, NY

GROVES VIEW AGENDA TINA ET (M)
High 305 day ECM = 35,559
2018 Southwest National
Grant Groves & Sunshine Associates, MO

DOUBLE W IONA
High 305 day ECM = 33,663
2018 Southeast National
Karlie Telford & MacKenzie Rienhardt, NY

STILLY BEND FORMULA TOFFEE
High 305 day ECM 23,540
2018 Northwest National
Maryanne Wood, WA