2018 National Total Performance 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 National Total Performance Finalists

VB HP ADVANTAGE SUGAR
Placing 4th International . . . . . . . . 94 pts
Highest 305 day ECM 45,072 . . . . . 95 pts
Lifetime ECM 156,000 . . . . . . . . . . .102 pts
Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291 pts
Voegeli Farms Inc, & Hillpoint Partners, WI

HILLS VALLEY DY NASTY RAVEN
Placing 1st Eastern National . . . . . 100 pts
Highest 305 day ECM 36,609 . . . . . 78 pts
Lifetime ECM 210,213 . . . . . . . . . . . 76 pts
Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254 pts
Hills Valley Farm, LLC, NY

GROVES VIEW AGENDA TINA ET (M)
Placing 1st Southwest National . . . 100 pts
Highest 305 day ECM 35,559 . . . . . 76 pts
Lifetime ECM 169,309 . . . . . . . . . . 59 pts
Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235 pts
Grant Groves & Sunshine Associates, MO

OLD MILL TRAY GILBERTA ET
Placing 1st Northeast National . . . . 100 pts
Highest 305 day ECM 36,774 . . . . . 78 pts
Lifetime ECM 127,838 . . . . . . . . . . 52 pts
Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230 pts
Ken Mail & Peter Vail, NY

DOUBLE W IONA
Placing 1st Southeast National . . . . 100 pts
Highest 305 day ECM 33,663 . . . . . 72 pts
Lifetime ECM 134,822 . . . . . . . . . 56 pts
Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228 pts
Karlie Telford & MacKenzie Rienhardt. NY

STILLY BEND FORMULA TOFFEE
Placing 2nd Northwest National . . . 98 pts
Highest 305 day ECM 22,240 . . . . . 49 pts
Lifetime ECM 71,509 . . . . . . . . . . 49 pts
Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196 pts
Maryanne Wood, WA