Viborg 11-14.9 2011

Finland – World’s northernmost agricultural country

• Geographical location the greatest handicap

• Growing season (in the picture)180 - 120 days

• Temperature sum 1 300 - 400 degree days - Germany 2 000 - 1 600 degree days - Spain 2 800 - 2 400 degree days

• Natural conditions reflected especially in yield levels→ only about half of those in Central Europe

Dairy cows and milk production

Structural change in agriculture in 1995-2008

Size class distribution of farms

1995 2008

Arable area ha Number % Number %

<10 22 850 24 13 120 20

10-20 30 698 32 14 262 22

20-30 19 669 21 10 539 16

30-50 15 414 16 12 762 20

50-100 5 706 6 10 923 17

>100 784 1 3 304 5

• Total number of farms fell by 32% ( 95 121 → 64 910)

• Average size of farms grew by 50% (22.8 ha → 34.2 ha)

• Number of farms with over 50 ha doubled (6 490 → 14 227)

Yhteensä siemennykset Nautatl Huuhtelusiem. H

2009 2010 muutos %

2009 2010 2009 2010 muutos% 2009 2010 muutos siem. % 2009 2010 2009 2010 muutos % 2009 2010 2009 2010

Kk 1&E&H 1&E&H 1&E&H Yht. Yht Semin. Semin. Semin. Nautatl Nautatl Nautatl

kaikista Yht. Yht. Semin. Semin. Semin. Nautatl Yht. Yht Sem Sem

1 59744 56926 -4,95 59638 56792 55993 52285 -7,09 3647 4507 19,1 7,94 28352 27447 26502 25221 -5,08 2226 106 134 56 113

2 55728 53919 -3,36 55666 53794 52253 49678 -5,18 3417 4116 17,0 7,65 26344 26173 24698 24046 -2,71 2127 62 125 49 101

3 63757 62697 -1,69 63632 62534 59724 57724 -3,46 3913 4810 18,6 7,69 30758 30496 28765 28059 -2,52 2437 125 163 85 111

4 60918 59742 -1,97 60844 59606 56954 54532 -4,44 3897 5074 23,2 8,51 28769 28338 26814 25910 -3,49 2428 74 136 67 112

5 56161 55622 -0,97 56013 55441 51891 50100 -3,57 4136 5341 22,6 9,63 26383 26231 24346 23640 -2,99 2591 148 181 110 146

6 51605 52872 2,40 51484 52798 47825 47781 -0,09 3680 5016 26,6 9,50 25154 25211 23310 22800 -2,24 2411 121 74 87 68

7 55746 49779 -11,99 55682 49736 51996 45715 -13,74 3715 4021 7,6 8,08 27539 23996 25689 22088 -16,30 1908 64 43 50 26

8 52520 54775 4,12 52472 54738 48750 49443 1,40 3766 5295 28,9 9,67 25363 25729 23481 23176 -1,32 2553 48 37 33 25

9 50841 59010 13,84 50751 58934 47103 53184 11,43 3648 5750 36,6 9,76 24797 27154 23022 24494 6,01 2660 90 76 69 49

10 56995 62222 8,40 56884 62148 52893 56561 6,49 3991 5587 28,6 8,99 29671 30521 27681 27805 0,45 2716 111 74 93 57

11 58449 61039 4,24 58351 60918 54315 55461 2,07 4036 5457 26,0 8,96 29931 29533 27858 26853 -3,74 2680 98 121 80 89

12 54406 56877 4,34 54299 56598 50307 51394 2,12 3992 5204 23,3 9,19 26209 26027 24217 23525 -2,94 2502 107 58 76 38

12 kk

676 870 685 480 1,26 675716 684037 630004 623858 -0,99 45838 60178 23,829 8,80 329270 326856 306383 297617 -2,95 29239 1154 1222 855 935

Siemennykset 1&E Aloitukset 1&E

Percentage of different dairy breeds in Finland between 1930 - 2005

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1995 2000 2005 2010

lypsykarjat (-6,5 %)

nautatilat (-7,2 %)

sikatilat (-6,2 %)

siipikarjatilat (-9,5 %)

Development of farm numbers and outlook for 2010

Dairy (-6.5%)

Beef (-7.2%)

Pig (-6.2)

Chicken -9.5%

Number of farms

YearSource: MTT

What is Faba?

• Faba is the trademark for animal breeding and artificial insemination in Finland.

• Faba is the official breeding organization of cattle breeds in Finland with a license to keep herdbooks for 16 cattle breeds:– Ayrshire, Holstein, Finncattle, Jersey, Brown Swiss – Hereford, Limousin, Aberdeen Angus, Charolais, Simmental,

Piemontese, Highland Cattle, Blonde d’Aquitaine, Dexter, Galloway, Texas Longhorn

• Faba is responsible for the gene resources of Ayrshire and Finncattle. .

Mission

• Faba’s mission is to serve farmers by providing and developing ethically sound, competitive breeding services of high quality that enhance the profitability of production. For its owners Faba brings added value by efficient operation and ongoing development of services and products.

• Goals:– Excellent insemination and breeding services– Better serving the customers– Nordic co-operation – Research and development

Services by AI technicians

• Artificial insemination• Pregnancy control• Embryo transfer• Fertility services

– Monitoring fertility at herd level– Finding problem cows– Monitoring fertility treatments– Instructions for heat control– Evaluation of heifers before first insemination

Optimization

• 2000 orders (1300-3000)

• 1350 farmers (850-2000)

• 28 a.i.techs receiving the orders (23-34)

• 158 a.i.techs on work (121-198)

• 200 km (65-450)

• 1150 text-messages to farmes

– About the time, when a.i tech is coming

Faba Co-op

•Herdbook (cattle, swine)•Indeces•Advising•Breeding plans•Beef recording•Bulldams – mating plans •Conformation scoring•Trade of animals and embryos•Export of animals•Export and import embryos•Magazine for cattle breeders

•AI•Pregnancy tests•Embryo transfers•Fertility advising

AI-services

• more than 96 % of all cows and heifers are inseminated

• most of inseminations are done by AI-technicians• 80 Ayrshire- and 15 Holstein-bulls are tested

every year (earlier 130 Ay and 50 Ho)• 36 % of inseminations are done with test bull

semen (Genvikplus 10 % and Young bulls 26 %)• large daughter groups, 150 – 250 daughters/bull

286 AI-technicians includes

60 fertility advicors50 embryo-technicians

Daily work (average)10 herds14 insemination 5 pregnancy tests200 kilometers

Routes calculated byData Processing Center Ltd

FIELD AI WORK

A.I.Techs routes 2.2.2010

178 A.I TECHS1955 ORDERS

Working hours 8.21

178 A.I TECHS1955 ORDERS

Working hours 8.21

Challanges for the next years

• EU quata system will end 2015• Amount of customer will decrease• Bigger farms, new services are

needed• Distances will incerase• Areal centralization• Increasing competition• Lack of employee

Strategy 2014• Production and breedingprogram together with

VikingGenetics• NAV and genomic selection development• Increasing focus on Marketing and Sales• Development of new services for bigger farms• Segmentation of customers• Service agreements with farmers• Training of employees (professional and sales)• High investments to IT program (services)

25% 50% 25%

Finland - Sweden - Denmark

VikingGenetics INTERNATIONAL

1 mill. Reg.Dairy Cows ½ mill. Beef Suckler Cows

Convetionel Semen products: 6 million doses pr. yearSexed semen products: 200.000 doses pr. year

2.000 AI Bulls

2 million inseminations pr. year

Export more than 1 million doses pr year

World Wide Export

Viking Points“

The Profitable Choice•Viking Bulls breeds long lasting cows with superior high production•Viking Bulls create healthy and profitable cows•Viking Bulls create efficient cows in converting feeding components into milk production

  A Long lasting cow means

•She is easy to get pregnant •She calves easily •She has strong resistance against mastitis and digestion diseases •She has strong feet and legs with healthy hoofs •She is a medium sized cow in matching modern milking systems  

Association of Salaried Agricultural Employees Organisations MTJL

MTJL represents officials who act in the field of A.I. Members are e.g. inseminators, also ones specialised in embryo transfers and fertility advising, animal tenders, laboratory workers, farm workers, office workers and drivers of cooperatives liquid nitrogen and animal trucks.

As employers act cooperatives and limited companies, owned by cattle owners, and also different companies acting on the line.

Collective agreement in A.I field is generally binding and negotiated by MTJL.

In MTJL there are about 380 members.

The Federation of Salaried Employees Pardia

Members of Pardia are a substantial group of both state and private sector employees. There are 60 000 members in our organization. The majority of them work in governmental offices and institutions, and some of them work in public utility companies and enterprises, universities and the Social Insurance Institution of Finland. Federation of Salaried Employees Pardia is a trade union with 24 member unions. Pardia is a member organisation of the The Finnish Confederation of Professionals STTK , an umbrella organization in which there are 21 other trade organisations.  

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