8 April 2025

Tarine genotyping: an essential lever for optimizing your genetics

Today, genotyping is an indispensable tool for breeders wishing to improve their livestock and optimize the profitability of their operations. This technology makes it possible to evaluate the genetic potential of females and males at an early stage, thus facilitating strategic choices in terms of reproduction and selection.
1 April 2025

Juvenile over-mortality in the Abondance breed: genetics will help control the anomaly

The Abondance breed, renowned for its dairy qualities and hardiness, has for many years been faced with a hitherto unexplained juvenile mortality rate, impacting both farm profitability and animal welfare. New genome mapping approaches are now enabling us to implement solutions aimed at eliminating (or at least drastically reducing) these early losses. Zoom in on a useful and exciting project!
19 February 2025

Selection, performance and 100% AI: the DNA of GAEC SORHUETA

In the heart of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques region, in the commune of Irissarry, Bernadette and Beñat, mother and son, passionately run a mixed farm of Blonde d'Aquitaine and dairy ewes. They are the breeders of PATUA, a new QM 2024-2025 bull in the balanced range of the AURIVA catalog.
21 January 2025

Promoting a region through the “Tome des Bauges” PDO (protected designation of origin)

Already produced in the 17th century, Tome des Bauges cheese is the product of a long-standing tradition and know-how. Breeders from the Bauges massif set up a Société d'intérêt collectif agricole (agricultural collective interest society) and registered the "Tome des Bauges" trademark with INPI (the French national institute for industrial property) in 1972.
17 December 2024

Optimize to win!

Typical of the northern Hautes-Alpes region, Bleu du Queyras is working towards its PDO status. With a blue-speckled paste, its softness, mellowness and creaminess are unlike any other, according to Alexandre Lagier, president of the Bleu du Queyras interprofessional association and breeder of 53 Tarine cows (GAEC de la petite Tarine - Saint André d'Embrun (05)).
3 December 2024

Blue as the Queyras sky

Typical of the northern Hautes-Alpes region, Bleu du Queyras is working towards its PDO status. With a blue-speckled paste, its softness, mellowness and creaminess are unlike any other, according to Alexandre Lagier, president of the Bleu du Queyras interprofessional association and breeder of 53 Tarine cows (GAEC de la petite Tarine - Saint André d'Embrun (05)).
21 November 2024

Born under a new star

Genetic variability, original lines... the diversity and renewal of our sire offer is at the heart of the work carried out within the Blonde d'Aquitaine scheme. Take a look at the examples of PONT AVEN and ROD to discover how exceptional new lines are born.
6 November 2024

Organization and efficiency

The GAEC LA FERME DES BARTHES is located in the commune of Labastide-Clairence in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department. Today, with 2.5 UTH, the GAEC produces 680,000 liters of milk, of which 300,000 liters are delivered to the local Bastidarra dairy and 380,000 liters to the Savencia dairy in Jurançon. The 62 Prim Holstein dairy cows are milked by robot, with an average production of 10,771 kg of milk at 39.7 TB and 33.8 TP. The cows are kept in stalls with cubicles. The UAA covers 80 hectares. For the future, the partners are planning to build a cheese dairy to produce soft cheeses.