Alta's History

• 1910 - Carnation Farms is formed

  
• 1940-1950 - Carnation Farms incorporates a breeding division to sell quality genetics.

  Their reach expands throughout the United States with the development of frozen semen.

  

• 1969 - Doug Blair founds Western Breeder Service in Canada to begin a beef AI program
• 1975 - Western Breeders begins marketing Holstein semen
• 1975 - Wijnand Pon begins marketing Canadian Holstein semen in the Netherlands
• 1985 - The breeding division of Carnation Farms separates from the Carnation Milk Company to form Landmark Genetics
• 1986 - Alta Genetics is formed, specializing in embryo transfer research
• 1988 - Western Breeders merges with Alta Genetics
• 1993 - Alta Genetics is publicly traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange
• 1995 - Alta Genetics purchases Landmark Genetics
• 1996 - Alta Genetics and Koepon Holding in the Netherlands begin a joint venture
• 2000 - Wijnand Pon purchases Alta Genetics as a subsidiary of Koepon Holding

  making Alta the world’s largest privately-owned AI company

  

• 2000-present - Alta expands its reach to 14 retail markets and more than 85 wholesale markets

  with AI production centers in six different countries.

  

• 2001 - The Alta Advantage program is formed

  revolutionizing how progeny testing is done

  

• 2009 - Wijnand Pon purchases VAS & SCCL as subsidiaries of Koepon Holding

  
• 2010 - With the advent of genomics, Alta Advantage evolves to a partnership program based on customized genetic plans