Cow Families
The Surprise of Madison: Twigs Beats Footloose and Shakira at World Dairy Expo
Jeffrey-Way Twigs is the name! The Hardrock daughter from the renowned T family at Jeffrey-Way Holsteins in Wisconsin provided a fantastic surprise at the World Dairy Expo, as she beat...
Cow Country - October 2024
How is this for a progeny list: 52 registered progeny with only one below 3000 gTPI! Kenyon-Hill Gameday Onia GP-83 just never misses. ‘This is a whole new experience for...
UK Dairy Day 2024: Golden Title for Evening Sidekick Jennifer
Some champion titles carry extra weight. Purely due to the sublime quality of the competition. The Holstein title at the 10th UK Dairy Day is one of these, with a...
Denmire Maries: 6 Generations of 100,000kg, 6 Generations of EX-94!
Roxy, Dellia, Laurie Sheik, Splendor: These time-tested families are household names. And if you are in the UK there would be another name to add to that list – the...
It’s a Barbie World: Barbie Goes Global
It was just 20 years ago that Regancrest-PR Barbie, bred at Regancrest Farms in Iowa, emerged as the Nr.1 PTAT cow of the breed. However, Barbie transmitted much more than...
Cow Country - September 2024
What is the synonym for “complete” in modern Holstein breeding? It may be Jacobs Goldwyn Brittany EX-96. She was successful in the showring, has a production high of 18,000kg/39,700lb and...
The Powerful “New Yorker” Maternal Line of Bestseller Cherry-Lily Luster-P
Elsewhere in this HI issue you read about the bestselling sires at 50 AI companies world-wide. Of these bestsellers, Cherry-Lily Luster-P is one of the big names, as this attractive...
Milkworth Manfred Yadda: Source of Productive Holsteins That Perform Easily in Commercial Environments
Although born shortly before the turn of the century, the current TPI score of 2014 displayed by Milkworth Manfred Yadda proves that she was entirely made for the 21st century....
Part 2 about the Prudence family
The first episode about the enormous influence of the family of Golden-Oaks Mark Prudence EX-95 appeared in HI’s recent July issue. Now time for the impressive sequel, including the fantastic...
The Menna Family: Captain’s Dam is the Heart of a Proprietary Line at GenoSource
The Oman Mirror family has produced some of the true breed-changing sires of the past two decades – from Robust to Jedi, Duke, King Royal to Renegade and Captain. Here...
Cow Country - August 2024
KHE-Indiana VG-87 was up for sale as a heifer at the Thringia Auction Time in 2014. At the time, she was the highest Enforcer daughter with 166 RZG and was...
Cow Country I - July 2024
‘They are all problem-free free-stall cows that show very good legs. Particularly the very good feet with depth of heel that guarantees they wouldn’t get Mortellaro,’ says Martin Biederbick. He...