Herd reports
Hallow Holsteins: Home of Ireland’s Famous Twizzle Cow Family
The Irish County of Wexford is the ancestral home of former US President John Kennedy, and a park carrying his name has been developed as a memorial. County Wexford is...
Claynook Farms: Modern Holstein Enterprise with 35% of Income from Breeding
With Claynook Zeebah Letchworth in the Nr.1 position for young females and Ranger son Claynook Zard-RC in second place on the sire list, Claynook Farms in Ontario is drawing a...
Volkmann Holsteins Vogtland: Source of Five Iron Strong Generations and Vox Say-Red-PP
Beginning in August, the first daughters of Vox Say-Red-PP, the second most sold Red Holstein bull in Germany, will be coming into production. Say, launched by Masterrind/Synetics, comes from a...
France’s Famous Conformation Herd La Coumière Continues to Harvest Success
One of the well-known prefixes in the national French show world is Coum: the prefix of the La Coumière dairy enterprise owned by the Varnier family in the northeastern part...
Conant-Acres: Consistently Among the Top Type Herds of the US
Each year the Holstein Association publishes a list of the top BAA herds in the US, the herds with the highest average age-adjusted type classification score. Conant-Acres has consistently ranked...
Zial Holsteins: ‘Beautiful Cows Need to be Able to Perform Well for a Long Time.’
The farm owned by the Zilocchi family (father Corrado, besides being a cattle breeder, is also the head classifier at ANAFIBJ) in Pegognaga, not far from the powerful Po River...
Stanton Farms: ‘We Want to Offer Genetic Solutions to our Customers.’
It is less than three years ago (HI 8/2021) that we provided extensive coverage of the unprecedented breeding achievements of Stanton Farms in the Canadian Ilderton. Or actually we should...
Fankhauser: “Powerful Monia Ensured Family that Continually Provides Outstanding Cows”
‘Til we meet again in the Fankhauser herd!’ That is what we wrote in HI 07/2022, when a photo of the splendid black & white Redstream daughter Olivia-RC was published....
Vestermarken: High Performance Herd from the North of Denmark
The Jørgensen family’s Vestermarken Jersey herd from North Jutland has been among the countries leading production herds for some years. A major focus is to produce top quality forages so...
Hinnemann Holstein in Germany:In the top-5 for Production Thanks to Elite Management and Focused Breeding
‘We try to make the production circumstances for our cows as optimal as possible.’ On the farm of Philipp Hinnemann in Germany, nothing is left to chance: Not in terms...
Trent-Way Genetics: Smart RC Strategy Leads to Rapid and Powerful Results
In a nicely hidden valley, about 60 km southwest of Madison in the American state of Wisconsin, we find the relatively new breeding enterprise Trent-Way, owned by Trent and Kelsey...
Logic-PP & Leyhigh-PP: Representatives of Thriving Drewholme L Family
With the purchase of a Gibson daughter out of Idee Lustre, Andrew Martin, who was young at the time, laid the foundation for all the exceptional breeding success that is...