April 2025

Last February in HI you found an extensive report about the Italian Holstein star Castelverde Goldsun Laura EX-96, and a month earlier a portrait of her splendid Irish half-sister Cormacoo Goldsun Fame EX-96. Now we trav...

While some farms around Oconto in Wisconsin currently milk thousands of cows, Dean and Wanda Good continue to manage 70 Holsteins along with the accompanying young stock. The highest profitability per cow is the economic...

Dominik Saetteli himself milks about 60-70 Holsteins. ‘That depends on the intensity of sales. Annually we sell more than 40 milking cows. If demand is high, then we ourselves drop down to about 60 milking cows,’ explain...

Delta High Tide-Red-PP from CRV is the Nr.1 available NVI red & white PP-bull in the Netherlands. High Tide is a very high production bull with 2230kg milk which is combined with good feed efficiency (109) and pleasing h...

‘I want good conformation cows that milk well with very good components. In addition, I like to see polled, red & white/red carrier, and A2A2. As much as possible in one package.’ These words by Casey Jones from Scenery-...

The Netherlands has two famous Pietje families. Descending from the Woudhoeve Pietjes is Poppe Snow-RC, the maternal great-grandsire of Gywer-RC. The Skalsumer Pietjes provided Skalsumer Sunny Boy, for years the bestsell...

From time to time a superstar arrives on the Holstein scene, a cow that can do it all; a top producer with the type to compete at the top level, a great brood cow with daughters to follow in her footsteps, and a prominen...

Aot Deluxe Hi-Lighted appeared in the news one year ago, thanks to her Nr.1 gLPI son Beyond Hi-Power. The consistently high DNA indexes of all her descendants predicted more AI sires. Today Select Sires and Semex have a...

From the 60s through to the early 2,000s, cow production increased enormously though the fertility of the Holstein cow declined alarmingly. 20 years ago, selection for fertility traits was established, and with the assis...

For many, the name “Elitest” will be relatively new, however this French AI company has already existed for fifteen years. In 2010 Elitest was formed via the fusion of the AI cooperatives Meuse, Moselle, Alsace, and Vosg...

This is the 27th edition of the World Champion competition! On the following pages you will find 18 of the most outstanding Holstein cows that have dazzled in show-rings around the world over the past 12 months. While yo...

High quality milk from healthy udders of high producing and long living cows is exactly what dairy farmers around the world are striving for. Udder health plays an important role in this, not only in terms of animal heal...

Immediately an intriguing question. How many bulls do you know that provided even more influential daughters than Startmore Rudolph? Just read along: Wesswood-H Rudy Missy. Windsor-Manor Rud Zip. Ladys-Manor Ruby Jen. Co...

Genomic selection has revolutionized the breeding of Fleckvieh bulls in Austria and Germany. With modern DNA analysis, farmers and breeders can evaluate the genetic quality of their young bulls early on, which makes bree...

“We are celebrating a memorable year and are preparing for the next one.” This recent post on the Facebook page of Retso turns out to not be an overstatement at all. The farm in Schodack Landing in the American state of...

The elite sale ‘Die Auction’ plus the breeder’s gala on the eve, three current daughter groups from the Synetics breeding program, a dazzling show with Wilcor O Katy as the winner: Schau der Besten, the annual show of Ge...