August 2023

From ABS Sassafras to Willsbro Nugget-RC. The sire harvest from the Glen Drummond Splendor family is tremendous and influential. To be sure! Splendor descendant Farnear Tango Sabre is the maternal grandsire of TPI sensat...

It is the terror of many dairy farmers: barn fire. The tremendous damage and the loss of valuable, appreciated animals makes it a true drama. In the Canadian province of Quebec, it happened to the Perreault family; not o...

‘Many people look at the linear profile of sires for individual traits, while it is actually about the balance between traits....’ Keith Gue enjoys talking openly about current breeding themes and about the breeding stra...

Swissgenetics is marketing a polled sire with unique qualities: Vogue Hero-P. ‘He is extremely popular in Switzerland, because he is very all-round,’ tells Marc-Henri Guillaume from Swissgenetics, who points to Hero’s Am...

With the increasing temperatures in almost all countries around the world, it is inevitable that man and animal must adapt to a permanently changing climate. And naturally, Holstein breeding is also reacting to this. We...

In December 2021, he dazzled as America’s new nr.1 TPI sire. In HI’s March 2023 edition, he was one of the most faultless Holstein transmitters available. His name: Pine-Tree-I Pursuit. For this reason, HI has featured m...

In June, Newhouse Sneeker 422 VG-87 (Stol Joc-O-Man) a second generation 100,000 kg/220,000 lb cow was discovered by HI’s Dutch language publication HIPlus as one of the most prominent sources behind the current Dutch si...

Ultra-short generation intervals make it challenging to identify recognizable family influences in the pedigrees of young sires. HI went actively looking. After the June publication with the most prominent family influen...

For a long time, the W family, which was developed in the herd of Martin and Heinrich Welsing near Bocholt in western Germany, was a hard working free-stall family dotted with several consistent and enduring cows. And it...

She has an absolutely stunning appearance: Priestland 6877 Master James Rose VG-88, one of the five classified daughters of Golden-Oaks Master at Priestland Holsteins in Northern Ireland. Just as her name already hints,...

Among the most northeastern departments of France is Moselle, which borders both Germany and Luxembourg. In this hilly region – close to the community of Filstroff – we find the dairy farm of Dominique Weber, which is of...

Udder diseases continue to be one of the primary culling reasons for dairy cattle. For several decades, udder health has been a main breeding priority and yet it remains a complex topic. Further to that, breeding is only...

Melanie Harmitt is the CEO of Holstein UK: Here she gives us some insights into the British dairy industry. Each year 3,000 British Holstein breeders register over 200,000 animals with Holstein UK.

You are likely familiar with the American show cow Colganados D Avianca-Red EX-96? The prefix stands for much more than just this beautiful Destry daughter. Colganados, or “Cows from Colombia”, is the name of Francisco R...

In the 1970s, Tom and Gin Kestell established the Ever-Green-View herd at Waldo in eastern Wisconsin, close to the shores of Lake Michigan. Today they manage the high performing 100-cow herd along with son Chris, his wif...

It’s an honor for us to announce the grand return of the famous Swiss Expo! Yes, in just over 4 months it will be that time again: the globe’s most popular dairy event will take place in the Expo Genève at Geneva, Switze...