October 2024

Breeders who want to breed animals with competing or even higher genomics than those from large nucleus programs, give themselves a huge task. Keith Nettekoven does not shy away from the challenge. Special: the owner of...

International sire of sons Drouner-K&L Augustus-P-Red and the elite Dutch bull Drouner Altitude-Red: Both are ambassadors of the already longer successful Drouner Aiko family. Drouner Holsteins, owned by the Dutch Albrin...

It is but a small hamlet, Burey-la-Côte in the French department of Meuse, with about 80 residents. However, it was still hard to find among the small streets – even the navigator had difficulty. An “old-fashioned” phone...

First this, for a moment: what a tremendous harvest has been provided by the now seven-year-old S-S-I Renegade! Trooper, Parfect, Rupert, Taos, Conway, Bigshot, Rozline… and of course their numerous sons. Yes, the contri...

With the helping of milking daughters, the outcross sire Suez took the Nr.1 spot on the German list with 147 RZG. The Subzero son from an Outlast dam and an Octoberfest granddam goes back to the well-known cow family of...

His debut in August 2015 was phenomenal. Both in the US and Canada, he immediately captured both the gTPI and gLPI lead. As such, S-S-I Montross Jedi clearly became the “talk of the town” in numerous countries and receiv...

Use a polled bull and half his calves will not require dehorning, but using PP bulls means you will never have to dehorn a calf again. Macaby-PP is one of the best in the PP category. His proof shows 3063 gTPI with 1085l...

Campbell is the Nr.4 gRZG bull in Germany, and is the Nr.1 son of Comeback, who combines somewhat different bloodlines (Commitment-Entity-Spectre) with strong health traits and pleasing type. Campbell is a bigtime produc...

With an gRZG of 158, Malaga-Red is the current Nr.1 red and white sire in Germany. Above all, it is his outstanding production traits that propel him to this position. Believe it or not, the young Mask son has 164kg fat...

Early last year, we talked in HI about a notable “Golden Cross”: that of Siemers Mogul Hanker (Global Cow winner 2020) with View-Home Monterey. At the time, the Siemers family saw Monterey as one of the most suitable can...

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 golden lining. Evening Sidekick Jennifer won the stronges...

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 Denmire Maries. This stalwart British bloodline continu...

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 us. We’ve never had one that transmits like this...

An indisputable fact: red factor bulls have played a decisive role in the evolution of Red Holsteins. The pedigree of an undeniably elite bull like Rubels-Red (the sire of, among others, Ranger-Red) consists in large mea...

The Verein Ostfriesischer Stammviehzüchter (VOSt) enjoyed an unprecedented, successful August release, with leading positions for Holstein and Red Holstein, both DNA and progeny proven. And that while the AI company in O...

One of the biggest challenges in dairy farming is to simultaneously improve production and fertility. In addition to the efforts of breeding organizations which focus on genetic reproductive traits, several companies off...

Hungary’s agriculture is shaped by the high number of agricultural operations, from small family farms to large, modern businesses. Cash cropping has traditionally played an important role, though animal breeding and dai...

For a couple of years, An American Dairyman is from time to time writing articles for Holstein International, looking at different topics in the breeding industry. This time our mystery author (with plenty of knowledge a...