September 2024

‘It is interesting to see how a relatively small investment can eventually lead to so much influence… like a small stone that you throw in the water, with the rings continually becoming larger.’ With these notable words,...

“Family Matters”: the slogan on the farm sign beside the driveway of Calori-D Holsteins in Denair is absolutely fitting for the 2150-head dairy enterprise owned by the Mast family. In two respects. Because in addition to...

Hillandia Farms, the farm of Jason & Rebecca Streutker, lies in the heart of Oxford County, in the southwestern part of the Canadian province of Ontario. Also for the Streutkers, summer weather sometimes presents a signi...

Breeder reports are an absolute favourite for HI readers. This is evident from every previous reader survey, and is underscored multiple times by personal conversations with farmers. Breeders really enjoy looking (via HI...

This photo was taken on order of the German AI stud Rinder-Union West though the unique backdrop may only be seen at second glance. There are no less than 10 cows posed, some with lifetime production of well over 100,000...

The Holstein breeding operation of the Wyss family in the Bern canton of Switzerland looks back over a 120-year family story. It is shaped by hard work, passion for cattle breeding, impressive successes in dairy farming...

Early this year (HI 01/24) HI published a feature article about Poland, one of the larger milk producing countries in Europe. The opening picture offered a beautiful view of the modern dairy farm of Tomasz Kocięba. Chasi...

Has a bull ever been more popular in global breeding than To-Mar Blackstar from Select Sires? Likely not. During his long life, the semen of the Chairman son from the American state of Iowa was nearly consistently “sold...

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 is a bull dam. Furthermore, her...

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 just elite type, and she now impacts the breed i...

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 bull from owner Select Sires has been...

This is the 20th edition of the Global Cow Competition. Giving recognition to the most influential brood cows of the breed; that is why this competition was started. And that is what this competition has indeed done nine...

BoviSync improves herd management through better software. Dairies of all sizes have benefit from managing their herd with BoviSync. BoviSync is cloud native with browser, android, and desktop applications.

Over the past 15 years the world of dairy cattle breeding has moved to a whole new level of sophistication, capitalizing on the ability to look directly at the genes that make up an animal. American company Zoetis brings...

Here they are: the bulls that in recent times have been used the most at AI companies all over the globe. No less than 50 in all, from AI companies in fourteen countries. The size of these AI companies varies (of course)...

The 79th edition of this historic show is scheduled to take place at CremonaFiere, Nov. 28 – 30, 2024.