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August 2024
Genes Diffusion: Long History of Selecting and Proving Bulls for Beef-On-Dairy

Genes Diffusion has nearly 50 years of tradition behind it’s beef-on-dairy program. Their product line for beef sires selected specifically for use over dairy cows is know as Safe. Bulls used in this program have to meet...

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August 2024
World Wide Sires: ProfitSource Branded Terminal Sires for the Beef-On-Dairy Market

Data, traceability, quality assurance and sustainability are all very important elements that have been built into every stage of the supply chain. ‘We now have over 35,000 carcass records from our beef-on-dairy program...

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August 2024
Synetics: Extra Focus on Sire Fertility and Calving Ease

For decades, Synetics and its partners have placed a lot of emphasis on the Beef-on-Dairy strategy. So that today no less than eight breeds – all tested based on field information – are available for Beef-on-Dairy; Yperi...

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August 2024
Metrabol: The natural reference for reproduction!

Natual, Techna’s natural health and nutrition offer, has been building and demonstrating the technical, economic and societal benefits of the METRABOL bolus for over 15 years. What are the keys to the success of this uni...

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August 2024
The Menna Family: Captain’s Dam is the Heart of a Proprietary Line at GenoSource

The Oman Mirror family has produced some of the true breed-changing sires of the past two decades – from Robust to Jedi, Duke, King Royal to Renegade and Captain. Here we look at the branch of the family that produced th...

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July 2024
Herds worldwide - July 2024

The Fazenda Analândia enterprise owned by the De Boer family – situated in the Dutch colony of Castrolanda (Castro Parana) in southern Brazil – has 500 Holstein cows and just as many young stock. The average daily produc...

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July 2024
Doorco Holsteins: ‘We Focus on Everything Necessary for a Long-Lasting, Profitable Cow.’

Seven times, Doorco Holsteins – located in northeastern Wisconsin – has been recognized as a “Herd of Excellence”. No less than 49x they received the “Progressive Breeders Registry”. In addition, no less than 19x the “Pr...

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July 2024
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 also home of Hallow Holsteins, a herd that has gaine...

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July 2024
BullTalk - July 2024

Seven years ago he was born with a decidedly remarkable pedigree: a son of Livington, who himself was a son of Stellando son Malcolm. Also not widely known was his maternal grandsire Delta Incentive, a son of Fender son...

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July 2024
Intriguing Sires DNA - July 2024

‘Oli, a Conway grandson via sire Letchworth, is the nr.2 gLPI bull. Both in Canada and the US (3159 gTPI) Oli dazzles via strong components, desirable fitness, and high conformation (+10 conformation/2.37gPTAT). See here...

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July 2024
Thanks to Renegade, the Man-O-Man Genes Are Entirely Current Once Again

With his nearly faultless transmitting profile, the American S-S-I PR Renegade is one of the most popular transmitters of the modern era. He is also a successful sire of sons, with a long list of popular sons (Trooper, P...

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July 2024
Peak AltaZazzle: Steadily growing influence!

With his genomic breeding values, Peak AltaZazzle was able to debut at Nr.1, which attracted a lot of attention. Today, Zazzle has found a spot among the row of superstars that breed wonderfully on both the male and fema...

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July 2024
Intriguing Sires DP - Juny 2024

‘Holocron was already popular as a young DNA bull and remains popular, also after his first daughter proof. Farmers are happy with the Holocron daughters.’ Speaking is Francesco Veronese from Intermizoo about the Italian...

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July 2024
KAX Gladius: People Know What They’re Getting

‘The popularity of Gladius is tremendous and still continues to increase. This trend has to do with his very good daughters. Many farmers want to milk more of his daughters and are using Gladius as a progeny proven sire...

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July 2024
Focus on... July 2024

Those who select for the combination milk, udder, and longevity, cannot bypass America’s nr.1 bull Darth Vader, given +2458 lb milk, 258 lb fat+protein, 1.70 udder and 6.2 longevity. The son of Thorson (Cowen-Charl) out...

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