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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)...

If you want to learn more about how a farm produced over twenty 100,000kg cows in 12 months, this article is for you. From securing a sustainable future to lowering carbon footprint – find it all here!

Just a short distance west of the metropolis of Montreal in the Canadian province of Quebec we find the beautiful farm of the Cloutier family. In 2021, they made national (and international) news thanks to a nice Master...

To HI’s question ‘Which of your own sires should be used more often”, HI received a tremendous response from AIs world-wide. Besides the answers that you can find in an article elsewhere in this HI issue, we also include...

With 2.5 udder health – this index is based on 2.3 somatic cell and 2.5 mastitis resistance – the French Gymnast son Omnast is a specialist in that category. Also for longevity (2.2) and fertility (1.7) he scores splendi...

Nowadays there are many great daughter-proven Renegade sons, though Leaninghouse Taos is likely the most complete overall. Taos was bred by Rock-Hill Dairy in New Mexico. ‘At that time, Select Sires had a close relations...

In our previous history story, we looked at the pedigree of the matchless transmitter S-S-I Renegade and ascertained that in his near generations, just two transmitters appear twice: Man-O-Man and Shottle. Last time, we...

The first episode about the enormous influence of the family of Golden-Oaks Mark Prudence EX-95 appeared in HI’s recent July issue. Now time for the impressive sequel, including the fantastic Red Range.

KHE-Indiana VG-87 was up for sale as a heifer at the Thringia Auction Time in 2014. At the time, she was the highest Enforcer daughter with 166 RZG and was sold to a breeding cooperative. She was out of a VG-88 Windbrook...

Although born shortly before the turn of the century, the current TPI score of 2014 displayed by Milkworth Manfred Yadda proves that she was entirely made for the 21st century. Today, we know her as an influential founda...

The Netherlands has a special place in global Holstein breeding, as the country is regarded as the cradle of the global Holstein breed. After all, the original black & white cow from the Netherlands were regarded in Nort...

The time around calving marks an important period in the life of a cow and remains a big challenge on dairy farms. The last 40 days before and the first 60 days after calving are a significant factor in determining both...

In HI’s July issue, we published part one of a unique document, in which AI companies all over the world indicate which of their own bulls deserve to be used more often. Since HI received a tremendous response – for whic...