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Holsteins have become the universal dairy cow and dominate in most major dairy countries. However, it may not be a “one size fits all” situation. The interaction of genetics with environment has long been observed. Certa...

Beef-on-dairy is absolutely not a new phenomenon at the British AI company Cogent. ‘We launched our beef-on-dairy program in 2009 in order to ensure that we could make the right selections for our dairy farmers. Beef-on-...

At the Dutch AI company KI Samen, they are clear about the future prospects for beef-on-dairy: ‘The average age of milking cows needs to increase, and therefore herd turnover rates will drop resulting in more and more ro...

HI has already reported various times about the Belgian Blue Group (BBG) and that is not surprising: the organization has a large offering of >200 sires and is active in >55 countries. Simon Noppen from BBG talks about t...

Well known: Angus and Belgian-Blue are among the big names in the beef-on-dairy business. But those looking for an interesting and proven alternative will find a good candidate in the Italian Piedmontese breed. It IS Not...

Ireland has an index (DBI) that is especially developed for beef-on-dairy. ‘It’s a truly valuable instrument for both distributors and farmers to distinguish the best sires for beef-on-dairy,’ explains Stephen Dowling, t...

With over eight million doses of semen sold, of which three million went to the international market, the German-French breeding program of Synetics counts as one of the biggest players worldwide. The company, which was...

Talk about an experienced giant in the beef-on-dairy market: in 2022, WWS (the international arm of Select Sires and Accelerated Genetics) sold more than 3.8 million doses of beef semen: two-thirds for beef-on-dairy. ‘Du...

BVN, Germany’s largest Fleckvieh breeding program will host an open house on May 1. At the new sire facility in Neustadt a.d.Aisch, thousands of visitors will be presented with about 80 impressive sires. ‘BVN is celebrat...

The French breeding organization Gènes Diffusion, working with the breed Charolais among others, has several decades of experience with beef-on-dairy. ‘As soon as farmers in our region switched to Holsteins, they were lo...

Very recently (HI 03/2023), an HI article appeared about the beef-on-dairy program at Semex. At the same time, on the cover of this Beef-on-Dairy International section you see a popular pupil from Semex: the Angus bull G...

‘Switzerland has a strong demand for quality. As such, there is also demand for higher meat quality, and a lot of beef production takes place on dairy farms. Eventually the demand came from Swiss agriculture itself: they...

A conformation average of 88 points on more than 300 classified cows, a total of 400 homebred EX cows,  eight national Grand Champion titles during the past twenty years, and an average annual production of  15,000 kg/33...

‘What makes Cirrus-P so popular? He is super balanced and does not have any knock-out faults. And he descends from a very attractive cow family.’ Speaking is Jordan Siemers about the Parfect son Winstar Cirrus-P, who via...

The name says it all: ST stands for Sexing Technologies. This organization is one of the important pioneers in the area of sexing semen. Thanks to this technology, dairy farmers can breed replacement animals from their b...