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The Dutch HHH show offers lots of space to young breeders and progeny groups. Above all, it is a place for Dutch breeders to present their most beautiful Holsteins. The 2024 edition was a success in every respect and saw...

‘When we look back at all of her daughters, Bliss will be quite the brood cow around the world, not just in North America. Most of her daughters made with us are still young so we are just experiencing the early stages o...

Genetic gains during the genomic era have more than doubled from earlier times, and we now select for a much more complete array of traits including fertility, health and feed efficiency. However, accompanying these impr...

In the German language, the term “foundation” is used for feet and legs. With a house, the foundation gives the construction the required stability to last for a long time. The same is true for a cow, though with a decis...

Having grown in up near Lake Constance, Matthias Schelling (54) has always been a real cow enthusiast. While he is not from a farm himself, already as a youth he preferred spending his free time at the neighbour’s dairy...

For dairy and beef production in Europe, the primary question is no longer if and how enough milk and beef can be produced to feed the population, but rather how ecologically and economically it can be done.

Diese Kooperation ermöglicht es uns und dem BRS, Ihnen regelmäßig und zuverlässig die deutschlandweit relevantesten Zahlen und Fakten vorzustellen, wie etwa die Leistungsstatistiken der Betriebe, die besten Dauerleistung...

Enthusiasts throughout the Holstein world would be familiar with the name Progenesis, the prefix of the Semex internal bull development program. Character Holsteins at Mildmay, Ontario, is where it all began for Progenes...

Farming in southern Wisconsin has its challenges – land prices are high and the weather is sometimes extreme, from -28°C in the winter to 43°C in the summer. ‘Sometimes the weather here changes very quickly, and not alwa...

Managing a large dairy (30 employees) with leading results year in, year out, requires, knowledge, organizational skills, and craftsmanship. The owners of Milchhof Diera have been very successful in this area. During the...

In the 1990s, the number of representatives of the Dutch Belted breed world-wide turned out to have dropped below 500. For Ronald (Ron) Pietersma – an American with Dutch roots – this was the immediate reason to take act...

‘We are extremely enthusiastic about Claynook Zeus! His dam debuted as the #1 gLPI cow, his sire Gameday debuted as the #1 gLPI progeny proven bull, and Zeus himself debuted as the #2 for young gLPI sires! He truly combi...

Gigaball is the current Nr.1 daughter-proven sire in Spain with a gICO of 1268. His sire is the Gymnast son Gigabyte, and his dam is the Sonic daughter Ballerina, who goes back to Farnear-Tbr Bailey VG-87. The Shottle da...

In HI’s recent October edition, ­Monterey appeared in BullTalk. This led to a direct response from breeding employee Gary Gao in China. He messaged HI: ‘An AI technician called me six years ago. After he had used 600 Mon...

Mayflower, Midnight, King Royal, Trooper, Crusher, Hurley… and then we are only talking about the progeny proven sires from the Mira-Mariah family at Plain-Knoll. Besides them, there are numerous young DNA sires on the w...