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October 2024
Plain-Knoll Trooper: The World’s Highest Renegade Son

First this, for a moment: what a tremendous harvest has been provided by the now seven-year-old S-S-I Renegade! Trooper, Parfect, Rupert, Taos, Conway, Bigshot, Rozline… and of course their numerous sons. Yes, the contri...

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October 2024
Intriguing Sires - October 2024

With the helping of milking daughters, the outcross sire Suez took the Nr.1 spot on the German list with 147 RZG. The Subzero son from an Outlast dam and an Octoberfest granddam goes back to the well-known cow family of...

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October 2024
S-S-I Montross Jedi Indeed, Very Straight Legs, But Still Very Influential in the Holstein Breed

His debut in August 2015 was phenomenal. Both in the US and Canada, he immediately captured both the gTPI and gLPI lead. As such, S-S-I Montross Jedi clearly became the “talk of the town” in numerous countries and receiv...

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October 2024
Focus on... October 2024

Use a polled bull and half his calves will not require dehorning, but using PP bulls means you will never have to dehorn a calf again. Macaby-PP is one of the best in the PP category. His proof shows 3063 gTPI with 1085l...

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October 2024
Intriguing Sires DNA - October 2024

Campbell is the Nr.4 gRZG bull in Germany, and is the Nr.1 son of Comeback, who combines somewhat different bloodlines (Commitment-Entity-Spectre) with strong health traits and pleasing type. Campbell is a bigtime produc...

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October 2024
Intriguing Sires RED - October 2024

With an gRZG of 158, Malaga-Red is the current Nr.1 red and white sire in Germany. Above all, it is his outstanding production traits that propel him to this position. Believe it or not, the young Mask son has 164kg fat...

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October 2024
BullTalk - October 2024

Early last year, we talked in HI about a notable “Golden Cross”: that of Siemers Mogul Hanker (Global Cow winner 2020) with View-Home Monterey. At the time, the Siemers family saw Monterey as one of the most suitable can...

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October 2024
UK Dairy Day 2024: Golden Title for Evening Sidekick Jennifer

Some champion titles carry extra weight. Purely due to the sublime quality of the competition. The Holstein title at the 10th UK Dairy Day is one of these, with a golden lining. Evening Sidekick Jennifer won the stronges...

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October 2024
Denmire Maries: 6 Generations of 100,000kg, 6 Generations of EX-94!

Roxy, Dellia, Laurie Sheik, Splendor: These time-tested families are household names. And if you are in the UK there would be another name to add to that list – the Denmire Maries. This stalwart British bloodline continu...

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October 2024
Cow Country - October 2024

How is this for a progeny list: 52 registered progeny with only one below 3000 gTPI! Kenyon-Hill Gameday Onia GP-83 just never misses. ‘This is a whole new experience for us. We’ve never had one that transmits like this...

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October 2024
Unique Overview The Leading Jersey Herdbooks Worldwide

At a time when the number of dairy farms and the number of dairy cattle worldwide are dropping, the Jersey breed is defying this trend. To give perspective, this overview of the world’s leading Jersey nations includes a...

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October 2024
Unique Overview: The Most Popular Red Factor Sires World-Wide

An indisputable fact: red factor bulls have played a decisive role in the evolution of Red Holsteins. The pedigree of an undeniably elite bull like Rubels-Red (the sire of, among others, Ranger-Red) consists in large mea...

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October 2024
Dr. Eiso Busemann (VOSt): ‘Do not Reduce Breeding to Figures on an Excel Sheet’

The Verein Ostfriesischer Stammviehzüchter (VOSt) enjoyed an unprecedented, successful August release, with leading positions for Holstein and Red Holstein, both DNA and progeny proven. And that while the AI company in O...

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October 2024
Heat detection: Previously visual, soon with artificial intelligence?

One of the biggest challenges in dairy farming is to simultaneously improve production and fertility. In addition to the efforts of breeding organizations which focus on genetic reproductive traits, several companies off...

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October 2024
Bailey is crowned the first Jersey World Champion!

Our first Jersey World Champion cow comes from Hilmar in California. Stoney Point Joel Bailey of Vierra Dairy secured the first title in our eagerly anticipated competition. Twelve very special cows from around the world...

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