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April 2025
Cow Country - April 2025

The Netherlands has two famous Pietje families. Descending from the Woudhoeve Pietjes is Poppe Snow-RC, the maternal great-grandsire of Gywer-RC. The Skalsumer Pietjes provided Skalsumer Sunny Boy, for years the bestsell...

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April 2025
Ladyrose Caught Your Eye: The Unix Daughter Who Can Do It All

From time to time a superstar arrives on the Holstein scene, a cow that can do it all; a top producer with the type to compete at the top level, a great brood cow with daughters to follow in her footsteps, and a prominen...

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April 2025
Aot Deluxe Hi-Lighted: The Newest Super Bull Dam from the Halo Family

Aot Deluxe Hi-Lighted appeared in the news one year ago, thanks to her Nr.1 gLPI son Beyond Hi-Power. The consistently high DNA indexes of all her descendants predicted more AI sires. Today Select Sires and Semex have a...

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March 2025
Lydia and her Daughter Lustre have Created one of the Great Type Families of the Breed

Lydia is the fountainhead behind a family that produced 3 Canadian Royal Grand Champions: This is clearly one of the most consistent type transmitting families of the breed. And now there is much more to report – and fro...

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March 2025
Sheepster’s Background: How the Glare Family Appears in the News Again Thirty Years Later - And Now Globally!

No, he is not yet progeny proven, the nearly four-year-old Trooper son OCD Sheepster. In August, his first progeny proven index is expected. However, the Select Sires graduate is already regarded as a superstar in many c...

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March 2025
Cow Country - March 2025

3176 TPI, position 92. This top-100 ranking of Hurtgenlea Parfect Myndi VG-86 on the American cow index list shows that the several generations of a homebred cow family owned by the Hurtgen family in Wisconsin are still...

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March 2025
Lilly-Red secures the crown as World Champion!

In the past year she was already named Reserve World Champion, but in 2024, Premium Apple Crisp Lilly-Red secured the sought-after title as Red Holstein World Champion. Twelve outstanding cows from around the world compe...

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February 2025
Did Mascot’s Retreat Indicate the Disappearance of Ned Boy Blood? No! Whittier-Farms Ned Boy Continues to be Influential in Current Breeding

Genosource Captain: the world’s most powerful TPI bull. In his pedigree, we find the name of Whittier-Farms Ned Boy at least four times. Mogul: millionaire and member of the top-5 most influential Holstein bulls ever. Hi...

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February 2025
Al-Lew Monterey Ashley: The Dam of Arrow and Splendidly Complete Daughters

As a young sire, Aristocrat grabbed the headlines selling for $640,000. Today his conformation-rich brother Arrow turns out to be more popular. The American brood cow Al-Lew Monterey Ashley EX-95, via her sons with high...

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February 2025
Castelverde Goldsun Laura A living legend at Castelverde in Italy!

Castelverde Goldsun Laura EX-96 is more than just a cow – she is a phenomenon. With her unique combination of conformation, production and breeding potential, she belongs among the outstanding Holstein cows of Europe. La...

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January 2025
Cow Country - January 2025

Normandy, in the central west of France, is home to Gaec de la Chapelle, where Piet and Christina Bakker milk a herd of 75 cows. That’s where we pictured one of the stars of the herd, the 12-year-old La Chapelle Hill Vit...

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December 2024
Siemers Lstr Hanan ­33317-P, “Global Cow 2024”: ‘She is a Vital Genetic Line for our Current and Future Goals.’

Siemers Holsteins in Newton (eastern Wisconsin) attained a unique achievement by winning HI’s Global Cow Competition twice in a row. After Siemers Lmda Paris 27856 in 2023, this year it was Siemers Lstr Hanan 33317-P, wh...

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December 2024
Miranda: Taking Polled Breeding to the Top of the Breed

The recent surge in elite polled genetics is pushing the Holstein breed ever closer to the tipping point where it could quickly become a polled breed. One of the driving forces in that polled revolution is the great broo...

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December 2024
Cow Country - December 2024

For twenty years, Dan Reuter has been breeding at Reuter Dairy (950 milking cows) in Iowa, with the offspring of Barbie sister Regancrest-RB Bunny EX-93. With as a notable result RJR Discjockey 7509 EX-92, the Intermedia...

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December 2024
Jeffrey-Way Twigs Completes the North American Double at the Canadian Royal

At Canada’s 102nd Royal Winter Fair, the awards for Grand Champion Holstein and Supreme Champion Dairy Cow of the show went to Jeffrey-Way Hard Rock Twigs. And in the Red & White Show, it was a double-double for Premium...

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