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November 2024
Intriguing Sires - November 2024

‘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...

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November 2024
BullTalk - November 2024

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...

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November 2024
Exclusive in Holstein International: The Most Popular Conformation Bulls at AI Companies World-wide

We continue to hear it from dairy farmers the world over: conformation remains important. Not immediately to breed show cows, but especially to create problem-free cows, who can easily do their work each day. Without pro...

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November 2024
Intriguing Sires - November 2024

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...

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November 2024
Renegade is Royalty

S-S-I PR Renegade is a former winner of the Outcross Sire of the Year title, being sired by the French bull Jaltaoak and out of a Millington daughter. Further back the pedigree traces through Davinci-Snowman-Shottle to O...

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November 2024
Focus on... November 2024

At CRV the very popular Delta Launch-PP-Red has recently been joined by the newly proven Delta Everton in being marketed as high-conception rate sires. Everton is sired by De Leenhorst E-Profit (<Delta Magister) while hi...

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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
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
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
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
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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September 2024
Likely the World’s Most Popular Sire of All Time: “Black Beauty” To-Mar Blackstar

Has a bull ever been more popular in global breeding than To-Mar Blackstar from Select Sires? Likely not. During his long life, the semen of the Chairman son from the American state of Iowa was nearly consistently “sold...

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September 2024
Exclusive in Holstein International: The Bestsellers of 50(!) AI Companies around the World

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)...

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