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‘In our breeding goal we have always focused on conformation, production, and fitness.’ Lachlan Fry, the breeder at Katandra-Park Holsteins & Jerseys (140 milking cows) in Western Australia, has a strong preference for c...

Can you remember the first pedigree cow purchased for your herd? The Carlson family definitely do… Why? Because Brad Carlson’s great-grandfather purchased the founding purebred cow behind the Sunnyhome herd – from which...

The family of Clear-Echo Ramo 1200 has produced another high-flying bull, Hercules, currently ranked at Nr.2 on the US genomic list. His sire is the very successful sire of sons, Heroic (Achiever-Modesty), who transmits...

With +19 overall conformation based on 72 classified daughters, Sidekick is the highest progeny proven conformation sire available in Canada, while the three leading positions on the conformation list of DNA sires are he...

There are many traits that international Holstein breeding is working to develop at the moment. However, none of them have generated attention in the same way that feed efficiency has. And for good reason: feed is by far...

‘Multimate can attribute his popularity to the fact that he transmits cows that are robust and produce a lot of milk from well-attached, shallow udders,’ says Jaap Brinkman from CRV. Multimate is a son of Texel Beauty De...

This coming summer, it will be five years ago that DNA sire Melarry Frazzled made his debut: in 13th place with 2751 gTPI. Today, the Josuper son scores 2705 TPI, based on 8,594 milking daughters in five countries (with...

Before we begin the portrait of Leif, the remarkable maternal grandsire of AltaOak, we will take a short look at Oak’s career. How did Oak end up as a young sire at Alta? ‘AltaOak was created through contracting a group...

Indeed! The starting shot of HI’s unique tournament of the world’s most influential cow families has been given. Here is the first preliminary round; on the next six pages, you will find portraits of 50 families from var...

Velthuis is one of just 5-6 breeder herds across Canada that continues to play a significant role in the breeding of young sires for AI. Atwood, Einstein, Imax and Gymnast are among the many successful AI bulls that were...

In 2018, Darita Holsteins was one of 16 herds across the US to win the coveted Herd of Excellence award. With a modern farmstead and solid breeding program, the well managed operation achieves a 32,000lb./14,500kg herd a...

One of Italy’s highest type bulls is Al.Ce Sneaker, with +2.52 for tipo: And no less than +3.92 for udders – one of the highest scores ever in Italy. The dam of this Meridian son is Al.Ce Atwood Samuela EX-93, who will t...

In North America the heifer programs established by the major bull studs are a core part of the bull breeding industry. Most bull studs now source more than 50% of their young sires from these heifer programs, where the...

Each proof run HI explores the highest index sires worldwide, but unfortunately we do not always have space and time to investigate who leads for type. Here we embark on a much-awaited mission – to provide a selection of...

Raising calves is an indispensable part of dairy farming. HI spoke to four international players with tremendous expertise in this area. They passionately share about how the first days, weeks, and months of a calf’s lif...