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TPI or Net Merit: Which Index is the Most Appropriate for Todays Breeding Industry?
With American genetics being a major driver of Holstein breed progress around the world, their main genetic indexes TPI and Net Merit are widely known and are used extensively in...
Intriguing Sires DP - February 2025
Medium sized, efficient, high-producing cows with good fertility: That’s what makes August an attractive option for the average dairy farm. Sired by Pine-Tree Acura (<Achiever), August is from the very...
Focus on... Calving-Ease
The ABS bull Leeds is a high production bull with good productive life… and is a calving-ease specialist too. Leeds now has a list of young sons entering service at...
BullTalk - January 2025
‘I have always admired OCD Planet Diamond EX-92, as she has developed such a tremendously positive influence at Claynook in Canada. In 2017, I was at Claynook and wanted to...
Intriguing Sires - The top sellers
Ambrose was one of the first Ranger-Red sons Semex released to the market in May of 2023. ‘Being a son of the awesome cow Mystique Lambda Anis, he was popular...
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...
Level-Plain Holsteins: Lots of AI Sires, All from One Homebred Cow Family
Breeders who want to breed animals with competing or even higher genomics than those from large nucleus programs, give themselves a huge task. Keith Nettekoven does not shy away from...
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...
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...
Unique: AIs Offer Their Own Recommendations: These Sires Should Be Used More Often (2)
In HI’s July issue, we published part one of a unique document, in which AI companies all over the world indicate which of their own bulls deserve to be used...
ABS Global: The NuEra Genetics Beef Product Line
Using beef genetics on lower genetic-quality dairy cows has been a common practice in many countries for years. Dairy farmers have recognised that producing a beef cross calf generates more...
BullTalk - March 2024
One of the brand new AI companies in North America is Showbox Sires. For distribution, they work with Select Sires and Semex, and the first four sires to be presented...