Brown Swiss
Retso in New York: Six Dairy Breeds Successful under One Roof
“We are celebrating a memorable year and are preparing for the next one.” This recent post on the Facebook page of Retso turns out to not be an overstatement at...
Lambrecht Dairy in Wisconsin: Top Quality Forages Lead to Exceptional Components
The 320-cow herd at Lambrecht Dairy is currently averaging 92lb/42kg at 4.8% fat and 3.4% protein on twice daily milking. Located at Kewaunee, about 2½ hours north-east of Madison, the...
Sunshine Genetics in Wisconsin: Exporting Embryos to the World
Sunshine Genetics has a long history as the leading embryo transfer facility in America’s dairy-land of Wisconsin. Established in the 1970s, Sunshine Genetics has made the exporting of embryos a...
Heritage-Pride, California: Impressive Dutch Belted Herd, Acquired Via Two-Pronged Approach
In the 1990s, the number of representatives of the Dutch Belted breed world-wide turned out to have dropped below 500. For Ronald (Ron) Pietersma – an American with Dutch roots...
Selection of Current, Elite Fleckvieh and Brown Swiss Sires
It continues to be important: the progeny proof. This was demonstrated again by the attractive German Fleckvieh bull Hochadel from BSG (Besamungsstation Greifenberg). ‘As a young bull with 136 gTMI,...
BSI Intriguing Sires DNA II - July 2024
Laugen-P is currently one of the most interesting polled sires in international Brown Swiss breeding. He presents himself as an all-rounder with a super balanced, no-holes proof: +820kg milk +.29%f...
BSI Intriguing Sires DNA III - July 2024
AG Valps is a Vance son who was bred on the farm of Martin Schlecker in Osterberg and comes from a family strong for production and components. His Alpsee dam...
The favourites of the AI studs
Among the sires of sons over the last 3 years, bulls from the Blooming line come out on top with the highest number of sons: every ninth AI bull in...
Brown Swiss in mixed herds: How to feed, how to breed
In many regions, Brown Swiss share the barn with other breeds, most often with Holsteins from a global viewpoint. What impact does this have for farmers? Are they fed, managed...
Gubelmann Brown Swiss in Canada: ‘I Don’t Care Where a Bull is From’
The Gubelmann family have bred one of the top genetic merit herds of Canada, and produced the highly proven bull Kingsley and the new release sires Kachow and Dionysis-P. On...
Doboy: Breakthrough as a proven sire & Optimal: no extremes
The daughter-proven Sinatra son Optimal is one of the most desirable Brown Swiss bulls bred in France. He breeds cows with many strengths and no extremes.
BSI Intriguing Sires DNA - July 2024
Snoopy ranks at Nr.1 ISU in France, and is also 209 gPPR in the US and 134 gGZW in Germany. He is a son of Jonmar, who is now proven...