Brown Swiss
Andreas and Bettina Kocher, Switzerland: Investment in good genetics pays off
Andreas and Bettina Kocher have put together a strong Brown Swiss herd over the last 14 years. The pedigrees of their cows are dotted with illustrious names like Gordon Patty...
A French sire is the darling of AI studs The big analysis of breeding for AI
No sire has put more sons into AI service internationally in recent years than O’Malley: every twentieth AI sire from the birth year 2019 onwards, worldwide, is a son of...
Random-Luck Farm: A True Premier Breeder Herd
Breeding outstanding type animals that can consistently compete with the best in the show ring and bring home the Premier Breeder award takes a special talent. At Random-Luck Farm in...
Andreas Hörmann, breeder of Canyon & Volker: Brown Swiss power with 66,000kg/145,200lb production at culling
If there are two daughter-proven sires in service from a farm and the dams of each still look good, it is really something special. Andreas and Maria Hörmann bred Canyon...
Austrian Genostar Aims for an Economical and Modern Dairy Cow
With the merger of smaller organizations in Steiermark and Niederösterreich, Genostar was established in 2009, thus becoming the largest AI company in Austria. The most prominent breeds in Genostar’s working...
New Generation Genetics: Passionate Stewards of the Brown Swiss Breed
It was the year that Holstein International started, 1994, the same year that a new name in the Brown Swiss world appeared on the scene: New Generation Genetics. That was...
Bosgoed in the Netherlands: Three Decades of Consistent Crossbreeding with Holstein-Jersey-Brown Swiss
Brown Swiss, Jersey, Fleckvieh, Montbéliarde; the use of “Dairy Breeds” on Holsteins is taking place in a variety of forms in the Netherlands. The Bosgoed family in Denekamp, close to...
Brown Swiss Level in France Displays Significant Increase!
Of course, France is known for breeds like Holstein and Normande. And, of course, the numerous beef breeds. But did you know that France is also becoming an increasingly bigger...
GGI-Spermex & Genetics Australia
‘GGI-Spermex is the leading export organization for Fleckvieh and Brown Swiss world-wide,’ says Martin Wimmer from GGI-Spermex. ‘The fact that Germany has the largest Fleckvieh and Brown Swiss populations, and...
Bosgoed: Holstein, Jersey & Brown Swiss
This splendid, colourful photograph in the eastern Netherlands was taken by Han Hopman of dam Bosgoed Gre 241 and her son Bosgoed Black Pete (<Aurora Jeroen; Holstein). So far, the...
Journey through the breeding world
Where is the trend heading the Brown Swiss AI studs? The following article will detail the answer, which shows that the differences in the bloodlines of the sires of sons...
Volker: From a strong branch
Volker, from the cattle union Baden-Württemberg (RBW), delivers on his genomic breeding values and impresses as a strong production, daughter-proven sire. At the same time, he is the best udder...