Canada

November 2024

Herd reports

Herds Worldwide - November 2024

Farming in southern Wisconsin has its challenges – land prices are high and the weather is sometimes extreme, from -28°C in the winter to 43°C in the summer. ‘Sometimes the...

November 2024

Herd reports

Character Dairy Genetics in Canada: Homebase for Progenesis

Enthusiasts throughout the Holstein world would be familiar with the name Progenesis, the prefix of the Semex internal bull development program. Character Holsteins at Mildmay, Ontario, is where it all...

October 2024

Misc Breeds

Unique Overview The Leading Jersey Herdbooks Worldwide

At a time when the number of dairy farms and the number of dairy cattle worldwide are dropping, the Jersey breed is defying this trend. To give perspective, this overview...

October 2024

Misc Breeds

Lone-Pine in Canada: Where Production and Type Combine

Intermediate and Reserve Grand Champion at the Canadian Royal in 2023 was Lone-Pine Jordan Booster, while Reserve Grand Champion at the All-American Show 2023 in Louisville was Lone-Pine Nighttrain Lula....

October 2024

Sires Report

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...

September 2024

Cow Families

Cow Country - September 2024

What is the synonym for “complete” in modern Holstein breeding? It may be Jacobs Goldwyn Brittany EX-96. She was successful in the showring, has a production high of 18,000kg/39,700lb and...

September 2024

Herd reports

Herds Worldwide - September 2024

Hillandia Farms, the farm of Jason & Rebecca Streutker, lies in the heart of Oxford County, in the southwestern part of the Canadian province of Ontario. Also for the Streutkers,...

August 2024

Cow Families

Cow Country - August 2024

KHE-Indiana VG-87 was up for sale as a heifer at the Thringia Auction Time in 2014. At the time, she was the highest Enforcer daughter with 166 RZG and was...

August 2024

Herd reports

Ferme Coti, Quebec: A Well-known Source Provided a Significant Contribution to Their Nice Master Breeder Title

Just a short distance west of the metropolis of Montreal in the Canadian province of Quebec we find the beautiful farm of the Cloutier family. In 2021, they made national...

July 2024

Misc Breeds

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...

June 2024

Cow Families

Cow Country - June 2024

Initially, at Fairvue Farms (1500 milking cows) in the American state of Connecticut, only unregistered Holsteins were being milked. ‘Seven years ago we started implanting embryos from elite breeding programs...

June 2024

Herd reports

Claynook Farms: Modern Holstein Enterprise with 35% of Income from Breeding

With Claynook Zeebah Letchworth in the Nr.1 position for young females and Ranger son Claynook Zard-RC in second place on the sire list, Claynook Farms in Ontario is drawing a...