Cow Families
Luck-E Advent Asia-RC: Two-time Readers’ Favourite Captures 14th Red Impact Title!
Last year, she was overwhelmingly the readers’ favourite and finished second. As such, from the outset, Luck-E Advent Asia-RC EX-94 was a big favourite for the Red Impact title 2020....
Updates from the Blondin Supra family: Leading Type Sires, Top Sellers and National Champions
Amazingly it has been over five years since HI has dedicated a cow family story to the Canadian Blondin Supra family. Starting at Blondin with the purchase of Diamond-Hill Warden...
Faith: The Matriarch of the Ralma Herd in Minnesota
The whole herd descends from just one cow, a cow born in 1996. This is the Schmitt family’s 100-cow Ralma herd at Rice, Minnesota. Indeed, for many of these cows...
Cow Country - June 2020
Around 60-70% of the 100-cow Marshland herd (Wisconsin, US) goes back to the 1960s cow, Marshland Reflection Beatrice EX-91. Understandably for a long-standing family there are many branches at Marshland,...
Two Italian Number Ones: Zani’s Pawnee Family Demands Attention Once Again
The recent Italian April release once again brought the Zani prefix into the forefront. The index list for cows is led by Zani Bandares Mony and Zani Sound System Nora....
The amazing career of BTS-Malaga
A son at N°3 in the French top list, and a former N°1 daughter that currently ranks fourth on the official French heifer top list! Here are the fantastic results...
Cow Country - May 2020
‘We actually use quite a few current sires.’ Not a particularly unique statement. But those who know the tradition of Lantland Farms in New York may be quite surprised by...
Miranda: Rising Star for Polled and Red
He has become a global superstar in the polled breeding sector, the Australian bull Coomboona Zipit Mirand-PP, perhaps the most outstanding type bull the polled sector has ever seen. He...
Cow Country - May 2020
As the 1750-cow Cirio herd in Italy is in the fluid milk market, it has always been looking for production. Five years ago it began putting more emphasis on health...
Frosty: The Expanding Empire of a Glamorous Show Queen
The silky, stylish lines of Harvue Roy Frosty EX-97 made her a crowd favorite during her stellar show career that included Intermediate and Reserve Grand Champion at the World Dairy...
Nearly 100 years of the Lohmöller family’s “L” bloodline!
Aikman-daughter Loh Lilliaik VG-88 is a potential homebred 7th generation EX. She has three 100,000kg (220,000lb) milk cows in her pedigree, and more: it is believed there are no other...
Cow Country - April 2020
As you will have read in HI’s recent herd report on AOT Genetics in January, Cookiecutter MOM Halo has had a huge impact on their breeding programme. For example, Halo’s...