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The Never-Ending Quest for Outcross Genetics: How Important is it?
Genetic gains during the genomic era have more than doubled from earlier times, and we now select for a much more complete array of traits including fertility, health and feed...
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...
Jeffrey-Way Twigs Completes the North American Double at the Canadian Royal
At Canada’s 102nd Royal Winter Fair, the awards for Grand Champion Holstein and Supreme Champion Dairy Cow of the show went to Jeffrey-Way Hard Rock Twigs. And in the Red...
Focus on... Robot Ready
Optimum teat position, teat length and udder balance are features that make the Synetics bull Urzokari de la Vigne ideal for robot milking. Good udder texture and strong attachments should...
Miranda: Taking Polled Breeding to the Top of the Breed
The recent surge in elite polled genetics is pushing the Holstein breed ever closer to the tipping point where it could quickly become a polled breed. One of the driving...
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...
Focus on... November 2024
At CRV the very popular Delta Launch-PP-Red has recently been joined by the newly proven Delta Everton in being marketed as high-conception rate sires. Everton is sired by De Leenhorst...
Renegade is Royalty
S-S-I PR Renegade is a former winner of the Outcross Sire of the Year title, being sired by the French bull Jaltaoak and out of a Millington daughter. Further back...
Holstein Marketplace Sires: Providing an Option for Breeders to Control Their Own Destiny
The US Holstein Association established it’s Marketplace Sires program in January 2019. The program now offers an exciting range of breeder-owned sires, adding some intriguing options to the semen market.
Predicted Transmitting Ability versus Breeding Value
The field of dairy cattle genetics uses two “languages”, Predicted Transmitting Ability (PTA) and Breeding Value. Evaluations from the US are expressed in PTA’s while most other countries use Breeding...
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...
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...