Genes Diffusion

May 2023

Sires Report

Bull Talk - May 2023

In April 2022, his first progeny proven index appeared. But now, in April 2023, he breaks through to America’s TPI top-10 thanks to a significant jump of 149 points: Silverridge-V...

April 2023

Genes Diffusion

Gènes Diffusion: The Best Beef-on-Dairy Guarantees

The French breeding organization Gènes Diffusion, working with the breed Charolais among others, has several decades of experience with beef-on-dairy. ‘As soon as farmers in our region switched to Holsteins,...

March 2023

Sires Report

Intriguing Sires DP - March 2023

‘He is a progeny proven bull who is high in the ranking, with a very nice profile. Very generous milk production in combination with nice conformation and udders, healthy feet...

December 2022

Sires Report

Focus On... - December 2022

In the past, high milk sires always had the best chances to achieve high overall breeding values. However, the introduction of many further traits has given even average production sires...

October 2022

Sires Report

Intriguing Sires Polled - October 2022

With Lucius-P, there is a young polled sire in the starting blocks that is interesting for several reasons. We will start with the pedigree of this Bedrock son, who is...

July 2022

Sires Report

BullTalk - July 2022

Time for a remarkable sire. He is five years old and displays (progeny proven) his highest TPI index ever: 2887, based on 448 milking daughters. As such, he has jumped...

March 2022

Management

Unique HI Overview: These are the 92 Most Sold Holstein Sires at AI Companies Worldwide

Who were the most sold Holstein sires in 2021? The answer follows here, in a unique overview with 92 bestsellers from 38 breeding organizations in thirteen different countries. As well...

December 2021

Cow Families

Cow Country - December 2021

With Himeyers Brain, a brand new prefix appeared in the top of the Swiss sire line-up. The Letsgo son from Swissgenetics scores 1602 gIset, with high indexes for conformation and...

October 2021

Management

Beef-on-Dairy Programs: Genes Diffusion & Alta Genetics

The surge in use of beef bulls on lower genetic merit dairy cows continues to grow, and part of the evolution in this market is the use of male sexed...

October 2021

Sires Report

BullTalk - October 2021

Remarkable: the entire progeny-proven Italian top-3 consists of sons of Sandy-Valley Afterburner, namely Miura (his report elsewhere in this HI issue), Kubrick and Pepsol, while also the Italian Nr.8, Sprite,...

September 2021

Sires Report

Focus on... September 2021

In this edition of HI we have nine pages on which we present the most important news from the various segments of daughter proven and genomic sires as well as...

Juni 2021

Sires Report

BullTalk - June 2021

With 38 milking daughters (and 16 classified) he does not yet reach the official French top list, but with his 188 ISU and +3.1 type, he would clearly be the...