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,...
HI on a Reporting Trip: California Tour 2024
Breeder reports are an absolute favourite for HI readers. This is evident from every previous reader survey, and is underscored multiple times by personal conversations with farmers. Breeders really enjoy...
Tomasz Kocięba’s Dairy Enterprise: An Unimaginable Transformation!
Early this year (HI 01/24) HI published a feature article about Poland, one of the larger milk producing countries in Europe. The opening picture offered a beautiful view of the...
HWH-3Star Ella-P-RC: German Solitair Daughter with Seven Sons in AI
‘It is interesting to see how a relatively small investment can eventually lead to so much influence… like a small stone that you throw in the water, with the rings...
Calori-D Holsteins in California: ‘The Impact of Genetics on our Farm is Tremendous.’
“Family Matters”: the slogan on the farm sign beside the driveway of Calori-D Holsteins in Denair is absolutely fitting for the 2150-head dairy enterprise owned by the Mast family. In...
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...
Curtismill: ‘We changed to a custom index as too many high yielding cows were being bred to beef’
If you want to learn more about how a farm produced over twenty 100,000kg cows in 12 months, this article is for you. From securing a sustainable future to lowering...
Hallow Holsteins: Home of Ireland’s Famous Twizzle Cow Family
The Irish County of Wexford is the ancestral home of former US President John Kennedy, and a park carrying his name has been developed as a memorial. County Wexford is...
Herds worldwide - July 2024
The Fazenda Analândia enterprise owned by the De Boer family – situated in the Dutch colony of Castrolanda (Castro Parana) in southern Brazil – has 500 Holstein cows and just...
Doorco Holsteins: ‘We Focus on Everything Necessary for a Long-Lasting, Profitable Cow.’
Seven times, Doorco Holsteins – located in northeastern Wisconsin – has been recognized as a “Herd of Excellence”. No less than 49x they received the “Progressive Breeders Registry”. In addition,...
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...
Volkmann Holsteins Vogtland: Source of Five Iron Strong Generations and Vox Say-Red-PP
Beginning in August, the first daughters of Vox Say-Red-PP, the second most sold Red Holstein bull in Germany, will be coming into production. Say, launched by Masterrind/Synetics, comes from a...