Italy
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...
Focus on their Background: Italy’s Champions, Two Special Breeding Stories
In early November, in the northern Italian city of Montichiari, Italy’s National Holstein Show took place. All results are included at the bottom of this page. Remarkable are the stories...
Cow Country II - November 2021
The cow that we are talking about here is an original US product and has her home there at Budjon Farms. However, Our-Favorite Lustre, the VG-89 King Doc out of...
Cow Country - September 2021
With two family branches in the top-10 of most recognized brood cows (HI 07/21), the L family in the Clydebank herd (300 milking cows) is one of the very strongest...
Exclusive: The ultimate update about the herds worldwide with the most EX cows (1)
To breed a Holstein that is distinguished as being EX is an accomplishment to be proud of even in times when Holstein breeding is continually striving towards more commercial goals....
All Garioni in Italy: Purposeful Construction with Strong Cow Families and Progeny Proven Sires
For the public at large, the Garioni prefix became especially known for the Montross son Garioni Vanhalen, who with more than 6000 daughters now reaches 3579 PFT, 1.80 conformation and...
Cow Country - July 2021
Strong and shallow udders, well-formed rumps: the 75 milking cows at Desnette Holsteins in Quebec display eye-catching type. This herd provided, for example, Desnette Adelicia Impression VG-89, HM All-Canadian Milking-1-Yr...
Here is the Grand Finale of HI's Cow Family Tournament
In HI’s March 2021 issue, you found preliminary round one: 50 impressive cow families from various continents. This presentation was followed in the April edition by preliminary round two, again...
Intriguing Sires - June 2021
With 2833 TPI, Positive debuted in America’s progeny proven top-10 during the recent April release; an official Canadian progeny proven index is expected in August. ‘Positive has been very popular...
BullTalk - May 2021
DG Charley is certainly unique. Without a doubt, he can call himself the sire of likely the world’s most talked about bull right now: Hurtgenlea Charl, America’s brand new TPI...
Intruiging Sires - May 2021
Marius is a Jedi son from a family line descending from Sully Shottle May, the mother of McCutchen. The Marius proof has climbed by over 100 points since last round...
Cow Country - May 2021
The purchase of North-Echo 2905 (Day-Planet-Form Bret) in 2013 did not initially provide Sheland Farms in New York (900 milking cows) with the desired result. ‘Unfortunately she did not flush...