JORDEN STEGINK

April 2025

Cow Families

Aot Deluxe Hi-Lighted: The Newest Super Bull Dam from the Halo Family

Aot Deluxe Hi-Lighted appeared in the news one year ago, thanks to her Nr.1 gLPI son Beyond Hi-Power. The consistently high DNA indexes of all her descendants predicted more AI...

April 2025

Cow Families

Cow Country - April 2025

The Netherlands has two famous Pietje families. Descending from the Woudhoeve Pietjes is Poppe Snow-RC, the maternal great-grandsire of Gywer-RC. The Skalsumer Pietjes provided Skalsumer Sunny Boy, for years the...

April 2025

Cow Families

Youthful Wilcor O Katy Wins 51st Schau der Besten

The elite sale ‘Die Auction’ plus the breeder’s gala on the eve, three current daughter groups from the Synetics breeding program, a dazzling show with Wilcor O Katy as the...

April 2025

Herd reports

Dewgood Holsteins: Decades of Breeding Provides Elite Productions with Jersey-like Components

While some farms around Oconto in Wisconsin currently milk thousands of cows, Dean and Wanda Good continue to manage 70 Holsteins along with the accompanying young stock. The highest profitability...

March 2025

Cow Families

Cow Country - March 2025

3176 TPI, position 92. This top-100 ranking of Hurtgenlea Parfect Myndi VG-86 on the American cow index list shows that the several generations of a homebred cow family owned by...

March 2025

Sires Report

Small German AI OHG Harvests Five Top-10 RZG Sires: ‘We Strive for the Most Efficient Breeding Program Possible’

Five sires in the progeny proven top-10 RZG. This remarkable result was obtained by OHG during the December release. Remarkable, because the German herdbook (38,000 animals on milk production recording)...

March 2025

Sires Report

Intriguing Sires DNA - March 2025

‘The thing I like the best about this bull is there isn’t anything I don’t like about him. He checks every box from production, type, fitness and pedigree. And being...

February 2025

Sires Report

Intriguing Sires DNA - February 2025

Since August, Ripcord is leading the American genomic list. The Dellia representative offers nearly 3400 gTPI, very good fitness, and 1.42 leg set. Rump angle (-1.79) is his most significant...

February 2025

Management

Adolf Langhout: ‘Developing Elite Holsteins Always Begins with an Embryo.’

For more than 35 years, Adolf Langhout has been internationally active in the marketing of elite genetics. His enterprise ALH Genetics is one of the largest importers world-wide of American...

February 2025

Cow Families

Al-Lew Monterey Ashley: The Dam of Arrow and Splendidly Complete Daughters

As a young sire, Aristocrat grabbed the headlines selling for $640,000. Today his conformation-rich brother Arrow turns out to be more popular. The American brood cow Al-Lew Monterey Ashley EX-95,...

January 2025

Herd reports

VDR Holsteins: Home of the Especially Complete and Popular Sandra Family

It is likely that precisely this month she will pass the milestone of 10,000 kg/22,000 lb fat & protein. The ten-year-old VDR Sandra 2 EX-92 (<Malki) thus provides ultimate proof...

December 2024

Cow Families

Cow Country - December 2024

For twenty years, Dan Reuter has been breeding at Reuter Dairy (950 milking cows) in Iowa, with the offspring of Barbie sister Regancrest-RB Bunny EX-93. With as a notable result...