JORDEN STEGINK

June 2024

Cow Families

Cow Country - June 2024

Initially, at Fairvue Farms (1500 milking cows) in the American state of Connecticut, only unregistered Holsteins were being milked. ‘Seven years ago we started implanting embryos from elite breeding programs...

June 2024

Herd reports

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...

June 2024

Misc Breeds

GGI-Spermex: Elite, All-round Sires that Meet the Most Modern Requirements

GGI-Spermex represents twelve German AI organization world-wide. The catalogue includes twelve dairy breeds! The largest, after Holstein/Red Holstein, are Fleckvieh, Brown Swiss and Angler. ‘The weeks following each new index...

June 2024

Sires Report

Intriguing Sires DNA - June 2024

Karl, a top-5 sire in the US, distinguishes himself with positive indexes for daughter fertility (+0.6 gDPR/+1.7 fertility index). ‘Dairymen want cows that produce a lot of high component milk...

May 2024

Management

Erbacres Snapple Shakira: Captures a Second World Title!

Grand Champion World Dairy Expo (US) and Royal Winter Fair (CA). Erbacres Snapple Shakira had excellent cards to win the World Title 2023. While the competition turned out to be...

May 2024

Management

Red Impact Competition 2024!

Since it’s inception 17 years ago, the Red Impact award has been recognizing the main contributors to shaping the impressive progress made by red & white genetics around the world....

March 2024

Cow Families

Successful Dutch Warsau/Warsi Family is Ready for the World

Their roots lie in the most eastern tip of Ontario. However, during the past three decades, the descendants of the Canadian Dutchglen Chieftess-Red have notably distinguished themselves in the Netherlands:...

February 2024

Sires Report

Intriguing Sires RED - February 2024

Handout is one of three leaders on the German gRZG list. His trademarks: lots of milk, average stature, high attached and shallow udders, longevity, very good fitness indexes, and 124...

February 2024

Sires Report

KAX Gladius: Nr.1 in Germany and a Model of Uniformity

First there was the admirable daughter group during HolsteinVision, followed shortly thereafter by a shared first place ranking on the German December release. Gladius could not have started his progeny...

February 2024

Herd reports

Willem’s-Hoeve Holsteins:Pursuit of New AI Sires Keeps the Breeding Fire Burning

Until the arrival of genomics, Willem’s-Hoeve Holsteins provided many AI sires each year, in part due to the multi-talented and easy breeding Rita family. Subsequently, the market changed drastically. By...

January 2024

Management

Poland: Thanks to Lots of Breeding Passion and Underlying Unity En Route to the European Top

Poland is one of the largest countries in Europe in terms of both area and population (36.8 million). As a milk producer, Poland is among the European top-5. Beneath this...

January 2024

Cow Families

Cow Country I - January 2024

Show participation was not in the cards for Bernard, Steven and Cindy Routhier from Routina Holstein (130 milking cows/2 milking robots) in Quebec in recent years. Nevertheless, their farm, also...