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Level-Plain Holsteins: Lots of AI Sires, All from One Homebred Cow Family
Breeders who want to breed animals with competing or even higher genomics than those from large nucleus programs, give themselves a huge task. Keith Nettekoven does not shy away from...
UK Dairy Day 2024: Golden Title for Evening Sidekick Jennifer
Some champion titles carry extra weight. Purely due to the sublime quality of the competition. The Holstein title at the 10th UK Dairy Day is one of these, with a...
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...
Global Holstein Cow 2024 Here are the Finalists!
This is the 20th edition of the Global Cow Competition. Giving recognition to the most influential brood cows of the breed; that is why this competition was started. And that...
Milkworth Manfred Yadda: Source of Productive Holsteins That Perform Easily in Commercial Environments
Although born shortly before the turn of the century, the current TPI score of 2014 displayed by Milkworth Manfred Yadda proves that she was entirely made for the 21st century....
Cow Country - August 2024
KHE-Indiana VG-87 was up for sale as a heifer at the Thringia Auction Time in 2014. At the time, she was the highest Enforcer daughter with 166 RZG and was...
Part 2 about the Prudence family
The first episode about the enormous influence of the family of Golden-Oaks Mark Prudence EX-95 appeared in HI’s recent July issue. Now time for the impressive sequel, including the fantastic...
Prudence Family: Source of Late-Maturing Holsteins with Index Power
Sherman Herrington, a passionate breeder in the American state of New York, laid the foundation. He set out to develop Holsteins that would reach their peak at ten years of...
Intriguing Sires DNA - July 2024
‘Oli, a Conway grandson via sire Letchworth, is the nr.2 gLPI bull. Both in Canada and the US (3159 gTPI) Oli dazzles via strong components, desirable fitness, and high conformation...
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...
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...
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...