Management
30 Years of Holstein International: 1994-2024 The Most Significant Breeding Changes and a Look at a Variety of Sires
Thirty years of HI, or in other words: 360 HI editions! Enormously fascinating to leaf through all 360 editions – and thus to conclude that global breeding has gone through...
Holstein World Championship: Choose your World Champion 2023
It’s in a new format and a new time-slot…but it’s the 26th edition of the World Champion competition! This time we have more cows representing more countries than ever before:...
Young minds, big ideas: the vibrancy of our young breeders!
In the world of farming and cattle breeding there are many groups of young, passionate breeders that bring new wind to the sails of Holstein breeding around the world. The...
Calf Vitality: Selecting Genetics to Improve Heifer Survival
Over the past 15 years, Holstein breeding programs worldwide have produced dramatic gains, not just in terms of production but also for health and welfare outcomes too. Especially the rebound...
Corn: The biggest differences are in the details
The key to efficient milk production is the quality of the forages. Only with high digestible, energy rich forages can the best results be achieved. This is where the biggest...
Maple Repeats as Red Holstein World Champion
She was the returning World Champion, only this year she had dominated the show world like no red cow before her, Blondin RD Unstopabull Maple-Red. And as her name suggests,...
Proof Reliability: Providing a Risk Assessment for each Genetic Evaluation
The reliability of an animal’s genetic evaluation expressed as a percentage provides a means to assess the likelihood and by how much a proof might change once more complete data...
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...
Setting the Standard: The Highest Classified Holsteins World-Wide
As a feature of this “Excellency” issue, Holstein International brings you this overview of the highest classified cows from different countries around the globe. They are the best of the...
The fascinating world of EX cows: What does it look like now and what will it be like in the future?
On the occasion of our special issue, the “Excellent Edition,” we reached out to three head classifiers from around the world. They are Dorothee Warder of Germany, Bruno Jubinville of...
A successful start to lactation: decisive to production and fertility
The time around calving is always tied to a lot of stress and excitement. On hand, it means that there is new life coming to the farm, while on the...
STg General Manager Juan Moreno:‘Our Industry Made a Significant Mistake!’
For most dairy farms, sexed semen has become an indispensable instrument in management. A driving force behind the global rise of sexed semen is Sexing Technologies. But: ST did not...