Sires Report
Intriguing Sires 3 DNA - July 2022
‘Juri is the Nr.1 udder bull in Switzerland as well as in the German/Austrian system,’ explains Urs Wichser at Select Star. ‘In addition to pleasing overall type, Juri is a...
Intriguing Sires DNA 1 - July 2022
Bari is a young bull and will become available this summer. Peter Zischg from Superbrown expects that the Italian Barca son will become popular, especially since he is a full...
Intriguing Sires DP - June 2022
‘Beatclub is now more popular than ever, as he was the big winner of the recent April release. His daughters display tremendous progress in the second lactation.’ Speaking is Bernd...
Do you know the answer? Who is the sire with the most EX daughters of all-time?
Hand on your heart: would you have known which sire left behind the most EX daughters in the history of global Holstein breeding? Of course, you probably have a hunch...
Intriguing Sires DNA - June 2022
Precision debuted in April with a significant lead in first place on the German gRZG ranking. His trademark: indexes at the highest level in combination with the milk protein variants...
How the “old” Chief was Auctioned as an Unborn Calf
We go back in time sixty years. To – in Holstein country – an unusual state in the US: Nebraska. But: it is a place where one of the most...
BullTalk - June 2022
New sires regularly come and go in the top of the German progeny proven Red Holstein list. However, one name remains stable in the top-30: Arino-Red with a total index...
Stantons Chief: The New Standard for Uniform Quality at a High Level
‘Those who see a Chief want a Chief of their own. And those who milk a Chief want to milk more Chiefs.’ This quote was recorded in… 1966! When the...
“Surrogate Sires”: The Concept is now a Reality
How many times has this thought occurred? When an outstanding sire has a shortage of semen supply, or an elite bull is injured and cannot produce semen, or even when...
Focus on - June 2022
It is not a foregone conclusion that outstanding show cows make outstanding breeding cows. But they do exist, as several of the biggest talents from the show ring with noteworthy...
Intriguing Sires Polled - June 2022
‘Hailstone is very popular and is thus following in the footsteps of bestselling homozygote polled sires like Dynamite-PP and Debut-PP,’ says Hannah Noble from Cogent about the son of Hulk-P...
BullTalk - May 2022
‘This will become one of our most influential sires of sons,’ said Jeff Ziegler from Select Sires in the summer of 2021. This statement was confirmed in April. And how!...