Sires Report
Focus on - January 2019
Have you ever tried to find a sire of sons that has a high overall breeding value with below average inheritance for frame size? We admit that the search is...
BullTalk - December 2018
Those who thought that genomics would eliminate them… are mistaken! They still exist, the tenacious super-millionaires. In October, we reported that the 15-year-old Planet passed the milestone of 1.5 million...
Meet the World’s 55th Holstein millionaire: Seagull-Bay Supersire
At the end of this month, on December 28, 2018, he will turn 8 years old – and by then will have substantially exceeded one million doses produced. In early...
Intriguing Sires - Artist & Solito-Red & Thunder Storm
Since his start a good year ago, Stone-Front Artist has been one of the best-liked sires in the program of St Jacobs ABC. And now, with his first calves impressing...
Focus on - December 2018
In contrast to beta casein, whose ideal form is A2A2, the kappa casein variant has real economic meaning. Milk from cows with the ideal genotype of BB can give a...
BullTalk - November 2018
He is one of the top-5 highest gTPI Red Holstein bulls and is widely available: Rhala-Re Blues-Red. Good for 2664 gTPI, owned by AI Total, a son of Salvatore (see...
Apoll-P-Red – Not a Perfect Nr.1, but Unbelievably Influential
At the start of this career he was the German Nr.1 among the red young sires. Then came his sons and Schreur Apoll, the Aikman son of the famous Verhages...
Focus on - November 2018
For commercial dairy farmers, it likely does not make a difference if a sire was born via ET/IVF or via more natural means. But for organic farms it does matter....
Val-Bisson Doorman: Absolute Trendsetter for Type
After the Mogul Memorandum in HI June 2018, we are now publishing the Doorman Dossier. It is a unique and extensive article about the background and achievements of a special...
Intriguing Sires - Garant & Harper & Melvin
With an increase of 5 points for his overall breeding value to 135 RZG and an impressive 8-point gain for conformation to a strong value of 134 RZE, Garant was...
Intriguing Sires - Neutron & Daylite & Jacuzzi
Since April, Neutron has been in the Italian top-3 and is thus the most significant new name behind the reigning leader, Sound System. ‘Neutron is not only our second highest...
Progenesis Fortune: Outcross Prospect at the Highest Level
In early October, at Character Holsteins in Canada, the Marius daughter Peaches was celebrated as the first female Holstein above 3000 gTPI for the Progenesis breeding program. A special detail:...