Swissgenetics
Intruiging Sires 3 DNA - July 2023
Barros is the flagship bull of Italy’s Polar program. He was bred at Kibafarm, owned by brothers Gianpietro and Paolo Barre and located in the province of Sondrio. The herd...
A French sire is the darling of AI studs The big analysis of breeding for AI
No sire has put more sons into AI service internationally in recent years than O’Malley: every twentieth AI sire from the birth year 2019 onwards, worldwide, is a son of...
Andreas and Bettina Kocher, Switzerland: Investment in good genetics pays off
Andreas and Bettina Kocher have put together a strong Brown Swiss herd over the last 14 years. The pedigrees of their cows are dotted with illustrious names like Gordon Patty...
Brice-ET: Line Breeding to Perfection
April 2023. His breeder, Marc Schertenleib, combined his successful “B” family even several times in Brice’s pedigree.
New Generation Genetics: Passionate Stewards of the Brown Swiss Breed
It was the year that Holstein International started, 1994, the same year that a new name in the Brown Swiss world appeared on the scene: New Generation Genetics. That was...
Intriguing Sires DNA - June 2023
The midnight-coloured Meridian-PP is a son of Mendel-P from a GP-83 daughter of Monument-P who goes back to Des-Y-Gen Planet Silk. His production breeding values show moderate milk yield with...
BullTalk - April 2023
The accompanying table shows the top selling sires at ABS Global in China. Gary Gao from ABS China explains: ‘From all three, more than 30,000 doses (sexed and conventional) have...
Swissgenetics: ‘Quality is the Key to Success.’
‘Switzerland has a strong demand for quality. As such, there is also demand for higher meat quality, and a lot of beef production takes place on dairy farms. Eventually the...
(Virtually) Faultless Transmitters: Selected for You by Nearly All AI Companies World-wide
What is the value of a top bull with 3200 TPI if he transmits very short teats? What are the options for a sky high RZG sire if the stature...
Les Ponts Holsteins:‘Cows that Get Old Easily and Also Stay Beautiful.’
Enthusiastic and passionate. That is the first impression when arriving for a visit at the Dumas family and their farm Les Ponts Holsteins. Situated near Vaulruz, not far from the...
Intriguing Sires DP - November 2022
‘In Switzerland, we are thrilled to have such a high production and fitness bull with correct conformation.’ Jürg Stoll from Swissgenetics is referring to Ewing who (after Ranger-Red) is the...
Beef-on-Dairy Programs: Swissgenetics
The surge in use of beef bulls on lower genetic merit dairy cows continues to grow, and part of the evolution in this market is the use of male sexed...