USA
Herds Worldwide - January 2025
‘My breeding goal has not changed much throughout my career. I still appreciate functional cows that can last a long time and look good. Every morning I need to get...
How the Most Popular Cow in the World was Discovered… ...and Came into the Global Limelight at Mil-R-Mor Farm
Of course she has formidable competition, for example from Dellia, Laurie Sheik, and other female Holstein legends. But: nevertheless, Glenridge Citation Roxy still graciously carries the “Queen of the Breed”...
Cow Country - January 2025
Normandy, in the central west of France, is home to Gaec de la Chapelle, where Piet and Christina Bakker milk a herd of 75 cows. That’s where we pictured one...
Lambrecht Dairy in Wisconsin: Top Quality Forages Lead to Exceptional Components
The 320-cow herd at Lambrecht Dairy is currently averaging 92lb/42kg at 4.8% fat and 3.4% protein on twice daily milking. Located at Kewaunee, about 2½ hours north-east of Madison, the...
Sunshine Genetics in Wisconsin: Exporting Embryos to the World
Sunshine Genetics has a long history as the leading embryo transfer facility in America’s dairy-land of Wisconsin. Established in the 1970s, Sunshine Genetics has made the exporting of embryos a...
Cow Country - December 2024
For twenty years, Dan Reuter has been breeding at Reuter Dairy (950 milking cows) in Iowa, with the offspring of Barbie sister Regancrest-RB Bunny EX-93. With as a notable result...
Heritage-Pride, California: Impressive Dutch Belted Herd, Acquired Via Two-Pronged Approach
In the 1990s, the number of representatives of the Dutch Belted breed world-wide turned out to have dropped below 500. For Ronald (Ron) Pietersma – an American with Dutch roots...
Young Breeders School Battice: The experiences of Team USA
The Young Breeder School (YBS) in Battice (Belgium) is well-known around the world. The young participants arrived from 17 different countries. Primarily from Europe, but also from Canada, New Zealand,...
Cow Country - November 2024
GENIA IS BRILLIANT‘We strive for a highly efficient, economical and resource efficient cow,’ states Jürg Hofmann of Hokovit Genetics in Switzerland. One of his current stars is the Silverridge Einstein...
Renegade is Royalty
S-S-I PR Renegade is a former winner of the Outcross Sire of the Year title, being sired by the French bull Jaltaoak and out of a Millington daughter. Further back...
Herds Worldwide - November 2024
Farming in southern Wisconsin has its challenges – land prices are high and the weather is sometimes extreme, from -28°C in the winter to 43°C in the summer. ‘Sometimes the...
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...