June 2024

With Claynook Zeebah Letchworth in the Nr.1 position for young females and Ranger son Claynook Zard-RC in second place on the sire list, Claynook Farms in Ontario is drawing a lot of attention, also after the recent Apri...

Beginning in August, the first daughters of Vox Say-Red-PP, the second most sold Red Holstein bull in Germany, will be coming into production. Say, launched by Masterrind/Synetics, comes from a unique cow family. Females...

Karl, a top-5 sire in the US, distinguishes himself with positive indexes for daughter fertility (+0.6 gDPR/+1.7 fertility index). ‘Dairymen want cows that produce a lot of high component milk and stay healthy and that i...

With 161 RZG, he leads the German top-list and is a new, very attractive sire of sons for Red Holstein breeding. He is currently among the highest red and white sires for RZG, RZGesund (131) and feet and legs (138). Skil...

The tremendous interest in Farnear Delta-Lambda requires no explanation – reason why HI started a trilogy about his pedigree. Part 1 (February) was about Melwood, who appears 11x in Lambda’s pedigree. In Part 2 (April) w...

Carenzo comes from the Danish breeding barn Anderstrup. Particularly in Germany, he was used very intensively and as a sire of sons. Carenzo was one of the youngest Crown sons on the market and convinced as a very balanc...

Genosource Captain – Nr.1 in the US, Canada, and Great Britain – is one of the heavyweights right now. One of his high sons that is widely available (both conventional and sexed) is the interesting Gen Percival from AI T...

‘Money-P was already very popular as a DNA sire. At the beginning of his career, he was the highest bull for both gRZG and gRZ€. Also outside of the RUW region, he was very appreciated from the outset,’ explains Fides-Ju...

Initially, at Fairvue Farms (1500 milking cows) in the American state of Connecticut, only unregistered Holsteins were being milked. ‘Seven years ago we started implanting embryos from elite breeding programs such as AOT...

At the Ontario Spring Show two descendants of the 24 brood-star Kingsway Sanchez Arangatang EX-95 stood at the top of their classes… which jogged our memory to Britain’s recent UK Dairy Expo where an Arangatang successor...

The Apple dynasty is playing a dominant role in red & white breeding and has given a whole new meaning to the term ‘elite conformation’. With her sale price of one million dollars, her dazzling show career, and her sensa...

So, this all started by posing the question… when do Red & White Holsteins attract more attention? If we’re going to move this part of the Holstein breed forward, let’s start by figuring out WHERE they add value.

It is not that long ago that Italy had various purely Italian AIs, every single one of them with sires that were being used world-wide. Elpzoo with Del Santo Corsaro and Fontana Mark Paradise, Cofa with Del Santo Callist...

The calf is the cow of tomorrow and as such the future of the farm. Today’s calf rearing lays the foundation for the cows that we will be milking in two years. So, if we want to milk better cows in the future, then we ne...

The most significant sire news from the famous Heritage Pride Dutch Belted herd at Legend Dairy Farms in California? Owner Ron Pietersma and Breeding Manager Larry Gerber mention, without hesitation, the launch of Herita...

‘Working internationally, Synetics comes into contact with strongly differing circumstances, and can offer breeds that are well-adapted,’ says Mariëlle Breheret, who indicates that Normande and Brown Swiss are good alter...

In the middle of this month, Besamungsstation Greifenberg (BSG) will open a brand new production and collection barn. The German AI has 40 Fleckvieh bulls and 30 Brown Swiss sires in their current line-up. We asked Katri...

With the construction of a new facility for semen production and processing at the existing Kagelberg site in Austria, Genostar shows trust in its breeders for its future. This investment will allow breeders to be excite...

In recent years, Mahango-Pp has established himself as the leading dual-purpose Fleckvieh sire in the world. With a perfect combination of milk and carcass yield as well as the desired polled trait, he has revolutionized...

GGI-Spermex represents twelve German AI organization world-wide. The catalogue includes twelve dairy breeds! The largest, after Holstein/Red Holstein, are Fleckvieh, Brown Swiss and Angler. ‘The weeks following each new...

Besides a varied lineup of Holstein and Red Holstein sires, KI Kampen is also focused on the originally Dutch breeds MRIJ (red & white) and FH (black & white). ‘Our MRIJ lineup currently consists of four progeny proven s...

Siemers Parfect has become one of the most popular sires of his generation. Parfect’s performance as a sire of an extensive list of sons, along with a long list of bulls out of Parfect daughters, ensure that he will beco...