March 2024

‘We try to make the production circumstances for our cows as optimal as possible.’ On the farm of Philipp Hinnemann in Germany, nothing is left to chance: Not in terms of management, nor in terms of breeding. Which has r...

Canadian sire Boldi V Gymnast started his career as a bull that excelled in various evaluation systems. He ranked especially well on the basis of the RZG in Germany, and as his career unfolded, it was in fact in Europe t...

One of the brand new AI companies in North America is Showbox Sires. For distribution, they work with Select Sires and Semex, and the first four sires to be presented on their website are Duckett Tatoo Hendrix, JM-Valley...

The name Cleavage is known to everybody. She is the impressive Mogul daughter from the heart of the Roxy family. Cleavage herself is the 10th consecutive EX generation and she pass this impressive breeding power on to he...

Like we quite often do when we tackle articles about monumental cow families – we have to start with an apology… Obviously when a cow family has been so good, for so long, it is impossible to capture all the highlights o...

Their roots lie in the most eastern tip of Ontario. However, during the past three decades, the descendants of the Canadian Dutchglen Chieftess-Red have notably distinguished themselves in the Netherlands: Especially tha...

Jean-Baptiste Decheppe of Gaec du Tombuy at Gimecourt in the north-east of France has a cow with a special story. ‘Gourmande was not born on our farm. It was our friend and neighbor Adrien Dailly, who sells seeds, who fo...

Over the past 15 years, Holstein breeding programs worldwide have produced dramatic gains, not just in terms of production but also for health and welfare outcomes too. Especially the rebound in the levels of fertility a...

Thirty years of HI, or in other words: 360 HI editions! Enormously fascinating to leaf through all 360 editions – and thus to conclude that global breeding has gone through many phases. And especially: that the Holstein...

In the world of farming and cattle breeding there are many groups of young, passionate breeders that bring new wind to the sails of Holstein breeding around the world. The young breeders, spread around the entire globe,...

“Please send us a picture of the first edition of Holstein International that you still have in your possession.” To this request posted by HI last year on social media, there were many responses. A significant number of...

It’s in a new format and a new time-slot…but it’s the 26th edition of the World Champion competition! This time we have more cows representing more countries than ever before: No fewer than 24 exceptional cows are presen...

Quality milk from beautiful udders; that is the big wish of many dairy farmers world-wide. And thus the guide for this edition of Focus On, in which we feature three sires that combine a high udder index with an outstand...

In a nicely hidden valley, about 60 km southwest of Madison in the American state of Wisconsin, we find the relatively new breeding enterprise Trent-Way, owned by Trent and Kelsey Hendrickson. But: certainly not hidden a...