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September 2024
Cow Country - September 2024

What is the synonym for “complete” in modern Holstein breeding? It may be Jacobs Goldwyn Brittany EX-96. She was successful in the showring, has a production high of 18,000kg/39,700lb and is a bull dam. Furthermore, her...

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September 2024
It’s a Barbie World: Barbie Goes Global

It was just 20 years ago that Regancrest-PR Barbie, bred at Regancrest Farms in Iowa, emerged as the Nr.1 PTAT cow of the breed. However, Barbie transmitted much more than just elite type, and she now impacts the breed i...

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September 2024
The Powerful “New Yorker” Maternal Line of Bestseller Cherry-Lily Luster-P

Elsewhere in this HI issue you read about the bestselling sires at 50 AI companies world-wide. Of these bestsellers, Cherry-Lily Luster-P is one of the big names, as this attractive bull from owner Select Sires has been...

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September 2024
Global Holstein Cow 2024 Here are the Finalists!

This is the 20th edition of the Global Cow Competition. Giving recognition to the most influential brood cows of the breed; that is why this competition was started. And that is what this competition has indeed done nine...

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September 2024
BoviSync:Easy to Use, Powerful Herd Management Software

BoviSync improves herd management through better software. Dairies of all sizes have benefit from managing their herd with BoviSync. BoviSync is cloud native with browser, android, and desktop applications.

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September 2024
Zoetis: Bringing Precision Agriculture to the Dairy Industry

Over the past 15 years the world of dairy cattle breeding has moved to a whole new level of sophistication, capitalizing on the ability to look directly at the genes that make up an animal. American company Zoetis brings...

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September 2024
Exclusive in Holstein International: The Bestsellers of 50(!) AI Companies around the World

Here they are: the bulls that in recent times have been used the most at AI companies all over the globe. No less than 50 in all, from AI companies in fourteen countries. The size of these AI companies varies (of course)...

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August 2024
Curtismill: ‘We changed to a custom index as too many high yielding cows were being bred to beef’

If you want to learn more about how a farm produced over twenty 100,000kg cows in 12 months, this article is for you. From securing a sustainable future to lowering carbon footprint – find it all here!

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August 2024
Ferme Coti, Quebec: A Well-known Source Provided a Significant Contribution to Their Nice Master Breeder Title

Just a short distance west of the metropolis of Montreal in the Canadian province of Quebec we find the beautiful farm of the Cloutier family. In 2021, they made national (and international) news thanks to a nice Master...

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August 2024
BullTalk - August 2024

To HI’s question ‘Which of your own sires should be used more often”, HI received a tremendous response from AIs world-wide. Besides the answers that you can find in an article elsewhere in this HI issue, we also include...

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August 2024
Focus on... August 2024

With 2.5 udder health – this index is based on 2.3 somatic cell and 2.5 mastitis resistance – the French Gymnast son Omnast is a specialist in that category. Also for longevity (2.2) and fertility (1.7) he scores splendi...

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August 2024
From New Mexico to international fame: Leaninghouse Taos’s road to the top

Nowadays there are many great daughter-proven Renegade sons, though Leaninghouse Taos is likely the most complete overall. Taos was bred by Rock-Hill Dairy in New Mexico. ‘At that time, Select Sires had a close relations...

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August 2024
Thanks to Renegade, Picston Shottle Is Receiving Even More Influence

In our previous history story, we looked at the pedigree of the matchless transmitter S-S-I Renegade and ascertained that in his near generations, just two transmitters appear twice: Man-O-Man and Shottle. Last time, we...

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August 2024
Part 2 about the Prudence family

The first episode about the enormous influence of the family of Golden-Oaks Mark Prudence EX-95 appeared in HI’s recent July issue. Now time for the impressive sequel, including the fantastic Red Range.

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August 2024
Cow Country - August 2024

KHE-Indiana VG-87 was up for sale as a heifer at the Thringia Auction Time in 2014. At the time, she was the highest Enforcer daughter with 166 RZG and was sold to a breeding cooperative. She was out of a VG-88 Windbrook...

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