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BVN, Germany’s largest Fleckvieh breeding program will host an open house on May 1. At the new sire facility in Neustadt a.d.Aisch, thousands of visitors will be presented with about 80 impressive sires. ‘BVN is celebrat...

The French breeding organization Gènes Diffusion, working with the breed Charolais among others, has several decades of experience with beef-on-dairy. ‘As soon as farmers in our region switched to Holsteins, they were lo...

Very recently (HI 03/2023), an HI article appeared about the beef-on-dairy program at Semex. At the same time, on the cover of this Beef-on-Dairy International section you see a popular pupil from Semex: the Angus bull G...

‘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 demand came from Swiss agriculture itself: they...

A conformation average of 88 points on more than 300 classified cows, a total of 400 homebred EX cows,  eight national Grand Champion titles during the past twenty years, and an average annual production of  15,000 kg/33...

‘What makes Cirrus-P so popular? He is super balanced and does not have any knock-out faults. And he descends from a very attractive cow family.’ Speaking is Jordan Siemers about the Parfect son Winstar Cirrus-P, who via...

The name says it all: ST stands for Sexing Technologies. This organization is one of the important pioneers in the area of sexing semen. Thanks to this technology, dairy farmers can breed replacement animals from their b...

For ten years already, the National Cattle Breeding Centre (NCBC) has operated the largest beef-on-dairy program in Ireland, for Munster Bovine, Progressive Genetics and Ireland Genetics. ‘The Irish dairy herd has grown...

‘Beef-on-Dairy started a long time ago here. As soon as sexed semen was introduced, progressive dairy farmers started with beef-on-dairy. Four years ago that accelerated when calf growers started paying premiums for cros...

With a current lifetime production of nearly 40,000 kg/88,000 lb for all cows on the farm and a total of 72 cows that have surpassed the milestone of 100,000 kg/220,000 lb, Goldene Aue in Germany can rightly be considere...

The dairy industry of Western Australia is isolated from the rest of Australia’s dairy industry – it’s half a continent away and on the other side of the vast Nullarbor Plain. In spite of the distances, there is one herd...

The name Whiteleather has been part of the Holstein scene in Ohio for generations. In 2021 this herd had a cow set a new national production record for amount of fat (2,856lb/1295kg) produced in 305 days by a mature cow....

Red sires are continuing to build an impressive segment of international Holstein breeding and for that to remain, breeding programs around the world are continually working to develop new generations of young and intere...

With 2723 TPI and 3503 LPI respectively, Rubels-Red is the progeny proven nr.1 in both the US and Canada, while with 280 NVI he is in the top-10 of the Netherlands. Indeed, the widely sampled Argo son has absolutely made...

‘He is a progeny proven bull who is high in the ranking, with a very nice profile. Very generous milk production in combination with nice conformation and udders, healthy feet & legs, and an above average daughter fertil...