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July 2022
Volker: From a strong branch

Volker, from the cattle union Baden-Württemberg (RBW), delivers on his genomic breeding values and impresses as a strong production, daughter-proven sire. At the same time, he is the best udder sire among the sons from V...

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July 2022
Intriguing Sires DNA 1 - July 2022

Bari is a young bull and will become available this summer. Peter Zischg from Superbrown expects that the Italian Barca son will become popular, especially since he is a full brother of Superbrown Jonio, the Italian Nr.1...

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July 2022
Intriguing Sires 3 DNA - July 2022

‘Juri is the Nr.1 udder bull in Switzerland as well as in the German/Austrian system,’ explains Urs Wichser at Select Star. ‘In addition to pleasing overall type, Juri is a high component specialist with extreme fat and...

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July 2022
The favourites of the AI studs

Which cow families drive the breeding train? That is what BSI wanted to know of the AI studs and enquired about. In addition, we carried out our own analyses: which cows delivered the most AI sires in recent years, more...

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July 2022
Disolabruna Guarantees milk from Brown Swiss

The Italian Brown Swiss breeding association Anarb brought the brand Disolabruna to life 17 years ago. Only cheese and other dairy products from pure Brown Swiss milk can be marketed with its logo and more than a few con...

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July 2022
Journey through the breeding world

Where is the trend heading the Brown Swiss AI studs? The following article will detail the answer, which shows that the differences in the bloodlines of the sires of sons are large.

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Intriguing Sires DNA 2 - July 2022

‘Riesling is the O’Malley son with the highest milk value in various countries, for example in Germany, France, Italy, Switzerland and the USA. Furthermore, he is currently the highest foreign bull in Germany with a GZW...

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July 2022
Global Dairy Youth Challenge: Preliminary Round One

After the success of the first competition in 2020, for the second time HI presents the Global Dairy Youth Challenge: a competition for young people. Via four preliminary rounds, the participants will be presented in two...

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July 2022
Schau der Besten: Impressive Show Case for the Masterrind Breeding Region

‘Fantastic that we can do this again!’ Many participants, spectators, and organizers would have had a similar thought during their first elite show in perhaps two or maybe even three years. The 48th Schau der Besten, org...

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June 2022
Stantons Chief: The New Standard for Uniform Quality at a High Level

‘Those who see a Chief want a Chief of their own. And those who milk a Chief want to milk more Chiefs.’ This quote was recorded in… 1966! When the very first daughters of Pawnee Farm Arlinda Chief, born in 1962, came int...

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June 2022
“Surrogate Sires”: The Concept is now a Reality

How many times has this thought occurred? When an outstanding sire has a shortage of semen supply, or an elite bull is injured and cannot produce semen, or even when an outstanding young prospect fails a health test – th...

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June 2022
Intriguing Sires Polled - June 2022

‘Hailstone is very popular and is thus following in the footsteps of bestselling homozygote polled sires like Dynamite-PP and Debut-PP,’ says Hannah Noble from Cogent about the son of Hulk-P (

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June 2022
Do you know the answer? Who is the sire with the most EX daughters of all-time?

Hand on your heart: would you have known which sire left behind the most EX daughters in the history of global Holstein breeding? Of course, you probably have a hunch and names like Elevation, Starbuck, Durham, Outside,...

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June 2022
Intriguing Sires DP - June 2022

‘Beatclub is now more popular than ever, as he was the big winner of the recent April release. His daughters display tremendous progress in the second lactation.’ Speaking is Bernd Koch from Qnetics (Phönix) about the so...

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June 2022
BullTalk - June 2022

New sires regularly come and go in the top of the German progeny proven Red Holstein list. However, one name remains stable in the top-30: Arino-Red with a total index of 129 RZG, based on 4063 daughters. As such, he is...

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