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She was one of the eye-catchers on the European show scene last winter, won Austria’s national show and represented Italy in the selection for world champion. To say that Jomagro Cheyenne-RC EX-90 is Europe’s most conspi...

We are immediately surprised as Silvo Baume tells about the unique climate in the beautiful region around his farm close to Les Breuleux in Switzerland. ‘Here it freezes nearly all twelve months of the year. Yes, also mi...

With its shiny new state-of-the-art dairy barn complete with sand-bedded free-stalls for the 100-cow herd, 2 milking robots, an on-farm produce store, elevated viewing area and function rooms, Browndale is preparing for...

While simultaneous improvement for production and fertility has been difficult to come by over the last decades, breeding has made the antagonism between these two traits a thing of the past. Although bulls that improve...

The accompanying table shows the top selling sires at ABS Global in China. Gary Gao from ABS China explains: ‘From all three, more than 30,000 doses (sexed and conventional) have been sold. Generally speaking, dairy farm...

His early daughters – by now in their fourth lactation – have already produced 60,000 kg/130,000 lb milk. And in the meantime, his breeding influence in the international Red Holstein population is visibly growing, even...

In order to register any young bull in Canada a genomic test is required. The Dickieson family of Birkentree Holsteins at North Rustico, Prince Edward Island, wanted to register a young herd bull so they sent away the re...

Grand Champion at the Estevanens Show in Switzerland last fall was Londaly Armani Lovely-Red EX-94. Earlier in her career Lovely had been Intermediate Champion at the Swiss Expo 2017 and 1st in her class in Bulle 2018. T...

There have been a number of recognized “Golden Crosses” in the breeding world…in this cow family it was Monterey over Cookiecutter Mogul Hanker and then King Doc over the Monterey’s. Now a third wave of great all-round,...

No sexed semen, strictly no flushing, yearlings in the barn by F16 Rocket (a sire born in 1983) and a closed herd for nearly 20 years… what gems could possibly be found in Ireland’s Drumcliffe herd? Here we discover the...

In February 2023, HI presented 22 EX daughters of the Roxy descendant Gloryland-I Goldwyn Locket EX-94. Remarkable: an unmentioned VG-85 Doorman out of Locket has likely provided the most valuable Locket descendant at th...

In HI’s March edition, Pine-Tree-I Pursuit (from Semex) came into view as one of the most faultless sires in the Holstein breed – also at a high index level. Reason for HI to delve into Pursuit’s pedigree and to highligh...

In a world-first, the April genetic evaluations in Canada include the new trait of Methane Efficiency. It is expected that this new genetic selection tool should enable dairy producers to achieve a 20-30% reduction in me...

Globally, the breeding of polled Holsteins is coming to greater maturity. The supply of attractive P and PP sires is steadily increasing with more variety. The same is true for the presence of remarkable female polled Ho...

Holsteins have become the universal dairy cow and dominate in most major dairy countries. However, it may not be a “one size fits all” situation. The interaction of genetics with environment has long been observed. Certa...