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Huddlestone Farm ‘Minimally One Standard Deviation Between Stature and Chest Width.’
‘Many people look at the linear profile of sires for individual traits, while it is actually about the balance between traits....’ Keith Gue enjoys talking openly about current breeding themes...
Danish Amber-PP-Red: Generous Source of High and Complete Red & White Polled Genetics
During the recent April round, 3Star-Tirsvad Ambo-P-Red debuted in second place on the Canadian red & white list, while his full brother Ranking-P-Red appeared with high conformation in the German...
Sabbiona Holsteins: Italian Source of Excellence for Fifty Years – 452 Homebred EX Cows!
In the location where Ireneo Ciserani started exactly fifty years ago with one cow, today there is a beautiful modern operation with 650 milking cows and 750 head of young...
Lynbrook Holsteins: Thoroughly Balanced International Gene Mix in Ireland
‘Many people ask me: “John, why aren’t you retiring?” But what would I do then, get out of bed late and watch TV? No, I want to get up every...
Morrill in New Hampshire Multi-faceted Family Farm with a Special Focus on Red Holsteins
Beautiful red & white descendants of Tri-Day Ashlyn, Gaige Highlight Tamara, and Rancon Carla Factor-Red – they can be admired in the far northeastern part of the US, on the...
Big Holsteins: Already 103 cows with over 100,000 kg/220,000 lb by Breeding for Persistency and Late Maturity
With 103 cows >100,000 kg/220,000 lb milk and 29 cows >10,000 kg/22,000 lb fat+protein, the farm of the Knoef family (Big Holsteins) in eastern Netherlands is a true model of...
Polled Holstein Elite Global Overview of Current Female Polled Genetics
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...
NCBC: Testing Beef-on-Dairy for Ten Years Already
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...
Top Performance in the Spanish Badiola herd: ‘We appreciate beautiful cows and high production.’
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...
Dúnmasc: All Beef Breeds have Something to Offer Beef-on-Dairy
Ireland has an index (DBI) that is especially developed for beef-on-dairy. ‘It’s a truly valuable instrument for both distributors and farmers to distinguish the best sires for beef-on-dairy,’ explains Stephen...
Intriguing Sires DNA - April 2023
‘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...
Intriguing Sires DP - March 2023
‘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...