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Cow Country 1 - January 2024
Show participation was not in the cards for Bernard, Steven and Cindy Routhier from Routina Holstein (130 milking cows/2 milking robots) in Quebec in recent years. Nevertheless, their farm, also...
Poland: Thanks to Lots of Breeding Passion and Underlying Unity En Route to the European Top
Poland is one of the largest countries in Europe in terms of both area and population (36.8 million). As a milk producer, Poland is among the European top-5. Beneath this...
Cow Country 2 - January 2024
If you glance through the European gTPI rankings you’ll notice a prefix that frequently appears: Cristella. This name belongs to an Italian farm situated near the village of San Daniele...
Winstar Mendel-P: Roxy Descendant and Nr.1 Polled Source in North America
In 2017, the Idaho enterprises Seagull-Bay Dairy, Triple Crown Genetics, and Cannon Dairy founded the ambitious breeding program WinStar Genetics. Three years later, Winstar Mendel-P became the nr.1 gTPI sire...
Søren Ernst Madsen, Tirsvad Genetics: ‘Female Animals are Still the Strength of Individual Breeders.’
Working fruitfully together with AIs. This quality, besides his strong entrepreneurial spirit, rich ET experiences and pure passion for elite breeding, makes Tirsvad Genetics owner Ernst Madsen one of the...
Cow Country I - November 2023
08-10-2023; a significant date for Jeff Lambrecht in Wisconsin. That day his Lambrecht Captain Eloise GP-83 became 36 months old, which marked the expiration of the purchase back rights of...
Cow Country II - November 2023
EX-94 2E at five years of age, high production records including a “Superior Lactation”, a ten-year-old EX-93 5E 11* dam with 100,000 kg/220,000 lb milk, Sunnylodge Prelude Spotty as foundation...
Unique news from Japan: Supersire daughter Currywebb pulverizes world record for milk!
Those who read Holstein International from cover to cover each month, likely know her name: Bell-Smart SS Currywebb VG-87. In October 2020, she appeared in Cow Country due to an...
Mirand: PP Sire of the Very Highest Conformation Level for Black and Red
With his debut, Coomboona Zipit Mirand-PP-RC from Australia generated a lot of international attention. Never before had a PP sire been able to display such high conformation indexes. And on...
Moved to the Neighbours: Bull Dam Apina Nadja 143 Flourishes in the Ubachs Herd
With three available sons, Apina Nadja 143 is one of the most remarkable bull dams in the Netherlands. As such, she is following in the rich bull dam tradition of...
Intriguing Sires DNA - October 2023
His name Sunburst was inspired by Skalsumer Sunny Boy, CRV’s famous globetrotter from the 1990s. Sunburst and Sunny Boy are both bred out of the Skalsumer Pietje family which has...
Cow Country I - October 2023
The Vermette family from La Ferme Verjatin Holstein in Quebec milks 35 high-indexing Jerseys. Their 35 Holsteins are also at a high level. This is particularly true of Verjatin Seabiscuit...