Management
Melanie Harmitt: The State of the Industry in the UK
Melanie Harmitt is the CEO of Holstein UK: Here she gives us some insights into the British dairy industry. Each year 3,000 British Holstein breeders register over 200,000 animals with...
Fertility & Genetics: Become Familiar with the Different Traits that have Produced a Major Success Story
The most important improvement over the past 20 years ensuring the Holstein retains its position as the world’s premier dairy cow has been in the area of her fertility. Credit...
Heat Stress: The Modern Dairy Cow is less Heat Tolerant Than in the Past
Every summer, heat stress leads to lost milk production and supressed fertility rates in the modern dairy cow. Selection for more heat tolerant animals, incorporating the slick gene, providing housing...
Recumbency: Calves that Can’t Stand Up
The latest genetic disorder to be identified in the Holstein breed involves calves that appear normal but can’t stand up. It has taken researchers more than a year to unravel...
Unique: The Most Influential Dams and Breeding Icons behind the Highest American Sires!
Here follow the most prominent dams, foundation dams, and breeding icons behind the highest DNA and progeny proven sires from the recent April release - with a special role for...
Software Meets Dairy Management: Solutions to allow for better decisions!
Take a moment to look back and think about what your situation was like 20 years ago. What technology was available at the time and how would you have solved...
The sharp rise of global milk production – New countries and traditional Holstein nations are trying to find their balance
Milk has been consumed in this world for millennia, but never as much as now in the 20th and 21st centuries. And the increase in global milk production seems to...
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...
Do Grazing Conditions Require a Different Type of Cow?
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...
Canada Releases the World’s First Methane Efficiency Genetic Evaluations
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...
Beef-On-Dairy: Semex Breeds a Nr.1 Indexing Beef Bull from Their Internal Program
Semex offers it’s popular Elevate genomic testing program to help dairy producers choose the females to breed with sexed semen to produce herd replacements, diverting other females to be bred...
(Virtually) Faultless Transmitters: Selected for You by Nearly All AI Companies World-wide
What is the value of a top bull with 3200 TPI if he transmits very short teats? What are the options for a sky high RZG sire if the stature...