Management
Holstein Switzerland & Swissherdbook The bigger the challenge, the closer the cooperation
Regardless its breeding evaluation periods or genomic selection, linear description, milk testing or milk analysis, herdbook management or the production of shows and other events: the tasks that herdbooks around...
Global Dairy Youth Challenge: Your Favourite Sire Selection
In February, HI presented the winners of the Global Dairy Youth Challenge: William Neale (16) from the United Kingdom and Marieke Albring (25) from the Netherlands. For the 2022 Global...
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...
Oakfield Solomon Footloose The World Champion 2022
For 25 years, HI has been conducting the vote for the World Champion, but was there ever as hotly contested a dual as this year? The head-to-head battle between the...
Calbrett Miranda-P-RC: The first polled cow on the Global Cow throne
That the selection of the Global Cow 2021 would be one of the most suspenseful decisions in the history of this competition was to be expected, given the strong and...
Van de Plashoeve: Source of Dutch Blue for Beef-on-Dairy
With 45 active AI sires at thirteen different breeding companies in their homeland and abroad, Morsink Dutch Blue is a significant source for the Beef-on-Dairy sector. For more than twenty...
The Global Cow Winner for 2022 is… Blondin Goldwyn Subliminal
She was the clear choice for number one by the voting public, Blondin Goldwyn Subliminal. And both the official judges included her in their placings too, with the combined points...
Winners of the Global Dairy Youth Challenge William Neale & Marieke Albring
In December, HI presented the eight Global Dairy Youth Challenge finalists. All eight received a lot of votes. The winner of the under 18 category: William Neale from Great Britain,...
Why Production and Fertility can be Found Together more often, and Genetics are Becoming ever More Important!
Since the introduction of the fertility breeding values in the early 2000s, a trend has been recognizable in Holstein breeding that even today is unknown to many dairy farmers: an...
Why Don’t we Have Greater Uniformity Among Fitness Traits Around the World?
Productive Life, Herd Life, Lifespan, Survival – it seems almost every country uses a different name. Who knew there were so many ways to refer to longevity; and that’s just...
The Value of Looking at the Actual Production Averages for Daughters of Bulls
Daughter production records – after adjustment for all the factors that might bias that data – are used to generate the genetic evaluation a bull receives. A reader of Holstein...
Jürg and Alexander Hofmann (Hokovit) ‘Only the smart ones buy from us!’
For decades, the Swiss company Hofmann Nutrition AG, under the brand name Hokovit, has been an esteemed name in the European feed industry. Hokovit, which is primarily known for its...