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November 2019

Sires Report

Intriguing Sires - November 2019

With two sons in the progeny proven top-10, the German bull dam KNS Reality VG-86 is meeting expectations in Italy. Her Balisto son Brasileiro (3398 PFT) stands out with high...

November 2019

Cow Families

Roz Family: Realizing The Ultimate Combination

The Roz family at Siemers Holsteins in Wisconsin has become one of the top performers on the genomic scene. A finalist in this year’s Global Cow competition is Siemers Delta...

November 2019

Herd reports

Here is #2 of the most influential breeders of the past 25 years: Regancrest Farm

It can be heard regularly, that it is all about the nr.1, the winner. Well, let us immediately state that this is certainly not the case for HI’s current breeders’...

October 2019

Cow Families

Integrity Robin: Consistent Transmitting Power Typical of the Roxys

In the 1970’s, Glenridge Citation Roxy EX-97 emerged as one of the great cows of the breed, eventually going on to be acclaimed as the Queen of the Breed and...

October 2019

Sires Report

Intriguing Sires - October 2019

No matter what you think of line-breeding, it worked for Canada’s Nr.1 gLPI sire S-S-I Biggelo, as the Delroy-son features the O-Man Mirror family on both sides of his pedigree....

October 2019

Sires Report

Josuper and Sons: Providing an Impulse of Milk for the Breed

Supersire son Uecker Josuper sits at Nr.10 on the TPI charts with three sons ranked ahead of him: Frazzled, Rowdy and Raiden. His all important trait of massive milk production...

October 2019

Sires Report

Focus on... International top sires

In his debut on a daughter-proven basis in August he was able to celebrate being one of the most noteworthy newcomers with his 2612 TPI (428 daughters). Nonetheless, the gap...

October 2019

Sires Report

BullTalk - October 2019

He is new in America’s progeny proven type top-10, holding 6th place, with no less than +3.48 PTAT. With 2525 TPI, he is the highest total transmitter in the top-10....

October 2019

Cow Families

Cow Country - October 2019

‘The most prominent qualities of this family are capacity and strength. The cows have outstanding frames with tremendous capacity, strength through the loins, and wide rumps. And they are furnished...

October 2019

Cow Families

Cow Country - October 2019

After years of absence, Brent and Kim Mitchell from Victoria immediately captured the Intermediate title with Mitch Aftershock Irene at Australia’s national show (IDW) in 2017. Two years later they...

October 2019

Sires Report

Frazzled Lives Up To Expectations

With numerous Frazzled sons and daughters featuring on high genomic lists, the daughter-based proof of this Josuper son was highly anticipated: Quite a lot depended on Frazzled maintaining his genomic...

October 2019

Herd reports

Plain-Knoll: Early Adoption of Genomics Provided Splendid Breeding Successes

Steve Buschur from Plain-Knoll Holsteins in Ohio is not only a very friendly man, but also someone who approaches Holstein breeding very progressively. For example, at a very early stage,...