United States of America
Fiona: Head of a Thriving Branch of the Ebony Family at Opsal Ridge in Wisconsin
Finley was the biggest name to come from the Fiona family – he was the bull that put the Opsal herd on the international Holstein map more than a decade...
BullTalk - December 2017
Do you know who is among the most sold sires at World-Wide Sires? Mapel Wood Brewmaster! The now 7-year-old Canadian is very popular world-wide, explains Scott Ruby from WWS. As...
Cow Country - December 2017
Ideal Dairy Farms (1,900 cows) in New York is the home of several excellent cow families. Well-known examples are the EX-94 Bookem daughter Quiet-Brook-D Babybrook and particularly the Cookiecutter Halo...
Intriguing Sires - Montey & Judo & Vitesse
With Montross, the American brood cow Unique-Style Bolton Money EX-93 provided the most influential Mogul son. In combination with Mogul, Money also provided a second successful transmitter: Monty, whose semen...
Intriguing Sires - Achiever & Addiction & Yoda
‘Achiever offers a wonderful combination of traits that are interesting today: medium stature (-0.24 stature), high components (952lb milk, +.30%F, +.06%P), great fitness (2.4 DPR, 2.77 SCS, 6.2 calving ease,...
California’s “Supermarket for Genetics”: RuAnn & Maddox Dairy: 1,400 Home-Bred Excellent Cows!
The San Joaquin Valley in California is 300 miles long and 100 miles wide and is one of the most productive agricultural regions in the world. A combination of rich...
Welcome-Tel Brennan: 5 generations, 5 different prefixes
In June 2003 HI reported about the Hidden-View Lead Becca cow family and in October 2003 we wrote about a headline daughter-proven sire that had just emerged from the bloodline,...
Olmar Baby Bumble: Deep Minnesota Cow Family with Current Impact
Olmar has been one of the top breeder herds of Minnesota for almost 60 years. For most of that time, different branches of the one cow family have fought for...
Coyne-Farms Mass Jill: Males More Successful than Females
With 3 sons on the TPI and LPI top-lists, along with 5 grand-sons and great grand-sons on the genomic top-lists in the US and Germany, Coyne-Farms Mass Jill is having...
Tiger-Lily Lulu: Ladd-P was Just the Beginning for this Special Cow Family
Five years ago the arrival of the high-type red bull Tiger-Lily Ladd-P focused attention on the Lulu family at Marshman Farms in New York. Via his sire Destry, Ladd-P offered...
Bomaz: Successful with Consistent Breeding for Production and Fitness
The highest DNA bull with an AI code (Bomaz Skywalker, 2961 gTPI) and 14 female Holsteins in the top-200 for Net Merit; the Bomaz prefix is very strongly woven with...
BullTalk - November 2017
Germany’s highest indexing Holstein calf – no less than 169 gRZM – is owned by the Giesmann family and is a daughter of the cow Balisto Jolene and the sire...