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Parfect: Impacting the Breed in a Similar Way to Blackstar
Siemers Parfect has become one of the most popular sires of his generation. Parfect’s performance as a sire of an extensive list of sons, along with a long list of...
Dave Eastman Explains how Validity Genetic Testing Became Involved in the Semen Market
They may not have sales representatives on the road selling semen – in fact they have no sales staff at all – and yet Validity Genetic Testing has gained a...
Using Genetic Selection to Reduce Methane Emissions
In April 2023, Canada became the first country to add the trait Methane Efficiency to its genetic evaluations for Holsteins. In many other countries, developmental work is now well advanced...
Conant-Acres: Consistently Among the Top Type Herds of the US
Each year the Holstein Association publishes a list of the top BAA herds in the US, the herds with the highest average age-adjusted type classification score. Conant-Acres has consistently ranked...
Larcrest Cosmopolitan: A Major Impact Bloodline Worldwide
Larcrest Cosmopolitan: A distinctive, speckled cow with a very distinctive name, she became the icon for a bloodline that gained respect throughout the Holstein world. Via a long list of...
Holstein World Championship: Choose your World Champion 2023
It’s in a new format and a new time-slot…but it’s the 26th edition of the World Champion competition! This time we have more cows representing more countries than ever before:...
Cow Country - March 2024
Jean-Baptiste Decheppe of Gaec du Tombuy at Gimecourt in the north-east of France has a cow with a special story. ‘Gourmande was not born on our farm. It was our...
Calf Vitality: Selecting Genetics to Improve Heifer Survival
Over the past 15 years, Holstein breeding programs worldwide have produced dramatic gains, not just in terms of production but also for health and welfare outcomes too. Especially the rebound...
Intriguing Sires DNA - February 2024
With his very high combined fat and protein along with over 2.00 for PTAT and udders while maintaining strong mastitis resistance, Hardin has a lot to offer the breed. ‘Hardin...
Ashlyn: The Most Excellent Daughters in Breed History
In this Excellency issue there is no better cow to feature than the one that has produced the most EX daughters in breed history, the 2001 World Champion Tri-Day Ashlyn....
Maple Repeats as Red Holstein World Champion
She was the returning World Champion, only this year she had dominated the show world like no red cow before her, Blondin RD Unstopabull Maple-Red. And as her name suggests,...
Proof Reliability: Providing a Risk Assessment for each Genetic Evaluation
The reliability of an animal’s genetic evaluation expressed as a percentage provides a means to assess the likelihood and by how much a proof might change once more complete data...