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April 2025

Dewgood Holsteins: Decades of Breeding Provides Elite Productions with Jersey-like Components

While some farms around Oconto in Wisconsin currently milk thousands of cows, Dean and Wanda Good continue to manage 70 Holsteins along with the accompanying young stock. The highest profitability...

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April 2025

Management

Udder health: The small things make a big difference

High quality milk from healthy udders of high producing and long living cows is exactly what dairy farmers around the world are striving for. Udder health plays an important role...

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Everyone Wants to Milk the (Very) Long-lasting Cows from Saetteli Holsteins

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Aot Deluxe Hi-Lighted: The Newest Super Bull Dam from the Halo Family

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Help Us choose the World Champion 2024

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Herd reports

Dewgood Holsteins: Decades of Breeding Provides Elite Productions with Jersey-like Components

Herd reports

Everyone Wants to Milk the (Very) Long-lasting Cows from Saetteli Holsteins

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Ladyrose Caught Your Eye: The Unix Daughter Who Can Do It All

Management

Udder health: The small things make a big difference

Herd reports

From Goldsun to Ashton, Athos & Aladdin Genes from Former World Champion Toc-Farm Amyly Continue to Blossom

Sires Report

Startmore Rudolph: Likely the Most Generous Source of Pure Brood Cows in the Breed

Cow Families

Help Us choose the World Champion 2024

Management

Fertility Traits: Different in Each Country but they are Producing Positive Gains

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Unique Holstein Event: The Very First International Online Herd Competition

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Elitest is the Dynamic Nr.3 AI Company in France besides Genes Diffusion and Synetics.

Cow Families

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April 2025

Herd reports

Everyone Wants to Milk the (Very) Long-lasting Cows from Saetteli Holsteins

Dominik Saetteli himself milks about 60-70 Holsteins. ‘That depends on the intensity of sales. Annually we sell more than 40 milking cows. If demand is high, then we ourselves drop...

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April 2025

Cow Families

The Netherlands has two famous Pietje families. Descending from the Woudhoeve Pietjes is Poppe Snow-RC, the maternal great-grandsire of Gywer-RC. The Skalsumer Pietjes provided Skalsumer Sunny Boy, for years the...

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February 2025

Management

Unique Holstein Event: The Very First International Online Herd Competition

Have you ever wondered how the breeding program at your farm stacks up against others from around the world? Here is an opportunity to find out. Holstein International would like...

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