February 2023

Hannan Farm in Ireland: Lisnalty Heidi as a Model of Conformation, Production, and Fertility

In HI’s overview of the highest production farms world-wide (HI 9/2022), Lisnalty Holsteins occupied an impressive second place for Ireland. With 36 EX and 123 VG scores, Paul Hannan is also one of the best conformation...

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Get Familiar with the Herd Karnview: You are Going to Hear Much More from Them!

The year 2022 saw the Karnview herd gain considerable prominence in Holstein circles. A successful sale in the spring was followed by a stellar show season. Exhibiting at the World Dairy Expo for the first time, Karnview...

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Heerenbrink Holsteins: Breeders of Red and Black & Whites Deliver a Unique Performance in the Dutch Show Ring

At the HHH Show 2022, the Steegink family from Okkenbroek (Heerenbrink Holsteins) provided an achievement never seen before at the national level in the Netherlands. With Heerenbrink Angelina and Heerenbrink Truus 4, the...

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Intriguing Sires DP - February 2023

‘The Holstein breed needs these types of bulls: Complete sires with a solid pedigree, that confirm their qualities progeny-proven: Sires that transmit good rump structure and strong feet & legs.’ Speaking is Francesco Ve...

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Morningview Kingboy Notably Influential Thanks to Outstanding Conformation

Who is the most prominent Holstein sire of the last ten years? Despite various appealing sons, including Woodcrest King Doc, Morningview Mcc Kingboy is likely not everyone’s favourite. But take note! Besides the global s...

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Focus on... February 2023

There is a certain tradition whereby we bring attention to outstanding RC sires that are among the best available internationally in this segment in the February issue of HI, two months after the December evaluations. Wi...

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Father, son and grandson Three generations and three special but rather unique stories

The idea for this picture came from the RUW and was not originally meant to be published in HI at some point. However, when our photographer Christine Massfeller came back with the picture of the daughter-proven German N...

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Intriguing Sires Red & Polled - February 2023

It is not the first time that the Shaggy branch, which has been developed in the Kra-Ho barn in the Czech Republic and goes back to Gen-I-Beq Goldwyn Secret, delivers outstanding results. First came the debut of Bord-P-R...

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Intriguing Sires DNA - February 2023

Rubble should sire medium sized cows with well-attached, high-quality udders, high components and trouble-free performance. This Conway son traces back to the Sandy-Valley Sapphire family that produced such bulls as Rubi...

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BullTalk - Febuary 2023

He has a remarkably high conformation index (146) in the DNA tested top of Germany’s Red Holstein list: Feit-Red-P, a son of Freestyle-Red (<Gywer-RC) out of Solitair daughter HWH Ella VG-85, followed by a VG-85 daughter...

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Cow Country I - February

Hil-Port Dream On (4.14 gPTAT/2704 gTPI) is one of the most talented Holsteins in the US. The Parfect daughter (13 months old) was bred by George Costa Jr, a Californian breeder with a mission. Costa is part of the manag...

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Afra: Luxemburg’s Source for High Lifetime Production

For decades, Luxemburg’s breeders have been known to like investing in good genetics from around the world to infuse new bloodlines into their herds. Pascal Vaessen has also made several purposeful purchases over the las...

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De-Su Delta 4900 Increasingly Influential at DeNovo Genetics and ABS

De-Su Frazz Tahiti (2986 TPI) in the top-5, Denovo 2705 Venture (2941 TPI) Nr. 9 and Denovo 14744 Ginetta (2898 TPI) in 17th place. With three sons in America’s progeny proven top-20, De-Su Delta 4900 VG-88 is proving he...

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The next chapter of the Roxy story Gloryland-I Goldwyn Locket

Glenridge Citation Roxy was born almost 55 years ago on April 15th, 1968. Her influence on the breed has been gigantic, to the point that she has been respectfully recognized as “Queen of the Breed.” It is remarkable how...

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Meander FMI April: The Perfect Brood Cow for the New Zealand System

The progeny proven Beamer son Meander SB Arrow is an absolute bestseller at the New Zealand breeding company LIC, while full brother Alias is popular at CRV. Among the high DNA sires are various half-brothers of Arrow an...

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Cow Country III - February 2023

The full brothers MB Luckylady Bullseye (+857lb milk, 3.31 gPTAT, 2523 gTPI, at Semex; 08/2022) and Eye Candy (+301lb milk, 3.28 gPTAT, 2552 gTPI, at Select) are two of the hottest young bulls in the breed at present. Th...

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Cow Country III - February 2023

Chris Booth is a veterinarian from Plymouth, Wisconsin, who together with his wife Courtney and their 4 children have a hobby farm and own 15 Holsteins, mostly Red-Holsteins. Any milking animals are housed close by at Ma...

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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 increase in production and improvement f...

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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, thanks to no less than 40.2% of the vo...

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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 Madison Champion Oakfield Solomon Footloose and the Roy...

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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 looking at the English-speaking countries! Wou...

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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 years already brothers Jan and...

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