February 2023

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...

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...

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...

‘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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...