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June 2024
BSG: Wundawerk

In the middle of this month, Besamungsstation Greifenberg (BSG) will open a brand new production and collection barn. The German AI has 40 Fleckvieh bulls and 30 Brown Swiss sires in their current line-up. We asked Katri...

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June 2024
Genostar looks to the future

With the construction of a new facility for semen production and processing at the existing Kagelberg site in Austria, Genostar shows trust in its breeders for its future. This investment will allow breeders to be excite...

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June 2024
The Worldwide Legacy of Mahango-Pp

In recent years, Mahango-Pp has established himself as the leading dual-purpose Fleckvieh sire in the world. With a perfect combination of milk and carcass yield as well as the desired polled trait, he has revolutionized...

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June 2024
GGI-Spermex: Elite, All-round Sires that Meet the Most Modern Requirements

GGI-Spermex represents twelve German AI organization world-wide. The catalogue includes twelve dairy breeds! The largest, after Holstein/Red Holstein, are Fleckvieh, Brown Swiss and Angler. ‘The weeks following each new...

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June 2024
KI Kampen: ‘The Demand for Problem-free Cows Continues to Increase.’

Besides a varied lineup of Holstein and Red Holstein sires, KI Kampen is also focused on the originally Dutch breeds MRIJ (red & white) and FH (black & white). ‘Our MRIJ lineup currently consists of four progeny proven s...

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June 2024
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 bulls out of Parfect daughters, ensure that he will beco...

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May 2024
Expo Bulle 2024 A Sampling of the Many Highlights

‘Even if you were to take the very last cow in each class, then you would still have a group of outstanding cows.’ Yes, there was unanimity in Bulle: the quality of all participants (black and red & white) was at an unpr...

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May 2024
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 significant market share in the Canadian AI industry. We talked...

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May 2024
Bulltalk - May 2024

This Frenchman certainly deserves attention: Polibay from Synetics. He was already one of the leaders and bestsellers of his generation, according to Lea Poncet from Synetics, and is confirming these qualities, now as a...

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May 2024
Cow Country I - May 2024

Scrolling through social media is a phenomenon of our time, with countless contributions being ignored or unconsciously acknowledged, and then there are posts where one has the feeling to scroll back to take a closer loo...

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May 2024
Cow Country II - May 2024

The story of Jolana starts in November 2013, when Otto Meinders had a hospital stay in Leer and happened to walk past the sale barn during the first VOST-Select-Sale while out for some fresh air. A special calf caught hi...

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May 2024
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 and we can expect to see selec...

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May 2024
Erbacres Snapple Shakira: Captures a Second World Title!

Grand Champion World Dairy Expo (US) and Royal Winter Fair (CA). Erbacres Snapple Shakira had excellent cards to win the World Title 2023. While the competition turned out to be very strong, she entirely made good on her...

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May 2024
Young Minds, Big Ideas (II): The Enthusiasm of our Young Breeders!

In our March issue of HI we reported on the versatility of our young breeders. Here we would like to present some more very interesting countries and clubs.

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May 2024
Red Impact Competition 2024!

Since it’s inception 17 years ago, the Red Impact award has been recognizing the main contributors to shaping the impressive progress made by red & white genetics around the world. On the following pages we present the p...

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