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August 2019
Bull Talk - August 2019

We already wrote about it: Salvatore continues to be a high calibre sire of sons and is still delivering remarkable sons. New in his top-5 of the very best sons is DG-OH Doble RC, out of a daughter of another top bull: R...

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August 2019
Sibéria Holsteins: “Hot” Red-Holstein Genetics at One of the Coldest Locations in Switzerland

We couldn’t have found a more ideal herd for our Red Review issue: Or a much better herd either. Do you know a dairy farm in your neighborhood where exclusively red-and-white Holsteins are milked? And in addition a herd...

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August 2019
Pheasant-Echos: Following the Red-Holstein Tanbark Trail

Through an intensive ET programme, the American Pheasant-Echos herd continues to build a solid type foundation. So far, this strategy has earned them a World Dairy Expo Grand Champion… Here we find out more!

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August 2019
Here is #5 of the most influential breeders of the past 25 years! Ferme Jacobs

Some top breeders garner a lot of respect for the influential bulls that they have bred and that have left their stamp globally. Such as Sandy-Valley, who appeared in HI last month. Other breeders gain a lot of respect t...

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August 2019
Longer rather than shorter calving interval - How breeding goal is becoming a topic of conversation

For generations the breed has been working to reduce calving interval length. The quicker a cow becomes pregnant again, the better the economics. There is a global consensus on this point. But is this breeding goal still...

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August 2019
Daughter Proven Red Holstein Bulls: Using the Sparse Elite to the Maximum

In the article “The Background and Future of the Most Significant Red Holstein Populations” in HI’s Red Review issue 08/2018, the decreasing number of Red Holstein inseminations in the Netherlands was noted. The cause? F...

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August 2019
Intelligent Barns: What Does the Future Look Like?

The topic of “intelligent barns” flags up many questions. With milk price struggling, is the investment worth it? How will automated technology affect my workforce? Where is the “intelligent” market heading? In this arti...

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July 2019
Gastlosen Integral Laylani and a dream story

The truth of the matter is that we would like to use as few words as possible for this story to maximize the focus on the picture that our photographer Christine Massfeller took of Gastlosen Integral Laylani in her Swiss...

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July 2019
Idee Goldwyn Lucia: Lustre Family Shines Again

Idee Lustre was Grand Champion at the Royal in 2002, and in the almost 20 years since, this family has never been far from the news. The latest accolade was the naming of Idee Goldwyn Lucia – dam of the 2017 Royal Interm...

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July 2019
The family behind GAH Olga des Grilles, Europe’s record seller!

Tuesday February 26, 2019 was a historical day in France. Indeed, a very special heifer was sold during the Paris Dairy Sale at Simagena and registered a new European record for a public sale at €130.000! What kind of co...

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August 2017
Océanie: One of Europe’s Premier Red families

Production, longevity and type: It is hard to find a breeder who isn’t interested in at least one of these traits – and it is even harder to find a cow family that can excel in all three… Introducing the La Waebera Glaci...

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July 2019
Cow Country - July 2019

With 2111 TPI, Niclo O-Man Debbie VG-87 (born 2004) is one of the very highest American index cows from her birth year. The O-Man owned by the Nichols and Longshore families in South Carolina intrigues as the grand-dam o...

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July 2019
Cow Country - July 2019

After their herd dispersal sale in April, the only milking cows the Irish Sinnott family kept were their homebred dam and daughter pair – Ballyboy Goldwyn Carmen VG and Sid Carmen VG-88-3yr. The Carmens symbolise the Bal...

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July 2019
Intriguing Sires - Balic & Bandicoot & Duke

‘Our dairy farmers appreciate Balic and are using him again as a progeny proven bull,’ states Mathias Poferl from Rinderzucht Baden-Württemberg (RBW). ‘Also in his DNA period, Balic was already very popular, so that ther...

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July 2019
Focus on.. Eyecatcher

The breeding values for conformation are among the best the breed has to offer, but that is not the reason why we are presenting these four bulls. The quality of this quartet is not based on numbers but on the feedback f...

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