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Cow Country - May 2022
When we ask Jonathan Kelso from JK Genetics in Northern Ireland about the qualities of the Marq I family, his answer is clear: ‘Without a doubt: consistency. Consistency in providing...
Go-Farm:Average Daily Production of 38 kg/84 lb and the Source of Nr.1 Sires and Cows
Go-Farm Miura, with 4352 PFT, is the leader of the Italian progeny proven index list, where seven Go-Farm sires are in the top-50. The DNA top-50 even includes nine Go-Farm...
Unique HI Overview: The 58 Most Sold Red Holstein Sires at AI Organizations World-wide
Information from a total of 39 AIs from eleven different countries stand at the foundation of the list of 58 most sold Red Holstein sires for the year 2021. A...
Intriguing Sires Best Sellers 2021 - April 2022
Last year, Adissio-PP was the most sold Holstein sire at Qnetics (partner in Phönix), and that is still the case. ‘Because he is homozygote polled and very all-round. And he...
Unique HI Overview: These are the 92 Most Sold Holstein Sires at AI Companies Worldwide
Who were the most sold Holstein sires in 2021? The answer follows here, in a unique overview with 92 bestsellers from 38 breeding organizations in thirteen different countries. As well...
Intriguing Sires DNA - March 2022
‘Champion has been extremely popular since his debut in May 2021, his semen is being sold to 25 countries world-wide,’ says Mike West from Semex, who names various reasons for...
Intriguing Sires Polled - February 2022
‘He is extremely popular in every market. Especially in Canada and Switzerland, he is being used heavily.’ Speaking is Dave Eastman about Vogue A2P2-PP. The high-indexing PP son of Luster-P...
Mantoño Holstein: Elite Spanish Farm for Conformation and Lifetime Production
A conformation average of more than 89 points, the highest percentage of EX cows in the country, an average lifetime production of 73,000 kg/160,000 lb. and two “Master Breeder” titles:...
Caudumer Holsteins: Breeding Success with Lol Family Thanks to Genomics and Polled
What started with delivering sires like Fun-P-Red in the Netherlands and Batch-P in Germany, received a special sequel last year, especially with the unprecedented international sire of son success of...
Intriguing Sires DP - February 2022
Muri Planet Popsy, as the highest indexing European Holstein cow, enjoyed lots of attention and thus received many breeding opportunities. From out of her shadow, her sister Pepsy is now...
Cow Country I - January 2022
RUW Elite originates from the embryo program at RUW (Phönix) and was born in October 2016 on the farm of Thomas Schäfer (SHS Holsteins). A very fortunate moment, concludes Schäfer...
Cow Family Tournament: Responses from the Breeders
In December’s HI, you discovered the outcome of HI’s Global Cow Family Tournament; Comestar Laurie Sheik became #2 and Snow-N-Denises Dellia #1. On this page you can read the responses...