Brown Swiss
Random-Luck Farm: A True Premier Breeder Herd
Breeding outstanding type animals that can consistently compete with the best in the show ring and bring home the Premier Breeder award takes a special talent. At Random-Luck Farm in...
Andreas Hörmann, breeder of Canyon & Volker: Brown Swiss power with 66,000kg/145,200lb production at culling
If there are two daughter-proven sires in service from a farm and the dams of each still look good, it is really something special. Andreas and Maria Hörmann bred Canyon...
A French sire is the darling of AI studs The big analysis of breeding for AI
No sire has put more sons into AI service internationally in recent years than O’Malley: every twentieth AI sire from the birth year 2019 onwards, worldwide, is a son of...
Brice-ET: Line Breeding to Perfection
April 2023. His breeder, Marc Schertenleib, combined his successful “B” family even several times in Brice’s pedigree.
Austrian Genostar Aims for an Economical and Modern Dairy Cow
With the merger of smaller organizations in Steiermark and Niederösterreich, Genostar was established in 2009, thus becoming the largest AI company in Austria. The most prominent breeds in Genostar’s working...
Bosgoed in the Netherlands: Three Decades of Consistent Crossbreeding with Holstein-Jersey-Brown Swiss
Brown Swiss, Jersey, Fleckvieh, Montbéliarde; the use of “Dairy Breeds” on Holsteins is taking place in a variety of forms in the Netherlands. The Bosgoed family in Denekamp, close to...
New Generation Genetics: Passionate Stewards of the Brown Swiss Breed
It was the year that Holstein International started, 1994, the same year that a new name in the Brown Swiss world appeared on the scene: New Generation Genetics. That was...
GGI-Spermex & Genetics Australia
‘GGI-Spermex is the leading export organization for Fleckvieh and Brown Swiss world-wide,’ says Martin Wimmer from GGI-Spermex. ‘The fact that Germany has the largest Fleckvieh and Brown Swiss populations, and...
Brown Swiss Level in France Displays Significant Increase!
Of course, France is known for breeds like Holstein and Normande. And, of course, the numerous beef breeds. But did you know that France is also becoming an increasingly bigger...
Bosgoed: Holstein, Jersey & Brown Swiss
This splendid, colourful photograph in the eastern Netherlands was taken by Han Hopman of dam Bosgoed Gre 241 and her son Bosgoed Black Pete (<Aurora Jeroen; Holstein). So far, the...
Sinatra: They persist superbly
The Seasidebloom son Sinatra of Genostar has proved himself with >1,100 daughters in milk. Particularly for fitness it looks good, with persistency, udder health and fertility being plus points.
The goal is a problem-free cow
The family of Georg Schedel of Egg in the Unterallgäu district in Germany milks around 200 cows, most of them Brown Swiss. Important is the strong family bond – and...