Cow Country

March 2020

Cow Families

Cow Country - March 2020

The 100-cow herd of Darita Holsteins in Indiana, Herd of Excellence in 2018, is the home of a bull-dam who only needed one son to make a name for herself....

February 2020

Cow Families

Cow Country - February 2020

‘She has made all my dreams come true!’ Thomas De Brabander speaks directly from the heart when he talks about Failue de L’Herbagere EX-90. De Brabander has owned the Savard...

February 2020

Cow Families

Cow Country - February 2020

After 45 years of breeding Holsteins, a lifelong goal was achieved for the Lang family of Springhill Farms as their homebred Springhill-OH Wind Jada EX-91 was named Grand Champion of...

January 2020

Cow Families

Cow Country - January 2020

Back in the early 1990s Richard Charles’s family had a non-pedigree, commercial herd. However being a young, enthusiastic Holstein fan, the pedigree world was a new avenue Richard wanted to...

January 2020

Cow Families

Cow Country 2 - January 2020

Jay and Jack Hein had to drive quickly straight through their home state of Ohio, arriving just on time at the sale of Doug Dye. There Jay and son Jack...

December 2019

Cow Families

Cow Country - December 2019

Don Bennink of No-Fla Holsteins in Florida has a clear vision which guides his breeding in his over 10,000 head herd: his ideal cow has a slightly below average size,...

November 2019

Cow Families

Cow Country - November 2019

‘She was my once in a lifetime cow,’ begins Cameron Hickling of the Master Breeder Hicklee herd in Ontario. Hicklee Dundee Glow EX-93 produced over 100,000kg (220,000lb), consistently calved every...

November 2019

Cow Families

Cow Country - November 2019

Standing out on the TPI list of the highest and also the most reliable bulls is View-Home Monterey, who is the only transmitter with >3.00 PTAT. One of the 6466...

October 2019

Cow Families

Cow Country - October 2019

‘The most prominent qualities of this family are capacity and strength. The cows have outstanding frames with tremendous capacity, strength through the loins, and wide rumps. And they are furnished...

October 2019

Cow Families

Cow Country - October 2019

After years of absence, Brent and Kim Mitchell from Victoria immediately captured the Intermediate title with Mitch Aftershock Irene at Australia’s national show (IDW) in 2017. Two years later they...

September 2019

Cow Families

Cow Country - September 2019

Don Mayer in Wisconsin has such confidence in Catamount’s genetics, in three years he would like 75% of his 55-cow Mayerlane herd to be from her family. Every calf born...

August 2019

Cow Families

Cow Country - August 2019

Ladd was the first polled bull used by Casey Jones on his family farm Scenery-View Farm in Pennsylvania. The results are noteworthy; within two generations Scenery-View Crackup (Simplicity-Silver) was bred;...