Herd reports
Scientific Holsteins: At the home of the Debutantes, now robots do the milking
Scientific Holsteins of Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, is owned by Matt & Mandy Nunes and family and is identified by Holstein enthusiasts around the globe as the home of the Debutante...
Agrar Auligk – The potential to use superior genetics even more consistently!
Do you remember SHA Rubicon Grumeti VG-85? Just in December past, the dam of Germany’s Nr.1, SHA Foreman, and several other well-placed top sires, she generated enough attention for us...
With Alligator and Chief as the Greatest Ambassadors Stantons: One of the World’s Most Eminent Sire Providers
They are being used world-wide: bulls born in the Stantons herd in Ontario. For many years already. ’He is extremely popular, with high demand from all over the world,’ we...
Loh Lilli Brax EX-95 – the representative of the L-family of the Lohmöllers
With 17 EX cows, Andreas Lohmöller, owner of the splendid 67 cow Loh-An herd in Germany, takes a strong 8th place in our listing of the herds with the most...
Hilrose in Wisconsin: A Herd of Excellence
It requires outstanding management and an aggressive breeding program to earn the Holstein Associations Herd of Excellence award. And symbolic of that excellence in this impressive Wisconsin herd is the...
All Garioni in Italy: Purposeful Construction with Strong Cow Families and Progeny Proven Sires
For the public at large, the Garioni prefix became especially known for the Montross son Garioni Vanhalen, who with more than 6000 daughters now reaches 3579 PFT, 1.80 conformation and...
Demling: Germany’s best production herd… … and the pursuit of the next level
We have long known that he is a very engaged and highly meticulous breeder who, alongside his wife, manages one of the best production herds in Germany. But somehow Ewald...
Silvermaple: ‘We want to breed quality, modern cows that breeders want to buy’
Located about 90 minutes north of Victoria, British Columbia, is Silvermaple Holsteins – owned and operated by the Cuthbert family. While most of Canada is still under a few feet...
Eildon-Tweed Chameleon: A “chameleon” that changes indeed… getting better all the time!
Do you still remember her? This imposing Mogul daughter of Eildon-Tweed Farm in the American state of New York? In 2018, she appeared for the first time in HI, then...
At Stäme Holsteins, the C Family is among the Big Favourites
At the beginning of this century, breeder Jan Bengtsson from the Swedish dairy farm Stäme Holsteins purchased embryos from the well-known Danish breeder Sören Ernst Madsen. The name of the...
Koester Dairy in the US: World Class Production
K-Star is the prefix of one of the leading production herds of the US. Located at Dakota in northern Illinois, an hour south of Madison, it is owned by the...
Dudoc in Canada: Prominent Name in Red-Holsteins and Polled Breeding
Initially it was bulls such as Dudoc Bacculum-Red and Dudoc Mr Burns-RC that brought the Dudoc name to the attention of breeders around the world, especially those with an interest...