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Markwell Blackstar Raven: One of Blackstar’s most respected daughters
Like we quite often do when we tackle articles about monumental cow families – we have to start with an apology… Obviously when a cow family has been so good,...
Cow Country 2 - January 2024
If you glance through the European gTPI rankings you’ll notice a prefix that frequently appears: Cristella. This name belongs to an Italian farm situated near the village of San Daniele...
Cow Country 1 - January 2024
Show participation was not in the cards for Bernard, Steven and Cindy Routhier from Routina Holstein (130 milking cows/2 milking robots) in Quebec in recent years. Nevertheless, their farm, also...
Coolnagree Banker: Ireland’s Impressive Red Family that Started with a £5 Calf!
Seven-year-old Kate O’Leary’s parents Seamus and Bridget stood extremely proud ringside at the Irish National Calf Show. The balanced and correct Red March calf by Rager-Red she was showing with...
Jennifer Wins Biggest UK Dairy Day Ever!
The biggest UK Dairy Day of all-time delivered one of the most impressive line-ups ever witnessed at a British National Show. Two cows that were in the top-3 last year...
Dovea Genetics, Ireland: ‘Many of our bull dams are medium stature, EX cows with >4% protein’
Success in the Irish EBI index rankings, market leader for beef on dairy across Europe and soon to have its own ST sexing lab – there is a lot going...
NoBull Sires: Offering Credible Bulls from Time-Tested Genetics
The idea of NoBull Sires started four years ago. Tired of not being able to find sires from the time-tested dams they wanted, Ben Masemore, Ethan Wentworth and Rusty Herr...
Riverdane: The Farm Four EX-97 Cows Have Called Home!
South Africa, New Zealand, Sweden, the UK, Norway, Denmark, Spain, Belgium, Ireland, Italy, Hungary, the Netherlands… Mark Nutsford’s transatlantic judging appointments speak for themselves. But what do you know about...
Intriguing Sires DP - June 2023
Looking through the rankings for the April proofs there is a name that appears on several lists: Co-Op Endeavor. Not only is he Nr.8 TPI (2986 TPI), he is also...
UK Mahala Family: No Notable AI Bulls, But Some Very Impressive Females!
100,000kg/220,462lb milk cows, multiple generations of EX, high genomics and show-stars – a snapshot of the many reasons why the stalwart UK Mahala family continues to remain so popular… Of...
Olla family: The bloodline behind Ireland’s only living homebred EX-96 cow
No sexed semen, strictly no flushing, yearlings in the barn by F16 Rocket (a sire born in 1983) and a closed herd for nearly 20 years… what gems could possibly...
BullTalk - Febuary 2023
He has a remarkably high conformation index (146) in the DNA tested top of Germany’s Red Holstein list: Feit-Red-P, a son of Freestyle-Red (<Gywer-RC) out of Solitair daughter HWH Ella...