Management
Pro Caseus: Selecting for Milk with Better Cheese-Making Properties
Cheese production is big business in Italy. And when it comes to the production of quality cheese, cow’s milk is not all the same. Now one Italian AI company has...
How Closely are You Looking at Milking Speed?
Milking speed: Is it a trait that could impact the profitability of your herd? Here we look more closely at this management trait to see how it is evaluated and...
Discover Australia’s Top Star Brood Cows
From the Elmar Jessicas to Fairvale’s Bonnie family, Australia is renowned for its top Holstein families. However a performance indicator in terms of breeding is the Star Brood Cow system....
Beef-on-Dairy Programs: Natural & LIC
The surge in use of beef bulls on lower genetic merit dairy cows continues to grow, and part of the evolution in this market is the use of male sexed...
Irish Herdbook has Sights Set on a Sustainable Future
Currently dairy farming in Ireland is hot property. In December 2020 over 1.5 million milking dairy cows were recorded in Ireland (an increase of 2.1% on the year before), whilst...
Will Selecting for Rump Improve Fertility and Calving-Ease?
Correct rump structure has long been considered an important part of the frame of a cow – often being linked to her fertility, her ease of giving birth, and to...
Responses to question: Why do Outcross Sires not Receive More Opportunities?
’Why have AI companies not made more intensive use of outcross sires?’ This is one of the questions sent to HI by the Czech herd manager Jiří Fangl. Questions that...
Cow Comfort - Important Key to Success on Modern Dairy Farms
Cow comfort. In addition to various aspects around breeding, this is a frequently occurring theme in HI’s breeder’s reports. The more comfortable cows are in their environment, the better the...
Beef-on-Dairy Programs: Aberekin & Genex
The surge in use of beef bulls on lower genetic merit dairy cows continues to grow, and part of the evolution in this market is the use of male sexed...
Feed Efficiency – The most important project for Holstein breeding in the coming years
In April 2015, Australia was the first country in the world that published a breeding value for feed efficiency. The Netherlands followed in December 2020, and since April the USA...
Beef-on-Dairy Programs at: Semex & Superblu
The surge in use of beef bulls on lower genetic merit dairy cows continues to grow, and part of the evolution in this market is the use of male sexed...
Get Acquainted with Herdbooks Worldwide: South Africa Holstein
South Africa has among the largest average herd size of any country worldwide. Of all animals registered by South Africa Holstein, 97% are the result of imported semen, producing a...