Management
Popular among Red & White: These are the Most Sold Red Holstein Sires at AI Companies World-wide
From Avatar to Power, Rambo to Mauro, Redalex to Unstopabull, Noah to Rager, Manana to Go Fast and Swingman to Solitair; here are the most sold Red Holstein sires at...
The Value of Index Conversions
Holstein breeding is a truly international industry. Thousands of bulls enter AI studs around the globe every year. How do you know which ones are the best for your breeding...
Dansk Holstein: Continually in Discussion with Farmers about their Wishes
That Denmark recently welcomed the 13-year-old Bojer daughter Frida as an ultra-young 200,000 kg cow is no coincidence. The Danish dairy industry has progressed tremendously. After a tumultuous period, there...
Discover the Highest Type Sires Worldwide
Each proof run HI explores the highest index sires worldwide, but unfortunately we do not always have space and time to investigate who leads for type. Here we embark on...
Polled Gallery - The influential icons behind the best PP sires worldwide
Polled breeding and the goal of bringing the polled segment to the peak of the conventional top lists are among the main tasks that breeding programs around the world are...
Peak: Collaboration of Competitors within the Industry
In North America the heifer programs established by the major bull studs are a core part of the bull breeding industry. Most bull studs now source more than 50% of...
BoD Programs at BBG & ABS Global
The use of beef sires on the bottom end of the herd (Beef-on-Dairy) has become a popular concept on dairy farms. In this series of articles, each month HI will...
Weaning: A Crucial Early Moment During Calf Raising
Raising calves is an indispensable part of dairy farming. HI spoke to four international players with tremendous expertise in this area. They passionately share about how the first days, weeks,...
Calving Ease and Daughter Calving Ability: Two Different Indexes with the Same Goal
Partially thanks to the arrival of genomics, there are fewer and fewer bulls from which the descendants are born with difficulty, or from whom the daughters themselves have a hard...
Beef-on-Dairy in HI: Meet the Leading Suppliers of Quality Beef Bulls
The use of beef bulls on lower genetic merit dairy cows has become a worldwide phenomenon. With continued growth in dairy-beef demand, Holstein International will now feature a series introducing...
Bovec: 50 Years Strong in the French Breeding Market
Bovec began in February 1971: Initially as a consulting firm for larger dairy farms, and since 1974 also an importer and distributor of American Holstein semen in France - first...
Sire Breeding Values For Polled And Red Holsteins Worldwide
The stability and the consistency which the December evaluations showed in almost all leading Holsteins countries rubbed off on the section for polled and red sires. Nonetheless there were several...