New Zealand
Cow Country - October 2024
How is this for a progeny list: 52 registered progeny with only one below 3000 gTPI! Kenyon-Hill Gameday Onia GP-83 just never misses. ‘This is a whole new experience for...
Unique Overview The Leading Jersey Herdbooks Worldwide
At a time when the number of dairy farms and the number of dairy cattle worldwide are dropping, the Jersey breed is defying this trend. To give perspective, this overview...
Herds worldwide - July 2024
The Fazenda Analândia enterprise owned by the De Boer family – situated in the Dutch colony of Castrolanda (Castro Parana) in southern Brazil – has 500 Holstein cows and just...
New Zealand’s Mark Townshend: Jerseys are More Production Efficient than Holsteins
‘Jerseys in New Zealand have gone through a period of being unfashionable,’ explains Mark. ‘However, a lot has changed since the 1990s when there were butter surpluses, to today when...
Vote for your Jersey World Champion
Welcome to the exciting first selection of the Jersey World Champion. Twelve of the best Jersey cows from eleven countries are set to compete, spoiling you for choice. Enjoy a...
Meander FMI April: The Perfect Brood Cow for the New Zealand System
The progeny proven Beamer son Meander SB Arrow is an absolute bestseller at the New Zealand breeding company LIC, while full brother Alias is popular at CRV. Among the high...
Cow Country II - January 2023
Eclipse Altitude Princess-Red was first Junior-2 and Intermediate Champion of the Holstein Show at Australia’s International DairyWeek 2022, as well as Intermediate and Grand Champion Red Holstein. ‘I’ve always liked...
BullTalk - November 2022
One of the young and enthusiastic dairy farmers and breeders from Canada, without a doubt, is Tony van Lith. His “Valiant” prefix is quickly gaining recognition, also in part due...
Unique in HI: Farms with the Highest kg/lb Fat + Protein Productions World-wide Part 1
In the Holstein world, high productions always speak to the imagination. Tremendous records of individual animals, but certainly also high averages at the herd level. But how high are the...
Cow Country - August 2022
In 2019, as a teenager, Aloïs Boudry showed the Red Holstein two-year-old EHB Apoll Rosalie for Belgium at the European show in Libramont. Together, that day, they earned a well-deserved...
Round-Table Which Total Performance Index Do You Prefer?
Which total merit index do you use in choosing the bulls for your herd? Which traits do you focus on in particular? Which traits do you put less emphasis on?...
BullTalk - May 2022
‘This will become one of our most influential sires of sons,’ said Jeff Ziegler from Select Sires in the summer of 2021. This statement was confirmed in April. And how!...