Sires Report
Intriguing Sires Best Sellers 2021 - April 2022
Last year, Adissio-PP was the most sold Holstein sire at Qnetics (partner in Phönix), and that is still the case. ‘Because he is homozygote polled and very all-round. And he...
DG Charley Received Many Opportunities as a Sire of Sons and Used Them Optimally
One of the most notable transmitters from the beginning of the DNA revolution was undoubtedly Cogent Supershot. He made global news with his sky high TPI index and his high...
BullTalk - March 2022
One of the remarkable millionaires in the world is Mainstream Manifold, a bull that no one initially expected would become a millionaire. However, he actually developed into one of the...
Intriguing Sires DNA - March 2022
‘Champion has been extremely popular since his debut in May 2021, his semen is being sold to 25 countries world-wide,’ says Mike West from Semex, who names various reasons for...
Focus On... March 2022
After we presented several interesting RC newcomers in our February issue, we would now like to take a look at some special talents from the homozygous polled segment. We will...
Emprise Bell Elton: One of the Foundations of King Doc and the Holstein Breed
Prominent in this March edition of Holstein International is King Doc. His pedigree brings us immediately to one of the main players from the years around the turn of the...
Intriguing Sires DP - March 2022
‘Capital is a good example of how diverse the market for genetics is. The demands of dairy farmers for a good bull are not always oriented around the same profile...
The Ultimate Male “Personification” of the Roxy Genes: Woodcrest King Doc
‘He is extremely popular,’ reported Rick VerBeek in 2018 about the then 3-year-old sire Woodcrest King Doc. Absolutely nothing has changed, confirms Verbeek’s colleague Jeff Ziegler today. Every dose that...
Intriguing Sires Polled - February 2022
‘He is extremely popular in every market. Especially in Canada and Switzerland, he is being used heavily.’ Speaking is Dave Eastman about Vogue A2P2-PP. The high-indexing PP son of Luster-P...
Pine-Tree-I Pursuit: Another Bull from the Rudy Missy’s Surges to the Top
Supersire, Mogul and Balisto: Three of the most influential sires worldwide over the past decade, and they all trace to the great Rudy Missy family. Now there is a new...
Focus on... February 2022
There is a certain tradition by which we present a selection of outstanding red-carrier sires in our “Focus On” column between the respective evaluation periods. These are sires that not...
Snow-N-Denises Dellia: A Candidate for the next “Queen of the Breed”
She bred an historic bull in Durham and millionaires like Die-Hard, Million and Altiota. Among her heirs are exceptional breeding cows like Sandy-Valley Plane Sapphire and Meadows-LLC BWM Dancia, global...