STEPHAN SCHNEIDER
Focus on... - November 2022
While the genomic top-lists almost everywhere in the world are increasingly populated with high polled sires, high daughter-proven polled bulls continue to be a rare commodity. This is particularly true...
Pischele Holsteins: Singular among the many top addresses in the very north of Italy
Although Italy has a leading role in Europe with more than 1.4 million Holstein cows, the most northern region of the country plays hardly any role this perception. And that,...
Intriguing Sires Polled - October 2022
With Lucius-P, there is a young polled sire in the starting blocks that is interesting for several reasons. We will start with the pedigree of this Bedrock son, who is...
Villstar The Other Top Address in Switzerland
If you are interested in showing and have always associated Switzerland with showing, the title may irritate you. If you carry on reading, it will not be one of these...
Round Table: Is the blockade of sires of sons a problem or a lot of noise about nothing?
Since various breeding programs have begun withholding their own top sires in the early phase of their career from the general population, this type of genetic protectionism has come under...
Francesco Veronese: The challenge is to maintain the identity of Italian genetics
Francesco Veronese has been working for the Italian breeding company Intermizoo for 15 years, the last 9 of which he has served as a sire analyst. And the 40-year-old, who...
Focus on... - October 2022
Actually, the title of this article isn’t quite appropriate, as the four bulls that we present here are not really just simple alternatives from the ever-growing offering of homozygous polled...
Wyss Herta - Rendezvous with a double world record?
We were on our way through Switzerland and our goal were visits to various outstanding farms that we will present to you in coming issues of HI. One goal in...
Impressive consistency: How the Kanu family stands up to the frantic competition in the Wilder barn
When the Colt son Kanu-P celebrated his breakthrough 10 years ago, it was the kickoff of a breeding program that has held the international scene captive ever since. Not many...
Focus on - September 2022
Have you tried before to find a top bull that breeds for above average teat length, corrects close teat placement and delivers acceptable milking ability at the same time? If...
New: Heat tolerance index in Italy
It was an innovation when Australia first released breeding values for heat tolerance in 2017. Since then, not only has it become common knowledge that heat stress negatively influence cows’...
THI Holsteins ‘Genomic stars are not found by chance, you have to breed for them!’
It is the home of the two highest PP sires in Germany, the highest worldwide red factor sire, a top-25 sire in Spain, and many other top sires. It is...