Management
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...
Why are people losing interest in genetics? Genetic Income Opportunities
Since the breakthrough of genomics in 2008, the situation in the breeding industry has clearly changed. Our regular guest writer, An American Dairyman, is taking a look at it and...
Beef-on-Dairy Programs at VikingGenetics & Cogent
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...
Mark Comfort: Allowing Great Sires to Go Everywhere
Many of you will know at least one of Mark Comfort’s businesses – like “Udder Comfort”, “Comfort Holsteins”, or his former semen distribution company “Transfer Genetics”. Responsible for reshaping semen...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...