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Prominent name from the Holstein industry is preparing for the future: Next Generation at Browndale
With its shiny new state-of-the-art dairy barn complete with sand-bedded free-stalls for the 100-cow herd, 2 milking robots, an on-farm produce store, elevated viewing area and function rooms, Browndale is...
Whiteleather in Ohio Source of Deep, Home-bred Cow Families
The name Whiteleather has been part of the Holstein scene in Ohio for generations. In 2021 this herd had a cow set a new national production record for amount of...
Beef-On-Dairy: Semex Breeds a Nr.1 Indexing Beef Bull from Their Internal Program
Semex offers it’s popular Elevate genomic testing program to help dairy producers choose the females to breed with sexed semen to produce herd replacements, diverting other females to be bred...
Intriguings Sires DNA - March 2023
Sitting at Nr.5 in Germany is the high component bull Nexo, a son of Nexus (<AltaCabot). Nexo traces back to the family of Markwell Blackstar Raven EX-95. The grand-dam Peak...
Intriguing Sires DNA - February 2023
Rubble should sire medium sized cows with well-attached, high-quality udders, high components and trouble-free performance. This Conway son traces back to the Sandy-Valley Sapphire family that produced such bulls as...
The Global Cow Winner for 2022 is… Blondin Goldwyn Subliminal
She was the clear choice for number one by the voting public, Blondin Goldwyn Subliminal. And both the official judges included her in their placings too, with the combined points...
Why Don’t we Have Greater Uniformity Among Fitness Traits Around the World?
Productive Life, Herd Life, Lifespan, Survival – it seems almost every country uses a different name. Who knew there were so many ways to refer to longevity; and that’s just...
Get Familiar with the Herd Karnview: You are Going to Hear Much More from Them!
The year 2022 saw the Karnview herd gain considerable prominence in Holstein circles. A successful sale in the spring was followed by a stellar show season. Exhibiting at the World...
Cow Country III - February 2023
The full brothers MB Luckylady Bullseye (+857lb milk, 3.31 gPTAT, 2523 gTPI, at Semex; 08/2022) and Eye Candy (+301lb milk, 3.28 gPTAT, 2552 gTPI, at Select) are two of the...
Unstopabull: The Sire of Champions
There are many high type bulls that make a lot of nice cows without ever producing a true champion: Unstopabull is not one of those! Although his proof of 2573...
The Value of Looking at the Actual Production Averages for Daughters of Bulls
Daughter production records – after adjustment for all the factors that might bias that data – are used to generate the genetic evaluation a bull receives. A reader of Holstein...
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...