Germany

January 2021

Sires Report

Focus on... January 2021

The selection of high-quality sires who have the A2A2 or BB casein variants has been intensifying for y ears. And indeed, the offer of A2A2 and BB sires has never...

December 2020

Sires Report

Unique HI Overview: Here are the Bestselling Holstein Sires at AI Companies World-wide

Who were the most sold Holstein bulls during the past six months? HI posed this question to breeding companies world-wide. The answers resulted in the unique accompanying overview: 77 bestsellers...

December 2020

Cow Families

Cow Country - December 2020

‘She is the embodiment of what we want to breed! She has good fertility, strong production and has an impressive conformation. Indeed, Jabobina is a real “true type” cow!’ These...

December 2020

Cow Families

Cow Country - December 2020

‘In her best days, Portefolio was the cow that every breeder dreams about. Her conformation, especially when it came to her exceptional udder, was nearly perfect. In addition, she was...

December 2020

Sires Report

Intriguing Sires - December 2020

‘From the outset I want to say – and I admit that I am biased – that we are tremendously enthusiastic about this bull. I told Semex that in the...

December 2020

Cow Families

SHA Grumeti: Source of Outstanding Traits

She is the cow with the highest breeding value in Germany, the dam of the highest male calves as well as that of three other animals that are also the...

December 2020

Sires Report

Intriguing Sires - December 2020

KNS Rendezvous has now more than proven herself as a brood cow. The well-known German Man-O-Man daughter from the offspring of the famous French Jocko daughter Radieuse EX-91 is the...

December 2020

Sires Report

Focus on... December 2020

It is not always the breeding values that explain the popularity of certain sires. There are more characteristics that are important to dairy farmers when selecting bulls, like cow families,...

December 2020

Sires Report

Bull Talk - December 2020

In April, he immediately debuted in the German progeny proven top-5, and in August, he climbed six points, making him the strong German Nr.2: Sinus. ‘His compact, average-statured, and robust...

November 2020

Sires Report

Bull Talk - November 2020

In April 2019, he emerged at the top of Canada’s progeny proven ranking and has not left the Canadian top since: Benner Bardo, bred by the Benner family in Manitoba....

November 2020

Sires Report

Intriguing Sires DP - November 2020

‘Delroy has been popular ever since his youth. More than 180,000 doses of his semen have been sold world-wide, and he is currently one of our most popular progeny proven...

November 2020

Sires Report

Intriguing Sires DNA - November 2020

Proximo is just outside of the German absolute top. Torsten Lenk, sire analyst for Masterrind: ‘Since May, we have been using Proximo as a sire of sons within the NOG...