May 2024

Sires Report

Focus on... May 2024

Elsewhere in this issue, you find HI’s selection of daughter proven and DNA tested Holsteins and Red Holsteins. This page features three sires that are interesting for both categories: high-indexing...

May 2024

Management

Young Minds, Big Ideas (II): The Enthusiasm of our Young Breeders!

In our March issue of HI we reported on the versatility of our young breeders. Here we would like to present some more very interesting countries and clubs.

May 2024

Herd reports

France’s Famous Conformation Herd La Coumière Continues to Harvest Success

One of the well-known prefixes in the national French show world is Coum: the prefix of the La Coumière dairy enterprise owned by the Varnier family in the northeastern part...

May 2024

Cow Families

Cow Country II - May 2024

The story of Jolana starts in November 2013, when Otto Meinders had a hospital stay in Leer and happened to walk past the sale barn during the first VOST-Select-Sale while...

May 2024

Herd reports

Conant-Acres: Consistently Among the Top Type Herds of the US

Each year the Holstein Association publishes a list of the top BAA herds in the US, the herds with the highest average age-adjusted type classification score. Conant-Acres has consistently ranked...

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