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December 13, 2016 Willemshoeve Holsteins from the de Jong family from Buren (the Netherlands) has been named Breeder of the Year 2016 in the Netherlands. The HHH show last Saturday have been very successful for de Willemshoeve Holsteins with the Res. Intermediate Championship for the Danillo daughter Willemshoeve Rita 9863. 2016 has been a great year for the farm which is famous for their homebred Rita cow family, a family which has currently 3 sons in the current Dutch gNVI Top 25 for bulls with the Snowman son Browning on the 2nd place with gNVI +315 and 117 type, also in the Top 25 are the bulls Universe and the huge production sire White Moon.   Read More

December 12, 2016 A tremendous National HHH Show for Bons Holsteins last weekend with winning 8 Championships in the Black & White show, including winning the Grand & Reserve Grand Championships with Bons Holsteins Koba 191 (s. Jasper) & Bons Holsteins Ella 186 (s. Laurin). Also in the Red & White classes Bons Holsteins has great success with winning Reserve Grand Champion with Bons Holsteins Aaltje 94 (s. Talent). Click further for pictures and complete results of the National HHH Show 2016.   Read More

December 8, 2016 BTS-Avea Red VG-87 VG-89-MS 2yr. belongs to the finest R&W cows in the breed, she won shows, has incredible progeny and has a dream pedigree. Avea is the grand dam of the #1 RZG, #1 gNVI & #1 GTPI R&W heifer in Europe (08/16), has 4 dtrs and grand dtrs in the Top 25 R&W in Europe (08/16) and in the recent Swiss index run she delivers 2 sons in the R&W ISET Top 10 for bulls: RH DG ADAM Red and DG RH ALPHMAN Red! Click further for more information. Note: Avea has FEMALE Doorman embryos available - info.   Read More

December 7, 2016 Richmond-FD Troy Bub is the new #1 gNVI bull in the Netherlands (list of bulls with a Dutch AI-code), he has gNVI +364 with 108 for Conformation. Bouw Finder (bred by Bouw Holsteins) is the #2 sire in this list. DG Charley (gNVI +353) came strong in the Top of the gNVI list and is one of the highest available gNVI sires in the Netherlands, he sires +1775 kg milk, combined with +835 for longevity, 110 for udderhealth and has 108 for udders! DG Kingboy Sniper is the #1 Kingboy son with +344 gNVI, 114 udders and 111 total type! The #1 daughter proven B&W sire is De-Su Rookie 11057, a Bookem son with +352 NVI. Click further for all rankings.   Read More

December 7, 2016 The Italian bull indexes are published with Hotline as the new #1 gPFT sire with +4346 followed by DG Charley (gPFT +4242). Amighetti Magnificio is the #1 daughter proven PFT sire in Italy with PFT +2909. Click further for the complete rankings.   Read More

December 6, 2016 Bacon-Hill Montross is the #1 daughter proven TPI bull in the history with TPI +2771!  More and more daughters in the index of the former #1 bull Seagull-Bay Supersire keeps him on a very strong position, he is the current #2 daughter proven TPI sire (+2664). New with daughter proven index is Kingboy which debute on the 10th place with a very strong TPI +2556! Montross his son Jedi is the new #1 GTPI sire in the breed for bulls with a NAAB code and >11 months old: GTPI +2891! The new #1 PTAT bull (>11 months old and with NAAB code) has +4.40 PTAT! Click further for all rankings from the USA!   Read More

December 6, 2016 The Canadian's has published the bull indexes from the December run today - the #1 GLPI bull (>11 months old) is Progenesis Cranberry with GLPI +3573, the highest GLPI bull born in Europe in the list is Ko-Gen Tarzan from AI Total with GLPI +3405, he is as well one of the highest Conformation sires in the top GLPI ranking with +15!! Mayflower is the #1 daughter proven LPI bull with +3376, followed by Montross (LPI +3350). Doorman and Control keep the leading positions in the Canadian Conformation ranking for domestic bulls. Click further for all Canadian rankings.   Read More

December 6, 2016 Westcoast Perseus is the #1 gPLI bull in the Great Brittain index system with gPLI +779, followed by Topshot and Argo. DG Charley still ranks in the top and keeps up his numbers very well with currently +727 gPLI. Kings-Ransom Erdman is the #1 daughter proven PLI sire with PLI +659. Click further for the PLI & Type rankings from Great Brittain.   Read More

December 6, 2016 It's proof day! The German herdbook DHV / VIT just published the RZG rankings for bulls, the Canadian Doorsopen son Gymnast is the #1 RZG bull with 166, followed by Cicero (bred by KNS Holsteins) and Mr. Puma of AI Total with RZG 164. Mayflower is the #1 daughter proven RZG bull with 163 RZG and a great jump for Montross increased up to 158 RZG with 210 daughters in his index. The #1 R&W RZG bull is the Pat-Red son Pace red of the RUW with 166 RZG, he comes from the KHW Goldwyn Aiko cow family. Click further for all rankings.   Read More

December 5, 2016 Holbra Hillie 20 is a great cow representing the Holbra breeding philosophy, both her sire (Holbra Alta Spot - from the Prudence family) and her mother line are bred by Holbra Holsteins.  Hillie is the ideal barn cow, scoring EX-90 with an EX-92 udder, currently in her 6th lactation projected at 12.581 kg milk with 4.92% Fat and 3.92% PROTEIN, with already over 70.000 kg milk lifetime.   Read More