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March 11, 2015 Only a few days until one of the great international show in Europe, the NIGHT OF THE HOLSTEIN 2015 in Libramont, which will take place on Saturday March the 14th. 228 Holsteins are entered with exhibitors from Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg and the Netherlands! Watch the show catalogue online here! Combine your visit to Libramont with the Roccafarm Open House Sale, more info at www.roccafarmsale.com   Read More

March 11, 2015 Holstein UK announces the winners of its coveted All Britain Awards on Saturday 7 March at the All Britain Awards presentation dinner and dance in Carlisle, held in conjunction with the UK Dairy Expo. Voted on by the Breed Society’s 43-strong National Judges panel, the 2014 winners are a true reflection of the best Holsteins that the UK has to offer. Divided into 10 classes, ranging from Mature Cow to Junior Calf, this year’s competition saw 110 entries compete for the top spots.    Read More

March 11, 2015 The Supersire daughter Rusty 2 from Zwambag Holsteins is one of the highest GTPI flush age heifers in Europe with GTPI +2507, she has a super complete index with >1600 Milk, + for DPR, 6.6 SCE, >2 PTAT and >2500 GTPI!! Rusty 2 goes back on  Whittier-Farms Lead Mae EX-95-USA through a great sire stack with Snowman, Shottle, Titanic and Durham in the pedigree!   Read More

March 11, 2015 The Wesswood Rudy Missy family is one of the most successful bull producing cow families since the introduction of genomics. Especially the Ammon-Peachey Shauna VG-87-USA 2yr., this Planet daughter delivered successful sires like Supersire, Platinum, Headliner, Shaw, Sargeant, Diamond and is grand dam to Silver!  There are almost no cows in Europe with Shauna on the maternal side in the pedigree yet, Twin Genetics has an exclusive and beautiful Halogen daughter from the fresh Numero Uno dtr out of Shauna with GTPI +2481 / PTAT +2.17!   Read More

March 10, 2015 Today was the Canadian GLPI March 2015 run. The #1 European heifer in this list this time is COL Carryline, a GLPI +3684 Supershot out of Col Carmen, a Headliner dtr from Drouner ADJH Freddie Cosmo, followed by Larcrest Cosmopolitan. Carryline is one out of 4 full sisters in the Top 20 GLPI of this run. The Top 25 GLPI of the March 2015 run dominated by Colonia Cows from Germany with 8 heifers in the list!!   Read More

March 10, 2015 JK Eder Mizu *RC has been pictured, she is a Top 15 GTPI RED CARRIER heifer in Europe with >2300 GTPI!! Mizu has a great pedigree for the R&W breed as a daughter of Aikman out of the Hendel Durham Mitzi EX-90-USA cow family! SEXED FEMALE RUBICON embryos with PA GTPI >2500 are selling in the Eurogenes Online Embryo Sale, as well SEXED FEMALE Drama embryos! Click further for more information.    Read More

March 10, 2015 Hul-Stein purchased PG De-Su Stylish at the German Masters Sale, this interesting Balisto dtr come from the successful De-Su Georgia cow family, her dam is the maternal sister to Galaxy, and also bulls like Obersrever, Goli, Watson, 5G and others are from this cow family! She is super complete with GTPI +2436 in the USA, almost 160 RZG in Germany and recently she came back as one of the very highest gNVI heifers World Wide, she scores gNVI +410 with 113 for Conformation!!!    Read More

March 10, 2015 Zandenburg has bred 2 of the highest RZG proven sires in the current German RZG top ranking with the full brothers Pazzini and Paston from the Rinder Allianz, Pazzini is the #4 RZG bull in Germany and #1 Planet son and has already 185 daughters in his index. His full brother Paston has 380 daughters in his proof and is the #5 RZG Planet son. Read an article about this popular duo in the Holstein International March 2015 edition (Page 42 and 43).    Read More

March 10, 2015 Lis-Leck Holsteins is well known as home to several VRC carrying animals, as well they bred the former #1 GTPI Red heifer in Europe Lis-Leck Tiara Red (s. Headliner). Another potential top ranking VRC Red heifer born lately and has a unique pedigree: RED Supershot dtr x Morsan Lis Tretica Red VG-86-LUX 2yr. from the Fools Gold cow family! Watch for her genomics in the upcoming run!    Read More

March 10, 2015 The Drentse Wintershow held last Saturday in Pesse (The Netherlands) judged by the English judge Ben Yates, ben tapped the Million dtr Giessen Charity 44 as his Grand Champion of the day. Charity was the HM Intermediate Champion of the HHH show 2014 and beated the Grand Champion of the HHH show Marie 356 which became Reserve Champion. Great results as well for Hullcrest Holsteins with I-Cow Aurora (Gold Chip x BVK Atwood Arianna) winning the Calf Class and Scholten Dairies winning the Heifer Class with Fradon Delicious (Goldwyn x Durham x Chief Adeen)!   Read More