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May 12, 2017 Holbra Holsteins of the Holmer-family (Laren, The Netherlands) is the winner of the Agroscoop-troffee 2017 (By For Farmers) in the sector dairy farming. Reason from the judge was the highest production per cow and a great efficiency. The average year production in the Holbra herd in 2016 was 12.815 kg milk with 3.94% fat and 3.40% protein, average 41,5 kg milk / cow / day was the highest production of all Agroscoop participants. This great achievement is reached by a high genetic level and super management, the Holbra-herd has a wide variety of the best global cow families, like that of Golden-Oaks Prudence, Larcrest Cosmopolitan, Wesswood Rudy Missy, Henkeseen Hillary and many others! Click further for a movie and more information.    Read More

May 11, 2017 Col Brylan of Genesland, Germany (Partnership between Diamond Genetics & Colonia Cows) is the #1 TYPE heifer in Europe with PTAT +4.07, she is a daughter of Crush (not available in Europe) and her grand dam is the full sister to the popular sire Byway! Another member of the Barbie family is the #1 PTAT heifer (>9 months old), it's the Beemer daughter Huhne Cremona of Canadian Cattle Club with +3.99 PTAT. Sarlott 3 (s. Doorman) from C. Szell from Hungary is the #1 PTAT cow in Europe (PTAT +3.72)! Click furhter for all PTAT TYPE rankings from Europe!   Read More

May 11, 2017 Six tremendous show cows from North America and Europe have been selected in the ShowSpots Spring 2017 edition. Vote for your favorite show cow now through the new voting form here! Voting goes until May 24th and the most POPULAR show cow will be published in the Summer 2017 Hotspots edition.    Read More

May 11, 2017 "Panda progress driven by passion" is the header of the article about Panda Holsteins of Molly Westwood in the Farmers Guardian Insight. Click furhter to read the complete article about this great herd based in Devon, UK and for their Eurogenes herd profile.   Read More

May 10, 2017 There are only 2 heifers in the World which bred 2 daughters > 1000 $ NET MERIT, one of them is Ms DG-TM Delta Blake, bred & owned by Diamond Genetics & partners, that out of only 4 tested daughters til date! Blake's Charley daughter MS DG-TM Charley Boston is the #1 GTPI Charley daughter in the breed (GTPI +2834) and the #9 Net Merit heifer World Wide (NM $ 1018)! Her Modesty sister MS DG-TM Modesty Breeze is one of the highest GTPI heifers in the breed: 5/17 GTPI +2875 / NM $ 1007, combining +2238 Milk / +93 Fat / +66 Protein / +2.8 DPR / +9 PL and +2.26 PTAT!! Blake is a daughter of Delta, the #1 daughter proven TPI sire World Wide and goes back on the All-American & All-Canadian Rainyridge Talent Barbara EX-95-USA.    Read More

May 10, 2017 One of the top ranking PTAT heifers in Europe is WI Beemer Felli, owned by ARGH Holsteins which they purchased through the German Masters Sale 2016, Felli has +3.61 PTAT and has +18 DGV Conformation in the Canadian system. She is a Beemer out of a Delta going back on Quality Astre Felic EX-95 - sister to dam is the Top 5 Swiss Expo cow GHH Goldwyn Frency. Click further for her picture!   Read More

May 10, 2017 The European GTPI rankings by age are online on Eurogenes following the official April '17 index run with De Volmer Sabine as the #1 GTPI calf in Europe at GTPI +2872. Click further for the European Top 50 GTPI for calves (<9 months old), heifers (9-24 months old) and cows (>2 years old).    Read More

May 8, 2017 Choose your favorite McCUTCHEN daughter from the contest published in the Spring 2017 edition of Hotspots. Thirteen tremendous McCUTCHEN daughters from all around the world and owned by Eurogenes and Holstein Plaza members have been selected and the winner will be published in the Summer 2017 edition and voting ends May 24.   Read More

May 8, 2017 The reigning National Champion of Austria is Artes Regale of Rupert Wenger (Schönhof Holsteins, Austria) and Wiesenfeld Holsteins (Martin Rübesam, Germany). Click further for the brand new proffesional picture of this incredible cow from the ROXY cow family!    Read More

May 5, 2017 Embryos are available in the Eurogenes Online Embryo Sale sired by Pine-Tree Splendid *RC *P, the #1 POLLED & RED CARRIER bull in the breed (GTPI +2607 / PTAT +2.90) and he is NOT AVAILABLE in Europe with semen! These embryos are from the #1 GTPI R&W cow in the breed: Snowbiz Sympatico Sofia-Red VG-85-USA 2yr. - she is dam to the #5 GTPI RED CARRIER heifer in the breed and to the heavily used sire of sons Mr. SALVATORE *RC of Jetstream Genetics! Click further for more information about this special embryo combination.    Read More