2013 Master Breeder Malarky Holsteins Like many other Master Breeders before them, Mark and Mary Ida Donohoe dreamed of one day winning a shield when they set out farming on their own in 1989 and registering with the Malarky prefix in 1991, and with 2 other Master Breeder herds in the family (Donohoe and Donfield), [...]
Bullseye March 2015 Benner Holsteins Ltd: Breeding Brood Cows & Bulls Benner Holsteins Ltd. is a name known far and wide for the cows bred by the Penner family on their Steinbach, Manitoba farm. The farm began 60 years ago when Ben Penner started with 11 cows, and three generations of the family have worked [...]
April 2015 Immunity + Continues Meeting & Exceeding Expectations In 2013, decades of research and hard work in collaboration with the world-reknown University of Guelph in Canada resulted in the launch of Semex’s Immunity+ sires worldwide. “Some cows and cow families just do not get sick,” says Semex CEO Paul Larmer. “They go virtually unnoticed [...]
www.semex.com April 2015 Semex HealthSmart™ Lineup with Feed Efficiency More Valuable Than Ever Semex launched the HealthSmart™ lineup as a way for Semex clients worldwide to quickly identify bulls that would sire the most valuable and profitable cows on the dairy. In December 2014, Feed Efficiency was included, emphasizing moderate-sized cattle that are healthy and [...]
Bullseye May 2015 Genomax Line-up Welcomes Four New Immunity+ Bulls While the number of new additions to the Genomax list is a bit smaller than in recent proof rounds, there is plenty of news just the same. First, from the new recruits from last round; RH Superman is now the top indexing sire available [...]
Bullseye May 2015 Telford Master Breeder: It's a Holstein Hat Trick They say, “Good things come in threes.” For the three J’s of Telford Farms – Jim, Julie and Josh – that reality hit home when they received that special call in early January from Holstein Canada, proclaiming they had earned, won and would be [...]
Bullseye May 2015 Boviteq West: Making a difference As the number of farmers utilizing Boviteq West’s in vitro fertilization increases, so too does the awareness of the vast benefits that this technology can bring to a genetics business. However, what remains unknown to many is the tremendous amount of work that goes on behind-the-scenes to [...]
Bullseye May 2015 Pinkman: Pure Pedigree Power Over the last decade, the Apple cow, a 96 point Regiment daughter that was successfully cloned and won many shows, has dominated the R&W Holstein breed. Long before Apple became the international star of her maternal line though it was known as the August family, and what a [...]
Bullseye May 2015 WestGen Days 2015 - Wrap-up While some companies struggle through tedious Annual General Meetings where attendees are barely able to keep their eyes open, such is far from the case at WestGen! The WestGen AGM, now a multi-day event known as WestGen Days, draws in scores of people from all across Western [...]
Bullseye September 2015 Boviteq West: Two Years and Going Strong... This August was the 2nd anniversary of Boviteq West’s creation, and we’re proud to see the company continuing to flourish as we help more and more people to understand and reap the benefits of our IVF process. Over the past two years, we’ve seen [...]