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June 21, 2017 The Hotspots Summer '17 edition is on print and will send off to their >10.000 subscribers in the 1st week of July. Here you can find already the online version with Hurtgenlea Yoder Modesto as the covergirl, the dam of the #1 Net Merit bull in the World: Hurtgenlea Richard Charl @ NM $ 1099 / GTPI +2944! An article is written about this very interesting cow family, other featured cow families this edition is the family of Carf Emeraude, Col Carmen (the European Cosmopolitan's) and the high type Our-Favorite Unlimited cow family. Just click further for the complete online version.    Read More

June 21, 2017 Westcoast Kerrigan of Semex has been a very popular sire of sons for his different pedigree (Kingboy x Numero Uno) and high GTPI / RZG combination. The world's highest and most interesting daughters of Kerrigan are selling in the Holland Masters Sale on Friday, June 30. in Zwolle, the Netherlands. Including the World's #4 GTPI Kerrigan daughter, two 159 RZG Kerrigan's (huge RZG) and out of the families of Wesswood Rudy Missy, Braedale Gypsy Grand, Willemshoeve Rita and more! Click further for an overview of the Kerrigan's selling in the Holland Masters Sale.    Read More

June 21, 2017 She recently passed away, but she is still admired and well known as one of the greatest cows of her generation: Decrausaz Iron O'Kalibra EX-97-CH - 3 x Swiss Expo - 1 x European & WORLD CHAMPION! She proved herself in the showring and also as a brood cow, her grand dtr O'Kadabra was HM. Champion at the HHH-show '16 and another grand dtr GS Alliance Lotus O'Kiki Red was 1st & Res. Jr. Champion at the 2016 Swiss Expo! One of the greatest opportunities for something straight out of O'Kalibra and for sure the latest opportunity for her embryos is selling in the Holland Masters Sale. Click further for a video and more information.   Read More

June 21, 2017 Another great show result for Panda Holsteins of Molly Westwood (UK) - Brokaw-daughter Panda Black Star Fools Gold won the Interbreed Championship at the Royal Three Counties Show in 2017. The Fools Gold family was very dominant at this show with also winning the Res. Interbreed & Res. Breed Championship and HM. Breed Championship! Click further for more pictures and results of the Panda team!   Read More

June 21, 2017 If you are a Brown Swiss fan, for sure one of the highlights to ever visit is the Kedar Brown Swiss herd from the Lochhead family in Dumfries (UK), one of the most impressive Brown Swiss herds you will find. Kedar is the breeder and owner of multiple National Show winners, including the Grand Champion of the UK Dairy Expo in 2016: Kedar Calving Sanchia Maria VG-89-UK EX-MS (Snickerdoodle family) and Kedar Rhapsody VG-89-UK EX-MS 2yr. Kedar Brown Swiss has always very interesting genetics available for sale, in 2016 heifers were sold through the Vente Drakkar and German Masters Sale.    Read More

June 20, 2017 Dueholm Breeding from Denmark had another successful Midwest Farmshow. The well-known R&W Savard daughter: Dueholm Gabi won the Senior & Grand Champion R&W! Dueholm Satchel Lissie named Intermediate Champion R&W while her herdmates: Dueholm DueBookman Ann won Res. Senior Champion B&W & Dueholm Sanchez Bella with winning Jr. Champion. Dueholm Breeding also took home the Best herdgroup title in R&W classes! Click further for pictures.    Read More

June 20, 2017 Lot 32 in the Holland Masters Sale (30. June 2017 - Zwolle, NL) is a 1st Choice out of 3 live calves by Endco Superhero out of the Top 25 GTPI heifer in Europe: Alh Montross Holly. The results of the 3 heifers just came in, from which PV Hero Halo tops the rankings of the Superhero daughters, being the #3 GTPI Superhero daughter in Europe: 6/17 GTPI +2761 (Prelim.). This lot is offered by PrimeVal Genetics and one of the highest GTPI heifers to be offered in Europe in 2017. Her grand dam is the genomic giant Cookiecutter Ssire Have VG-86-USA 2yr. has  5 daughters in the European Top 15 for GTPI for heifers >9 months old, under which the #1 & #2 heifers! Click further for more information and link to the catalogue.    Read More

June 20, 2017 A daughter group from the bull Godewind RF was shown at the DHV Show in Oldenburg. Godewind is owned by VOST and bred by De Oosterhof Holsteins. Godewind has only 165 daughters in his proof but even then VOST was able to show the most consistent daughter group at this show. There where 8 daughters shown. The mostly deep black dairy 2 year olds where well developed and had enough size, a lot of dairy and unform wide downhill rumps. Feet & legs where clean and well used and his daughtesr were shown top udders as well in functionality as in quality. Godewind was selected by the visitors as the best daughtergroup of the day!   Read More

June 19, 2017 APPLE: The R&W One Milllion Dollar Cow, All-American R&W, Grand Champion R&W Madison, dam and grand dam of HOT sires (Absolute-Red, Armani RC, Big Apple Red, Avalanche, Diamondback & more)! The cow we all know because of her and her clones huge performances in the World's biggest show ring and her incredible transmitting ability. Everybody wants a piece of Apple: Apple's GREATEST selling in the Holland Masters Sale on June the 30. 2017, like her Red Carrier Doorman grand dtr Heatherleigh Doorman Armana E *RC - the tied #1Red Carrier DGV Conformation heifer in the breed (+20 DGV Conf.)!!! And also the highest GTPI *RC heifer in the breed for all heifers selected >3.50 PTAT! An incredible combination. This heifer can win the big shows for you, make the future topselling AI bulls and will create you lots of business!   Read More

June 19, 2017 The #1 RZG Afterburner daughter World Wide is bred by Oosterbrook Holsteins from the Netherlands: Oosterbrook Burning Star with RZG 159, she is the #8 RZG heifer in Germany >9 months old and also one of the highest flush age RZG heifers in the breed without Balisto in her pedigree! She sold to a German / Canadian buyers combination between Nosbisch Holsteins from Germany and Sunview Holsteins from Canada. Burning Star has a very high combination between multiple important indexes like her GTPI and RZG and offers a different pedigree: Afterburner x Chevrolet x Supersonic x Colby x Laudan, from the Hol-Stiens June cow family!   Read More