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Like many people in agriculture, I was quickly sucked into the television series “Yellowstone” starring Kevin Costner as John Dutton, the patriarch of a large ranching family. Dutton, a rancher […]

This article was featured in our 2020 Spring issue and is written by Julie Ashton.  Caron, Saskatchewan, home to Benbie Holsteins … 660 km from Calgary,AB, 1580 km from Chilliwack,

This article was from our Spring 2020 issue and is written by Mikayla Overholt. Deep in the rolling hills of Holmes County, OH, lies Springhill Dairy, home of the Lang

This article was featured in our Spring 2020 issue and is written by Julie Ashton.  Excellent-97 is an achievement that few cows achieve in their lifetime. And for the first

This article was featured in our February 2020 issue and was written by Kathleen O’Keefe.  Like everyone else who has even a passing interest in purebred dairy cattle, we were

This article was featured in our February 2020 issue and was written by Kathleen O’Keefe. We all know a variation on the quote, “I’m an overnight success, but it took

This article was featured in our February issue and was written by Julie Ashton. Take an All-American, add seven generations of Excellent dams along with a dash of AI stud

This article was featured in our February 2020 issue and was written by Kathleen O’Keefe. If you watched the International Junior Holstein Show at Madison last fall, you couldn’t miss

This article was featured in our 2019 Winter issue, written by Julie Ashton. 2019 has been a year that many farmers would like to put behind them. Historic snow amounts

Featured in our 2019 Winter issue, written By Todd Bilby, Ph.D., M.S., Associate Director of Ruminant Technical Services, Merck Animal Health. Outstanding milk quality herds, regardless of size, have several

Kozak Holsteins was featured in our Winter 2019 issue, written by Kathleen O’Keefe. ‘The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it.’ That’s a

Our ‘Expo Champions at Home,’ was featured in our 2019 Fall Special. We’ve all seen the World Dairy Expo champions from this year looking their best, but what are they

This article was featured in our 2019 Fall Special and was written by Kathleen O’Keefe. In our Fall issue, we published a story about the 20th generation Excellent Holstein, and

This article was featured in our 2019 Fall Special and is written by John Champagne, DVM, MPVM, Ruminant Technical Services Manager, Merck Animal Health Preventing a problem before it starts

By H. Duane Norman, Kristen Parker Gaddis and Laura Jensen Jersey breeders will receive genetic evaluations to strengthen cows’ resistance to health disorders in April 2020. These evaluations from the