The event was generously sponsored by United Feeds. Prices peaked at 8,800gns twice, with 21 bulls selling in a complete clearance to average £4,212 each. Topping trade at 8,800gns each, were the ...

More than 99 percent of Holstein bulls born using artificial insemination in the last decade trace their male lineage to just two bulls born in the 1960s. Efforts to reconstitute two lost male ...

Following the day’s trade, auctioneer Mark Stewart confirmed that 11 bulls changed hands to average £3,914 per head – down £21 on last year’s record average. Sale leader at 5,800gns was the honourable ...

Proper care of newborn calves is always the best choice. If recent phone calls are any indication, the high price of beef apparently has producers re-thinking the value of Holstein bull calves. The ...

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NEW MINDEN, Ill. -- Dairy farmer Henry Finke had hoped a purebred Holstein would produce more calves than the mixed-breed bulls he was accustomed to using. The new bull apparently turned on the ...

Northern Ireland’s Holstein bull show and sale met buoyant trade at Moira, where trade peaked at 8,700gns for supreme champion Ballycrochan Aramis Red ET from Clare Patterson, Bangor, County Down. The ...

A Holstein Friesian that sired more than 17,000 daughters and 90,000 granddaughters has been inducted into a bull ‘Hall of Fame.’ Animal genetics company Livestock Improvement Corporation (LIC) has a ...