Aug. 4 2025
Holstein Association USA's annual delegate election process is now underway. Each year, members can nominate fellow members from their state to serve as voting delegates at the Association’s Annual...
July 31 2025
Supply and demand may dictate markets, but stepping back to discern before following the crowd might be your best move when considering a dairy-beef calf purchase
July 24 2025
When genetic evaluations are released on August 12, 2025, Holstein breeders will have a new selection trait to use and predicted transmitting abilities (PTAs) for calving traits will look a little bit...
July 23 2025
EmGenisys, a pioneering animal health company leveraging artificial intelligence to evaluate embryo health in real-time, today announced the successful close of an oversubscribed $1.5 million seed financing...
July 23 2025
A newly published study from Zoetis and Dairy Management Inc. (DMI) provides compelling evidence that genetic selection using the Dairy Wellness Profit Index® (DWP$®) can deliver measurable productivity...
July 21 2025
Select Sires Inc. welcomes eight summer interns across multiple departments. Garrett Hastings joins the veterinary team assisting with herd health management
July 17 2025
Like many dairies, we work our cattle as they exit the milking parlor. However, it wasn’t until we recently reviewed all our timed artificial insemination (A.I.) protocols that I realized what an...
July 3 2025
We're excited to announce that the 48th Discover Conference will be held in partnership with the American Society of Animal Science (ASAS) and will focus on "Beef x Dairy: Opportunity Intersection of Nutrition,...
June 20 2025
Select Sires announced the passing of influential Holstein sire 250HO12961 Woodcrest King DOC (EX-90)
June 16 2025
The rapid genetic progress we have made as a dairy industry in the short time since the introduction of sexed semen and genomic evaluations has been covered in depth in recent articles
May 28 2025
Holstein Association USA is pleased to recognize Tim Rauen of Epworth, Iowa as this year’s Distinguished Young Holstein Breeder
May 26 2025
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the use of gene-edited technology that results in a pig resistant to the costly porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS)
April 10 2025
You can access the full rankings for all breeds in the April 2025 Hoard's Dairyman Bull List
April 7 2025
You can access the full rankings for all breeds in the April 2025 Hoard's Dairyman Bull List
Feb. 17 2025
The genetics of the U.S. dairy herd has improved incredibly over the years
Dec. 6 2024
After the August triannual genetic evaluations included multiple updates and brought new leaders to many of the Holstein and Jersey lists, the results of this month’s evaluations were stable
Dec. 2 2024
Three times a year, dairy producers and breeders eagerly await new genetic evaluations on all dairy cattle in the national cooperator database
Sept. 10 2024
recently, I have had breeders express to me a level of concern over the number of bulls whose proofs declined substantially once they had daughters
May 23 2024
After years of back-and-forth between the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and USDA about which group should regulate these animals and how, the FDA announced guidance that it will lead the charge and...