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“Cows that produce milk effortlessly from natural strength, move smoothly, and combine beauty with functionality.” With these words, herd manager Alex Borst describes the descendants of the rapidly expanding Doma family at Koepon Holsteins in Feerwerd (The Netherlands). This description certainly also applies to OH Ranger daughter Koepon Ranger Doma 58, the dam of InSire bull Koepon Real Life.

Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Egon Verheijden will leave CRV as of 15 June. This has been announced by the Supervisory Board of CRV Holding BV.

“The results of breeding only become visible in the long term,” says Dutch dairy farmer Rob Wientjes from Sint Anthonis. That is why, according to him, it is important to already think about traits that will become important in the future. Low greenhouse gas emissions per kilogram of milk is one such trait.

For years, the Jane family has been one of the most influential cow families in CRV’s breeding program. Several current InSire bulls trace their bloodlines back to foundation cow Groenibo Stellando Jane from the Borst-Beemsterboer family farm in Heerhugowaard (The Netherlands). She was the dam of Groenibo Bram and produced nearly 110,000 kg of milk during her lifetime, with 4.44% fat and 3.54% protein. “Stellando Jane was smaller than average but strongly built. She was a powerhouse, a trouble free farmer’s cow with strong legs and a highly functional udder. The Janes are persistent, high-producing grazing cows, and Stellando Jane fit that picture perfectly,” breeder Sjon Borst once said about her.

Cows like Gastelsveer Jeltje 97, bred by the Van Merriënboer family from Oud Gastel (The Netherlands), demonstrate the strength of an open breeding program. The Ranger daughter was once the heifer with the highest NVI-score in the Netherlands, was purchased by CRV, and housed with Arjen Vernooij in Schalwijk (The Netherlands). There, the Jeltje family quickly developed into one of the largest cow families at Hedra Holsteins.

Thanks to continuously improving breeding value estimation, the reliability of genomic breeding values for bulls has increased significantly in recent years. As a result, the breeding values of daughter-proven bulls now bring few surprises. Genomic bulls are fully meeting expectations. This index run once again provides proof with the daughter debuts of bulls such as Delta Borax and Delta Appetizer, and the increasing reliability of, among others, Delta Emoji P and the Delta brothers Dolmen and Flagstone. This promises a lot for the youngest generation of genomic bulls, which shows an unprecedented high level.