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Holstein Canada

The Holstein Association of Canada is the largest dairy organization in Canada. With over 14,000 members, it strives to enhance the Holstein breed, using the most advanced breeding technology. Holstein Canada maintains a world renowned Herd Book and provides quality services to assists its members in evaluating, selecting and profiting from genetic improvement.

Holstein Association of Canada,
P.O. Box 610
Brantford, Ontario, Canada N3T 5R4
Phone: (519) 756-8300 Fax: (519) 756-5878.

This is an outstanding site with good links!

Holstein Canada - Animal Information Sheet

A fabulous service for anyone with an interest in Canadian Holsteins. Once again Holstein Canada leads the way

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Sire Proofs

July 1995 Canadian Sire Proofs

The Canadian System emphasizes a "Balanced Breeding" approach, with equal emphasis on both type and production, providing breeders with high production and longevity. The Lifetime Profit Index (LPI) is a unique Canadian index for ranking sires based on a formula that reinforces the balanced breeding approach.

International sire evaluation with MACE

Today, with the help of Multiple-trait Across Country Evaluations (MACE), breeders can directly compare the best bulls from around the world with those at home. MACE uses sire evaluations from each country together with the pedigree information that relates them to produce evaluations for all bulls on the scale used by the importing country.

mAce for Type Traits: What's New

Although MACE (Multiple-trait Across Country Evaluations) began in Canada, the International Bull Evaluation Service (INTERBULL), based in Sweden, now provides MACE on foreign sires for production traits on a regular basis. When MACE rankings were first produced, it became clear that Canadian producers were not happy with receiving only production information on foreign bulls. Interbull, however, was not in a position to also offer MACE for conformation traits. So, early in 1995, Canada became the first country to produce MACE for conformation (University of Guelph) as well as production traits (Canadian Dairy Network).

(Canadian) Holstein Journal

The Holstein Journal is the last major Holstein breed magazine that features "Breeder Ads".

Long ago, in what seems like a different world, I actually figured out how to read by asking my Dad the names of cows pictured in the Canadian Journal.
Many feature articles that have appeared in the Holstein Journal are archived at : http://www.aps.uoguelph.ca/cgil/articles/popularpress.html

67th Royal Agricultural Winter Fair results 7/21/96

The 67th annual Royal Agricultural Winter Fair.

The most prestigious Holstein show on the planet.

1995 World Dairy Expo results 7/21/96

An amazing elite group of cattle were trucked from all across Canada and the United States to be shown during this world renowned event.

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Royal Bank of Canada - Dairy Farm Operations

The bank looks at dairy farms! They got some of it right too!

Introduction

Profile

Production

Feed

Housing

Milk Quality

Herd Health

Technology

Metric/Imperial Equivalents

Quota

Budgeting Parameters

Farm Visit

Industry Publications

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Canadian bull studs

United Breeders, Inc.

The 1995 Bull Book. Features new Sire and Daughter pictures and of course the latest proof information. The 1994 Bull Book is still online.

Semex Canada

Semex Distributors are available all over the world to deliver top Canadian genetics to your doorstep.

Western Ontario Breeders, Inc. (WOBI)

Western Ontario Breeders is an Artifical Insemination Co-operative located just north of Woodstock, Ontario, Canada on Hwy 59 North. They have information on Holstein proven bulls as well as Holstein Young Sires.

 

Relax! Prelude is still a really good bull.

Prelude has taken a tremendous setback on the Canadian proof system. Many AI units around the world have more Prelude sons than any other sire. Needless to say, this has caused widespread consternation. In my opinion, based on many observations of Preludes here in Ohio, there is very little cause for concern. We just saw five milking Preludes at the World Dairy Expo. While they did not win, they were outstanding individuals. By the way, It is not true that Prelude was bred only to the best cows. Here in Ohio, he was used primarily on high index cows. In my opinion, the high index cows that we see here in Ohio are below average type and not necessarily the best producers in their respective herds.