Impressive Potential
- More than 1,700,000 registered Holstein and more than 150,000 registered Red Holstein cows
- More than 750,000 registered Fleckvieh and more than 130,000 registered Brown Swiss cows
- Largest Holstein breeding population worldwide
- Largest Red Holstein breeding population worldwide
- Largest Fleckvieh breeding population worldwide
- Largest Brown Swiss breeding population worldwide
- Proven cow families having deep pedigrees
- Lots of different bloodlines
- One of the oldest Holstein herd books in the world (1878) including overall data of more than 7,000,000 cattle
- National and international breeding programs
- versatile reference samples in the world
- Worldwide accepted estimation formula for the calculation of genomic breeding values with successful practice validation