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SELECTIONS - Summer 2003
World Champion Cows

World Champion Cows


From left, Weisenfeld Integrity Madame, Gaige Highlight Tamara, Idee Lustree and Vandyk-K Integrity Paradise were voted Holstein World Champion Cow of the Year by readers of Holstein International. Photos from left: G. Soldi, Kathy DeBruin, Patty Jones and Kathy DeBruin.

World-wide readers of Holstein International recently selected the Holstein World Champion of the Year, voting Select-sired cows as the top four champions. Vandyk-K Integrity Paradise, Excellent (97), was the first-place winner of the contest. Sired by 7HO4213 Robthom INTEGRITY-ET*TV, this supreme champion of the 2000 and 2002 World Dairy Expo, Madison, Wis., is owned by Mark Rueth, Wis. and Kent Vandyk, Wash. Two other INTEGRITY daughters, Idee Lustre Excellent (95), the supreme champion of the 2002 Royal Agricultural Winter Fair, Canada, owned by Erhardt Farms, Baldwin, Md. and Wiesenfeld Integreity Madame, Excellent (90), Martin Rubesam, Germany, placed second and fourth, respectively. In third place was Gaige Highlight Tamara, Excellent (95). Tamara, owned by Allison Gaige, Schoharie, N.Y., was reserve grand champion at World Dairy Expo. She is sired by Select veteran 7HO3257 HIGHLIGHT Mr Mark Cinder-ET*CV.









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