APRIL 2009
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24
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BRITISH FRIESIAN
82 Friesian Focus
VET & MANAGEMENT
70
110 Bluetongue warning
HYB
86 All Britain Calf Show
SHOWS

118 Royal Ulster Winter Fair
BREEDING NEWS
56
112 Breeding News
114 Sire Road Tests
116 Breeder’s Choice
FROM HOLSTEIN UK
2 From Holstein UK
SPECIAL FEATURE - TECHNOLOGY
4 Centenary pages
12 The Virtual Cow
6 People page
44 Breeders’ Forum
11 Changes to Classification routes
48 Gildersbeck Holsteins
16 2008 All Britain results

52 Computer mating programs
24 National Holstein Show
56 Kemble Farms
40 LP awards
62 Sexed semen success
70 Terling & Hunday Princesses
66 Reaseheath College
78 Breeders’ Achievements
94 Club news
Cover: The 2007 National Holstein Show
104 VG88 & 89 Heifers
Champion was the Wills Brothers’
Bassingthorpe Leader Dilys 10.
106 Classification summary
Pictures by Richard Hodgson and Jane Steel.
CONTENTS
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