Tom and Bev Phelan, in partnership with their son Leo, run Dalmore Dairy in Tasmania. This is Bev’s story of their breeding journey searching for the most profitable cow, the one they founded by crossing their Friesian with VikingRed and VikingJersey. 

The Giaroli family runs a dairy operation in Marmirolo (RE), the typical exclusive area where world known Parmigiano-Reggiano can be made. The family milk about 500 cows and the story of the Giarolis, their connection to cows and cheese started back in 1929. 

Bengt Svensson is running the Törlan farm in Halland in Sweden. He is convinced that ProCROSS is the best decision that he and Ulf Persson, co-owner of Törlan, took to increase the bottom line of this dairy business. 

The Veldhuis family at Veldhuis Dairy in Yakima County, Washington State, in US, is firmly convinced they took the right steps in choosing VikingGenetics as their partner to improve the family dairy business where they currently milk 16,000 Jersey cows and Jersey crosses. 

"Our cows produce good milk with good solids. However, what we are excited about is that our cows continue to produce good milk even late in their lactations. Our pride is our first lactation daughters. They are the proof that we are moving in the right direction. The cows provide you with cheese on your pizza and food on our table!", says Jan Rossouw, South Africa

Deasy stresses the fact that healthy cows are a synonym for a productive farm. “Health traits are the biggest thing really, I'm happy with my production. I'm in the commercial kind of herd, so I'm not gambling anymore, I go for the safest option”, the owner of Ballyheada Farm in Cork, Ireland says. 

Milking 1300 cows in organic milk production makes it important that your cows are working well. All cows that take extra time, are cows that you should not have in the herd.