Underberg recently held a very successful Go Black and White Holstein competition for the second year running. Judges Herman Duvenage, general manager of the SA Holstein Society, and Brett Puttergill, of Puttergill Holsteins in the Eastern Cape, looked for functional efficiency traits and dispensed excellent constructive criticism.
Viv and Leith Turner won best cow and best udder with Hlogoma 4004, a Clinita Patron Foundation daughter. They also won the first and the second lactation groups and came second in the progeny group with eight Adam daughters. Bonsma Farming won the progeny group with a group of Tulip daughters.
Wally Pooler and Phillip “Large” Turner’s cows won second place in the first lactation groups and second lactation groups respectively. Mike Willment’s cows took second place for best udder and best cow. The herd with the best improvement from second-to-third lactation cows belonged to Ross Treleavan. – Wayne Southwood
