Holstein Switzerland

Founded in 1899, Holstein Switzerland is a dairy industry service provider based in Posieux, Switzerland selling farm equipment & herd tech, testing & quality.

Holstein Switzerland is a cooperative and the official herdbook keeper for the Holstein breed in Switzerland, founded as the Swiss Holstein federation in 1899. It serves its member farmers, who join through breeders' unions, breeders' associations or as individuals, with herdbook registration, milk recording, genetic evaluation and genomic testing, and parentage control. It also offers herd management tools, including the HolsteinVision online system and the Holstein Mobile app, and runs a mastitis pathogen analysis service with a laboratory partner. The cooperative reports more than 1,950 members and over 124,000 registered Holstein females across 86 breeders' unions in 25 cantons. Its headquarters are at the Grangeneuve agricultural institute in Posieux, Fribourg.