Glacier FarmMedia – A cow bred in Saskatchewan is the 2025 Grand Champion Holstein at the World Dairy Expo.
Lovhill Sidekick Kandy Cane was also the Reserve Supreme Champion cow, second to the top Red and White Holstein in the show, Golden-Oaks Temptress-Red.
Kandy Cane, owned by Alicia and Jonathon Lamb of Oakfield, New York, was bred by Michael and Jessica Lovich of Lovholm Holsteins, Balgonie, Sask., Kandy Cane was the winner of the five-year-old cow class.
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This is not the first Grand Champion Holstein bred by the Lovich family, with Lovhill Goldwyn Katrysha winning grand champion in 2015.
Other big Canadian winners included Ferme Jacobs from Quebec, as the premier breeder at the show, even though the farm did not bring its own show string. The farm’s heifers and cows were shown by enough other farms that they still won the award.
Clarkvalley Hoslteins and Ronald Grandy had multiple class winners during the show. Canadian cattle won numerous classes, especially in the heifer classes.
In the Holstein show, Go-Sho Detect Revenge-ET won the spring heifer class for Pierre Boulet from Quebec and Clarkvalley Holsteins from Ontario. Clarkvalley also won the winter heifer class with Petitclerc Jerry Adine and were second in the fall heifer class with Sco-Lo Legendary-ET.
Silverdream Major Tootsie was first in the spring yearling heifer class for Ronald Grandy of Beaverton, Ont.
Grandy also win the winter yearling class with Echo Glen Master Ivy, also the junior champion calf.
Jolipre Master Angel won the summer yearly class and reserve junior champion for Joel Lepage of Amqui, QC.
Echo Glen Farm of Dorchester, Ont. won the best three junior females class and Ferme Petitclerc Et Fils, St-Basile, Que. placed second.
In the cow classes, Ronald Grady won again for Famipage Legend Barabas and she was also the reserve intermediate female champion.
Altona Lea Unix Herminie won in the six-year-old and older cow class for Dalton J. Faris of Beaverton, Ont.
There were few Canadian winners in the other breed shows.
In the Jersey show, Liberty Gen Chocolate Mousse-ET, owned by Ronald Grandy of Beaverton, Ont. won the winter calf class.
In the Ayrshire show, Vieux Village Gentleman Joy, last year’s grand champion, from Piopolis, Que., won the six-year-old cow class.
In the Milking Shorthorn show, Cold Spring PV M Believe In Me_ET, won the Spring Heifer class for Mount Elgin Dairy Farms of Ontario.
