Gold Medal Dam - Criteria
  • A cow must be identified in the Holstein Association's herdbook with at least 87% RHA-NA and be born in the US.
  • Automatic evaluation of all cows, twice a year. Recognition is permanent.
  • A cow and at least three of her daughters must have been classified and production tested (need not be the same offspring) to qualify.
  • Equal emphasis placed on production and type. In addition equal emphasis on progeny and dam performance, based on dam's own age adjusted final score, dam's average 2X - 305 day M.E. production records, average of daughters' age adjusted scores, and average of daughters' M.E. production records.
  • Alternatively, if the cow (herself) does not qualify on a mature equivalent basis, she will qualify on either one of the following lifetime credits; 200,000 pounds of milk or 7,200 pounds of fat or 6,400 pounds of protein.
 

Year
of Birth

Dam
Milk Cutoff

Dam
Fat
Cutoff
 

Dam
Protein
Cutoff
 

Dam
AASC
Cutoff
 

Daughter
Milk
Cutoff
 

Daughter
Fat
Cutoff

Daughter
Protein
Cutoff
 

Daughter
AASC
Cutoff
 

1979
1980
1981
1982
1983
1984
1985
1986
1987
1988
1989
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
21169
21658
22202
22729
23166
23312
23705
24095
24400
24890
25233
25620
26007
26395
26782
27169
27569
27968
28367
28766
29166
29565
738
756
775
793
808
813
827
841
852
869
881
894
908
921
935
948
962
976
990
1004
1018
1032
613
628
643
659
671
676
687
698
707
721
731
742
754
765
776
787
799
811
822
834
845
857
83.0
83.0
83.0
83.0
83.0
83.0
83.0
83.0
83.0
83.0
83.0
83.0
83.0
83.0
83.0
83.0
83.0
83.0
83.0
83.0
83.0
83.0
21669
22158
22702
23229
23666
23812
24205
24595
24900
25390
25733
26120
26507
26895
27282
27669
28069
28468
28867
29266
29666
30065
758
776
795
813
828
833
847
861
872
889
901
914
928
941
955
968
982
996
1010
1024
1038
1052
628
643
658
674
686
691
702
713
722
736
746
757
769
780
791
802
814
826
837
849
860
872

83.0
83.0
83.0
83.0
83.0
83.0
83.0
83.0
83.0
83.0
83.0
83.0
83.0
83.0
83.0
83.0
83.0
83.0
83.0
83.0
83.0
83.0