Whether you are going to be using artificial insemination or turning out bulls for natural service, planning plays an ...
Early grazing-season forages may not have enough nutrients to satisfy your heifers’ needs. Either wait to turn them out or ...
University of Saskatchewan researchers have discovered something they say will revolutionize cattle breeding: an IVF hormone ...
From heat stress to winter supplementation, every calving season has trade-offs. Here is how to align your herd’s genetics ...
The Nguni cattle breed has shown remarkable resilience to foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) during the current outbreak in South ...
The Ministry of Agriculture yesterday approved the registration of a new cattle breed named “Yuansing” (源興), the first cattle species developed by a private entity to be approved by the government.
The only place to see an aurochs in nature these days? A cave painting. The enormous wild cattle that once roamed the European plains have been extinct since 1627, when the last survivor died in a ...
The days of guess work in breeding dairy cattle are gone. Today's DNA sequencing means more productive cows and less pollution. Breeding cattle through artificial insemination began in the 1940’s.
A new DNA bank offers huge opportunities for improvement of cattle breeding. The sequencing of the bovine genome has been completed and presents new opportunities to discover the influence of genes on ...