Not many things in the livestock business are free, but heterosis — the bump in performance from crossbreeding — is one of them. Then, why don’t we take full advantage of it in our commercial beef ...

List the many advantages of crossbreeding and Sloan Walker will listen politely. Then he'll look across the pasture at his clone-like, growthy feeder steers and say, "I haven't lost a thing." The ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. -- Crossbreeding dairy cows -- some farmers do it, some don't. University of Wisconsin-Madison Professor Kent Wiegel spoke Nov. 2 at the Managing and Marketing Quality Holstein Steers ...

Alan Kelley was a boy, his father bought him a handful of purebred Brahman cows. One was accidentally bred and produced a Simmental-sired heifer calf. It was the beginning of a new way of thinking ...

Innovative breeders in the western U.S. and Canada have been experimenting with bison-cattle crosses for a long time, starting with some of the early ranchers in the western states and some of the ...

Any dog owner will tell you that there is a decision to be made when selecting a new pet: Is it better to get a purebred dog or one that comes from a mixed genetic heritage? For pet owners, the ...

Facing economic challenges, dairy farmers are increasingly crossbreeding some of their Holstein cows with beef breed bulls to add value to surplus calves born in their herds. In an analysis of almost ...

Robin Aswani has a “good” Zebu cow; good in the sense that it produces relatively high quantity of milk compared to other cows in its league. Mr Aswani wishes to milk more from this Zebu cow but he ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. China and Laos are moo-ving toward more sustainable cattle farming with a crossbreeding agreement that marks the first export of ...