Beef on dairy

March 2025

Beef on dairy

Belgian Blue: A Major Player in the Beef-On-Dairy Market

With its explosive early muscle development, the Belgian Blue has become the most popular beef breed for use over dairy cows in Europe. Here we look at the development of...

March 2025

Beef on dairy

Synetics: Inra95 & Angus Most Popular

‘Beef-on-Dairy (BoD) is a significant aspect of dairy farming, virtually world-wide. Especially in Germany, we see varying expectations from customers; at minimum, they want easy births, and a high price...

March 2025

Beef on dairy

Successful Beef-on-Dairy: Powered by Angus

Angus or Angus based composite sires are now a major force in the beef-on-dairy revolution that has swept through the dairy industry around the world. Here we talk with specialists...

August 2024

Management

Synetics: Extra Focus on Sire Fertility and Calving Ease

For decades, Synetics and its partners have placed a lot of emphasis on the Beef-on-Dairy strategy. So that today no less than eight breeds – all tested based on field...

August 2024

Management

World Wide Sires: ProfitSource Branded Terminal Sires for the Beef-On-Dairy Market

Data, traceability, quality assurance and sustainability are all very important elements that have been built into every stage of the supply chain. ‘We now have over 35,000 carcass records from...

August 2024

Management

Dunmasc: Finding That Sweet Spot Between Good Carcass Weight and Easy Calving

‘Over the last couple of years sexed dairy semen has continued to gain traction here in Ireland, with the top end of herds bred to top dairy bulls and the...

August 2024

Management

Genes Diffusion: Long History of Selecting and Proving Bulls for Beef-On-Dairy

Genes Diffusion has nearly 50 years of tradition behind it’s beef-on-dairy program. Their product line for beef sires selected specifically for use over dairy cows is know as Safe. Bulls...

August 2024

Management

Belgian Blue Group (BBG) is active in more than 50 countries

‘Every market is different, and our primary goal is to deliver the best bull for every market,’ explains Simon Noppen of BBG. The BBG is active in more than 50...

April 2023

Beef on dairy

STg: Elite Testing Program for Optimal Use of Beef-on-Dairy

The name says it all: ST stands for Sexing Technologies. This organization is one of the important pioneers in the area of sexing semen. Thanks to this technology, dairy farmers...

April 2023

Beef on dairy

Synetics: One of the biggest, and certainly one of the most diverse BOD lineups

With over eight million doses of semen sold, of which three million went to the international market, the German-French breeding program of Synetics counts as one of the biggest players...

April 2023

Beef on dairy

Cogent: A Beef-on-Dairy Strategy Already Since 2009!

Beef-on-dairy is absolutely not a new phenomenon at the British AI company Cogent. ‘We launched our beef-on-dairy program in 2009 in order to ensure that we could make the right...

April 2023

Belgium

Enormous growth for BBG

HI has already reported various times about the Belgian Blue Group (BBG) and that is not surprising: the organization has a large offering of >200 sires and is active in...