Beef on dairy
December 2019
Simon Vander Woude:One Man’s Experience with Beef on Dairy
Vander Woude Dairy is based at Merced, California, and for the last seven years they have been using beef semen on part of their Holstein herd. Owner Simon Vander Woude...
November 2019
Beef-on-Dairy: The Crucial Choices of Semen Quality through to Product Guarantee
Beef-on-Dairy, the use of beef sires on (part) of the dairy herd, is a global phenomenon. In North America, Beef-on-Dairy has been the most significant development during the past five...
April 2019
Beef-on-Dairy: Various Beef Breeds Have Their Own Selection Programs
In HI’s February issue (pgs. 10-11) you became acquainted with the phenomenon Beef-on-Dairy: the breeding of dairy cows to beef bulls. As the result of extensive use of sexed semen...
February 2019
“Beef on Dairy”: Significant Increase in the Use of Beef Bulls on Dairy Cows
In HI, we seldom or never write an article about the beef breeds. Nevertheless, there is a good reason to do that now, because the use of beef bulls on...