THE beef industry is increasingly following the dairy sector’s lead in the adoption of sexed semen in artificial breeding programs
Dairy was the early adopter in pioneering the use of sex-sorted semen, principally because of the industry’s overwhelming focus on the value of female calves over males, for milk production. Any opportunity to bump the gender ratio in calves towards the female side provided considerable attraction.
Sexed semen sales are however also growing at a rapid rate in the beef industry, as the size of the artificial breeding market grows.
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