Of the roughly 25.5 million head of harvested beef cattle in the U.S., about 5 million of those have traditionally been Holsteins.
But beef-on-dairy crossbreds — the result of breeding beef semen to dairy cows — now take up most of the Holstein chunk, about 3.25 million head this year, said Dale Woerner, the Cargill endowed professor in the Department of Animal and Food Sciences at Texas Tech.
With overall beef numbers down because of drought and high feed prices, now is the perfect time for the dairy industry to cash in on what is a golden chance to build calf value and carve out a nice…
