The beef many of us enjoy today is a result of years of selecting superior animals that deliver a more consistent product.

In a remarkable stride toward environmental sustainability, farmers are actively engaged in the practice of selective cow breeding, aiming to reduce methane emissions and thereby reaffirming their ...

BUFFALO – Michael Rea focused the lens of his microscope, scanning each section of a small dish, sifting through specks and smudges, looking for something. Behind him, Brent and Stephanie Painter ...

Synomics, an Anglo-Danish biological insights business, has identified a way to reduce emissions within agricultural cattle by selecting the ones that produce less methane genetically. Its scientists ...

Lifetime cow productivity begins with heifer selection. When does selection happen? At weaning, or after breeding? The answer is both. There are basic principles of selecting replacement heifers with ...

Similarities in how water buffalo and cattle have responded to human domestication through selective breeding, could aid the development of more productive, healthy and sustainable livestock, ...

Due to current high cattle prices, many producers have intentions of retaining and developing heifers from their spring calf crop. Developing heifers is expensive — usually more so than buying them — ...

The American beef cattle herd is at its lowest level since 1973, with the U.S. Department of Agriculture reporting the total herd at 86.7 million in January, one of the lowest inventories since the ...

Trixie, the heifer, had produced just a handful of immature egg cells, none of which were usable. Rea wasn’t shocked. He said that heifers who hadn’t borne a calf before, like Trixie, weren’t great ...