Beef-on-Dairy International
Semex: ‘A Win-Win Situation for All of our Customers.’
Very recently (HI 03/2023), an HI article appeared about the beef-on-dairy program at Semex. At the same time, on the cover of this Beef-on-Dairy International section you see a popular...
Early Beef-on-Dairy Start in the US
‘Beef-on-Dairy started a long time ago here. As soon as sexed semen was introduced, progressive dairy farmers started with beef-on-dairy. Four years ago that accelerated when calf growers started paying...
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...
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...
WWS: Hayter Tells Us About “the Holstein of the Beef Industry”
Talk about an experienced giant in the beef-on-dairy market: in 2022, WWS (the international arm of Select Sires and Accelerated Genetics) sold more than 3.8 million doses of beef semen:...
Dúnmasc: All Beef Breeds have Something to Offer Beef-on-Dairy
Ireland has an index (DBI) that is especially developed for beef-on-dairy. ‘It’s a truly valuable instrument for both distributors and farmers to distinguish the best sires for beef-on-dairy,’ explains Stephen...
Substantial and Useful Beef-on-Dairy Experience at KI Samen
At the Dutch AI company KI Samen, they are clear about the future prospects for beef-on-dairy: ‘The average age of milking cows needs to increase, and therefore herd turnover rates...
Interesting: Piedmontese!
Well known: Angus and Belgian-Blue are among the big names in the beef-on-dairy business. But those looking for an interesting and proven alternative will find a good candidate in the...
Swissgenetics: ‘Quality is the Key to Success.’
‘Switzerland has a strong demand for quality. As such, there is also demand for higher meat quality, and a lot of beef production takes place on dairy farms. Eventually the...
BVN: Calving Ease an Important Trump Card for Fleckvieh Dual Purpose Sires
BVN, Germany’s largest Fleckvieh breeding program will host an open house on May 1. At the new sire facility in Neustadt a.d.Aisch, thousands of visitors will be presented with about...
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...
Gènes Diffusion: The Best Beef-on-Dairy Guarantees
The French breeding organization Gènes Diffusion, working with the breed Charolais among others, has several decades of experience with beef-on-dairy. ‘As soon as farmers in our region switched to Holsteins,...