ADRIAN, Minn. — People lined up July 12 to peer into a microscope at Bullerman Angus Farm in rural Adrian. They were visiting as part of the Summer Beef Tour, put on by the Rock-Nobles Cattlemen's ...

AMES, Iowa – Beef and dairy producers want the animals in their herds to possess the best genetics possible. But a cow can have only one calf per year, which places a natural limitation on how widely ...

The adoption of individual-cow monitoring technology has created the ability to customize reproductive decisions based on the potential of each cow to respond to a specific breeding strategy.

Dr. Jim Donahue and his team at ReproHealth Technologies are tweaking the design on a device that allows a surrogate cow to incubate embryos. (IBJ photos/Eric Learned) Dr. Jim Donahue did not ...

AMES, Iowa – Iowa State University animal science and veterinary researchers made possible the first ever successful bovine embryo transfers in the Republic of Kosovo, paving the way toward improved ...

DAHLEN, North Dakota — When Terry Ellingson was in veterinary college in the 1970s, he was struck by a revolutionary technique called embryo transfer. Embryo transfer refers to taking an egg from a ...

The use of in-vitro fertilisation in cattle breeding is growing globally, driven by advances in genomics and an increasing desire among farmers to breed more intensively from their best animals. “Most ...