WITH TEAMWORK, YOUR PREGNANCY RATE COULD EXCEED 20 PERCENT

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"A herd pregnancy rate of 25 percent is rare -- and rarer yet for a herd of this size," veterinarian John Lee says of his clients at foe Homen & Sons Dairy Farm near Merced, Calif. The Homen dairy has 1,327 cows and does an outstanding job with its reproductive program. "Our reproduction is kicking butt right now," says co-owner Frank Homen. But it wasn't always that way. A few years ago, the dairy's pregnancy rate was 16 percent. Frank Homen set up a synchronized-breeding program, and did everything he could to ensure that each cow got her breeding shots on time.