Beef-on-dairy: Hittingthe tipping point

摘要

Coming soon to a feedyard near you — Fl beef-dairy calves. No, wait. They're already there. Have been for a while, in fact.Now, however, we've reached the tipping point, says Don Close, senior protein analyst with Rabo AgriFinance. "Up to this point, breeding beef genetics onto dairy cows has largely been experimental," he says. "But dairies and semen companies expect therewill be a large increase in beef-on-dairy calves coming to market in 2020, with rapid transition over the next three to five years."