Crossbreds are healthier, longer-lasting, and more profitable

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CROSSBRED DAIRY COWS are healthier and make more money on the farm than their purebred cousins, says an American professor who has spent a decade analyzing results from a targeted three-breed study.Les Hansen, speaking at the Western Canadian Dairy Seminar in March, said Holstein genetic programs have been relatively late to breeding for traits which favour commercial operations - and have failed to prevent inbreeding.