Year by year: Breeding a Better Generation

Farm owner Malcolm Jones' latest line of genetics, which consist of 134 rising one-year-old crossbred calves, are 25gBW points better than the previous year's line of replacements, the rising two-year-olds. That's impressive, given the traditional dairy farm expectation of past decade dictates that replacement-calves average an annual 10gBW-point gain on the previous year. [...]

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