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The Simmental or Swiss Fleckvieh is reddish in colour with white markings, and is kept for milk and meat. There he was: The gorgeous beast — the well toned skin is wine red, it is neatly horned and ...

The American Simmental Association celebrated its 50 years anniversary in conjunction with its annual Fall Focus board meeting and educational symposium at the ASA headquarters in Bozeman, Aug. 25 to ...

Five cattle breed societies – Simmental, Salers, Charolais, Parthenaise and Blonde – are withdrawing Irish Cattle Breeding Federation (ICBF)Euro-star indices from sales catalogues. The Irish Simmental ...

At 80 years old, Tony Thompson shows no sign of slowing down. With five decades of breeding behind him, Thompson's passion for cattle - particularly the Simmental breed - remains as strong as ever. On ...

LA GRANDE – What can cow-calf producers do to make their operations more successful? Jerry Lipsey has some suggestions. Make better cattle and better beef. Make accurate genetic decisions. Breed for ...

Willie O’Halloran, his wife, Mary and son, Robbie, farm their multi-prize-winning Simmental herd in partnership under the Bearna-Dhearg prefix in Chamberlainstown, Cahir, Co Tipperary. Willie, a ...

Frank Fitzpatrick raises Barzona cattle and has about 600 of them on his ranch in California. In high school, he did his senior project on Limousin and Simmental cattle, then started studying Jan ...

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 ...

Behind every good bull is an even better cow, one that must jump through a lot of hoops - year in, year out - with as much data collected on her as possible. And these impressive cows are the priority ...