Farmers Are Breeding Hybrid Dairy Cattle to Sell for Meat

With America’s supply of beef cattle the lowest since 1961, dairy farmers are finding another way to make money: breed more calves destined for the slaughterhouse.

Dairy farmers, who traditionally produce new milking cows to replace their outgoing ones, are increasingly churning out meatier offspring that they can sell to ranchers to raise for human consumption. Those hybrid calves — created by artificially inseminating a dairy cow with semen from a beef bull — are beefier than a pure dairy animal and can fetch the seller hundreds or even thousands of dollars apiece. That’s a big payday in an industry that last summer faced such a pronounced milk glut that farmers were forced to dump it down the drain.

Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-05-17/us-farmers-breed-hybrid-dairy-cows-to-grow-beef-supply?srnd=markets-vp&sref=omvmmwIg

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