Use Of Artificial Insemination For N.Z. Dairy Herds?
The organisation by the herd-re-cording department of the Dairy Board of the first two commercial artificial insemination groups is announced in the annual report of the Department of Agriculture. A Waikato group consists of 15 herds with 720 cows and a Taranaki group 15 herds with 600 cows. The cows were mainly grades, though a number of pedigrees were included. At Ruakura Animal Research Station the normal experimental grade group and the pedigree group were carried on.
| A summary of artificial inseminai tion work of the past seven years states that it has become abundantly clear that the provision of a service to commercial dairy farmers on any adequate scale is not only extremely difficult but hardly practicable with old proven bulls. On the other hand, the extension of to pedigree -cattle on a national basis now seems both technically and practicably possible.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/BPB19500807.2.11
Bibliographic details
Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 15, Issue 19, 7 August 1950, Page 4
Word Count
151Use Of Artificial Insemination For N.Z. Dairy Herds? Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 15, Issue 19, 7 August 1950, Page 4
Using This Item
Beacon Printing and Publishing Company is the copyright owner for the Bay of Plenty Beacon. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence . This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Beacon Printing and Publishing Company. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.