Sunday, October 23, 2011

Nothing new, just a reminder that breeding systems work

Once the industry decided that the walls would not cave in when Hereford bulls were mated to Angus cows or vice versa, the world of beef cattle systems was created.
In the beginning, life was simple because all a producer needed to do was take an established herd of purebred or straight-bred cows and put a different breed of bull with the cows. Given that, the world of crossbreeding started to emerge.
As a point of significance, for many producers, such crossings were considered improper in those days, and one perhaps could even use the word sacrilegious.


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