Success StoryReproductive Efficiency & Artificial Insemination Classes Encourage Beef Producers to Increase the Intensity of their Management Skills



Reproductive Efficiency & Artificial Insemination Classes Encourage Beef Producers to Increase the Intensity of their Management Skills

Author: Michelle Simon

Planning Unit: Campbell County CES

Major Program: Beef

Plan of Work: Beef Cattle Production

Outcome: Long-Term Outcome

Boone County ANR Agent collaborated with several industry partners including Select Sires Mid-America, Carrollton Veterinary Service, and Richwood Farms to teach producers innovative techniques and protocols to more intensively manage their cattle herds with the goal of increasing efficiency and productivity. Fourteen producers became certified to artificially inseminate cattle by Select Sires Mid-America trainers after completing a three day course organized by the Boone County ANR Agent that included classroom sessions regarding heat detection, estrous synchronization, anatomy dissections, utilizing synthetic products to manipulate synchronization schedules, and hands- on training breeding cull cows and palpating reproductive tracts to better understand the anatomy of cattle. Following this certification were two field days at Richwood Farm where one-hundred and thirty cows were synchronized with a two-week protocol and then bred by artificial insemination by Carrolton Veterinary Services. Producers learned how to administer injections, insert and remove CIDR devices, and how to artificially breed cattle. Sixty-five percent of these participants incorporated skills learned from these certifications and field days and have improved the reproductive management of their herds.






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