Even Select Sires, a company that is in the business of selling bull semen, was surprised by the findings. Charles Sattler, a company vice president, sees the news as a bit of a reality check, but ...

"This is the company Select Sires," he says. It's one of just a few companies in the United States that sells semen from bulls for the purpose of artificially inseminating dairy cows. Dechow ...

Most U.S. dairy cows are born with horns, but most farms remove them. Animal welfare groups say dehorning is cruel. Instead, they want ranchers to breed more hornless cattle into their herds.

A dairy cow cannot be a world-class producer of milk if it is not properly conditioned as a calf. The preparation of a dairy cow starts by selecting a good bull for her mother. Ideally, you want ...

Select Sires scheduled an organizational meeting for Minnesota in 1986, but Czech didn't attend. The family belonged to some cooperatives, he said, but going to a meeting didn't appeal to him.

Zoetis and Select Sires Inc. have announced a partnership to help cattle producers gain more from data. The partnership provides a grid marketing service, GeneNet, which will provide Performance ...

Chad Dechow, a geneticist at Pennsylvania State University who studies dairy cows, is explaining how all of America's cows ended up so similar to each other. He brings up a website on his computer ...

The drive to make more milk has had an unsavory side effect: Cows have become more genetically similar and less fertile. Scientists are trying to recover valuable genetic variation that was lost.