The Simmental or Swiss Fleckvieh is reddish in colour with white markings, and is kept for milk and meat. There he was: The gorgeous beast — the well toned skin is wine red, it is neatly horned and ...

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LA GRANDE – What can cow-calf producers do to make their operations more successful? Jerry Lipsey has some suggestions. Make better cattle and better beef. Make accurate genetic decisions. Breed for ...

At 80 years old, Tony Thompson shows no sign of slowing down. With five decades of breeding behind him, Thompson's passion for cattle - particularly the Simmental breed - remains as strong as ever. On ...

Five cattle breed societies – Simmental, Salers, Charolais, Parthenaise and Blonde – are withdrawing Irish Cattle Breeding Federation (ICBF)Euro-star indices from sales catalogues. The Irish Simmental ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Beef researchers from several universities and industry experts will come together at Purdue University's Beck Agricultural Center for the American Simmental Cattle Conference ...

Frank Fitzpatrick raises Barzona cattle and has about 600 of them on his ranch in California. In high school, he did his senior project on Limousin and Simmental cattle, then started studying Jan ...

Behind every good bull is an even better cow, one that must jump through a lot of hoops - year in, year out - with as much data collected on her as possible. And these impressive cows are the priority ...

The Irish Limousin Cattle Society and Irish Dexter Society have become the latest to express concerns over Euro-star indices, joining the Simmental, Salers, Charolais, Parthenaise and Blonde societies ...