Turn Every Breeding Decision into a Profit Opportunity
Beef x dairy strategies are a significant way to add value to your surplus calves and improve overall farm profitability. By taking a strategic approach to breeding beef sires to your dairy females, you create crossbred calves that are more marketable to buyers and feedlots, commanding higher prices than pure dairy bull calves. This approach also allows better use of reproductive tools like sexed semen, helping you focus and amplify genetic progress in your herd.
The Proven Way to Maximise Beef x Dairy Success
Alta BULLSEYE™: Precision Beef Sire Selection
Use data-driven genetic selection to match the best beef sires to your dairy herd, ensuring optimal fertility, calving ease, and premium calf performance.
The Beef x Dairy Advantage
Benefits:
Higher Calf Value & Market Demand
Beef x dairy calves sell for significantly more than dairy bull calves, giving producers higher, more predictable returns on each calf.
Optimised Breeding for Efficiency
Strategic beef sire selection ensures calving ease, fast-growing, uniform calves that appeal to beef buyers.
Balanced Dairy Herd Management
Beef semen is used on lower-genetic-merit cows, allowing dairy producers to prioritise their top cows for heifer replacements while still maximising revenue from the rest of the herd.
Optimise Your Beef x Dairy Strategy with a Custom Genetic Plan
Beef x dairy strategies create an irreplaceable opportunity for farmers to put £'s back into their operation, but only if the right sires are selected and balanced proportionately with generating dairy replacements. Take the guesswork out of managing heifer inventories and selecting the right sires by working with one of our trusted Alta advisors to create a custom genetic plan that meets the goals of your farm.
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