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Improving dairy cattle fertility is focus of $3 million USDA grant

Mar 28, 2013
Mar 28, 2013

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PULLMAN, Wash. - In the 1980s, the conception rate in an average herd of dairy cows was around 50 percent; today that number has dropped to 35 percent. A team of scientists led by Washington State University's Tom Spencer is turning to advanced genomics technology to address what has become a challenging issue facing the dairy industry.

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