EFFECTS OF BEEF SEMEN AND BEEF EMBRYO STRATEGIES ON PROFITABILITY: Economics of using beef semen and beef in vitro produced embryo transfer in Jersey herds

Dairy herds have adopted sexed semen (SS) and beef semen (BS) to control heifer inventory and increase calf sales revenue. Beef in vitro-produced embryo transfer (beef IVP-ET) may be an alternative to increase calf sales revenue. Besides, raising those Jersey beef cross- bred and/or pure beef animals in a dairy system may be a new source of revenue. We aimed to evaluate breed strategies combining dairy conventional semen (CS), SS, BS, and beef IVP-ET on herd dynamics and prof- itability by...