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Illinois Beef Seed Stock Summit

Reid Blossom, Illinois Beef Association Executive Vice President

The director of the Illinois Beef Association says the state’s cattle producers can learn from those how have adopted very advanced reproductive technologies, “Like the use of sexed semen or IVF transfers, embryo transfer. And, the use of donors and embryo recips to greatly increase the number and consistency of these high quality animals on their farms in Illinois.”

Reid Blossom says workshops will focus on those technologies at this weekend’s Beef & Beyond Seedstock Summit in Champaign in cooperation with the University of Illinois.

AUDIO: Interview with Reid Blossom

 

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