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Archive Home > 2009 > September > 29 > Already too much milk, soon even more cows to be milked

Already too much milk, soon even more cows to be milked

By William Neuman / The Bulletin
September 29, 2009

HANFORD, Calif. — Three years ago, a technological breakthrough gave dairy farmers the chance to bend a basic rule of nature: no longer would their cows have to give birth to equal numbers of female and male offspring. Instead, using a high-technology method to sort the sperm of dairy bulls,....

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