James has noted that he finds the Simmental breed to be future fit in his relatively low input, high output system. He farms 100 acres of grassland, where he aims to turn out cows and calves as soon ...

The Simmental or Swiss Fleckvieh is reddish in colour with white markings, and is kept for milk and meat. There he was: The gorgeous beast — the well toned skin is wine red, it is neatly horned and ...

SIMMENTAL breeders have been following a breed quality improvement strategy and, according to their society, have clearly repositioned the breed as a beef breed with a major contribution to play in ...

Part-time suckler farmer Dr John Hession has travelled the world to establish his internationally renowned pedigree polled Simmental herd, importing semen from Australia and selling embryos as far ...

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Frank Fitzpatrick raises Barzona cattle and has about 600 of them on his ranch in California. In high school, he did his senior project on Limousin and Simmental cattle, then started studying Jan ...