“North American Beef Breeding and the Modernization of the International Cattle Breeding Industries, 1950^–₅₀2000_24ya”, Margaret E. Derry2022-05 (breeding)⁠:

This article deals with transformations in beef cattle breeding practices in North America 1950^–₅₀2000_24ya, and the implication of these changes across the Western world.

It was a period of profound adjustment for beef cattle breeders, involving battles over genetic defects, the importation of new breeds, changing standards in relation to husbandry, and the extension of quantitative genetic breeding practices. These innovations would be echoed across Europe in the production of beef cattle and would also interact with the way dairy cattle were bred.

This article explains the upheaval in beef breeding 1950^–₅₀2000_24ya, as well as how that upheaval affected dairy cattle breeding.

Changes in beef breeding, in effect, modified the functioning of the entire cattle breeding world.

• The Rise of Dwarfism in North America

• Dwarfism and the North American Importation Movement

• Reaction to Dwarfism by North American Shorthorn, Angus, and Hereford Breeders, 1960–80

• The Fortunes of North American Shorthorn, Angus, and Hereford Breeds in Relation to the “Exotic” Breeds, 1980^–₂₀2000_24ya

• The Viability of Quantitative Genetics in International Dairy Cattle Breeding

• The Viability of Quantitative Genetics in North American Beef Cattle Breeding

• The North American Beef Cattle Situation and the British Beef Industry, 1940^–₆₀2000_24ya

• Holsteinization of International Dairy Herds and Specialization in International Beef Breeding, 1960^–₄₀2000_24ya

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