Beef on Dairy: a strategy that is reshaping dairy farming

Optimise your herd with Swissgenetics: high performing and sustainable genetics for Beef on Dairy.

Beef on Dairy is anything but just another fad. It is a seismic shift that is redefining the sector. Around the world dairy farmers are adopting this approach because it creates value where there was little before. Male calves from beef sires on dairy cows now have a genuine market with better prices, while top index females are safeguarded through the use of seleXYon doses. The result is clearer herd management, improved margins, and faster genetic progress.

What a successful Beef on Dairy programme needs

This approach works when it follows a precise method. First, secure fertility and easy calving to ensure reproduction remains on schedule. Next, focus on carcase profiles that meet supply chain demands, with rapid growth, good muscling, and fat cover. Finally, manage replacement by using seleXYon on the best animals thereby avoiding an oversupply of heifers and focussing progress where it matters.

The Swissgenetics toolbox: breeds and technical strengths

This is where Swissgenetics makes the difference. With more than twenty-five years of Beef on Dairy experience, we offer a portfolio of beef breed sires that are rigorously measured and ranked. Each bull is assessed on at least five hundred first inseminations producing dependable results for fertility, calving and carcase performance. In Switzerland, this strategy has proved itself. Today almost one in two inseminations in dairy herds uses beef breed semen.

Our breeds

• 🔗Angus:
  • Naturally polled and docile
  • Excellent forage conversion
  • Meat with strong consumer appeal
  • Suited to extensive systems
• 🔗Limousin:
  • Fine bone
  • High dressing percentage
  • Easy calving
  • Ideal for semi-intensive systems
• 🔗Simmental (beef):
  • High average daily gain
  • Carcase conformation and quality
  • Excellent use of roughage
  • Well adapted to grazing even in tough conditions
• 🔗Original Braunvieh (beef):
  • Robust and resilient
  • One hundred percent pure Swiss origin
  • Suitable for finishing at any age
  • Bred for harsh conditions, including very wet or very dry regions, with dark pigmentation, thick skin and strong feet and legs

In short

Beyond figures and indexes, Swissgenetics is guided by a sustainable vision. We follow this approach by offering farmers genetics built to last and aligned with the needs of the supply chain.

Beef on Dairy is not only a business opportunity. It is a way to build a more resilient and coherent herd that is better connected to the market. With its experience and tools, Swissgenetics supports farmers through this transition and opens the way to more profitable, more sustainable production from one generation to the next.

Discuss a Beef on Dairy plan with your Swissgenetics adviser, tailored to your market and to your herd goals. Carcases, cash flow, replacement.