Article ID: CBB035744952

North American Beef Breeding and the Modernization of the International Cattle Breeding Industries, 1950–2000 (2022)

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This article deals with transformations in beef cattle breeding practices in North America from 1950 to 2000, 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 between 1950 and 2000, 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.

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Authors & Contributors
Grasseni, Cristina
Arnold, David
Derry, Margaret Elsinor
Marcus, Alan I.
Novick, Tamar
Slavin, Philip
Journals
Technology and Culture
Agricultural History
Economic History Review
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History
Publishers
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT
Louisiana State University Press
Oxford University Press
University of Nebraska Press
University of Oklahoma Press
University of Toronto Press
Concepts
Cattle
Agriculture
Dairy industry
Breeding
Animals
Veterinary medicine
People
Byrd, Richard Evelyn (1888-1957)
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
20th century, late
20th century, early
14th century
21st century
Places
North America
United States
Great Britain
Italy
India
Colorado (U.S.)
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