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Artificial breeding

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Artificial breeding

This early artificial insemination equipment is rudimentary compared with the equipment available today. However, the basic approach still applies, and has been responsible for major increases in dairy production.

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Hugh Stringleman and Frank Scrimgeour, Dairying and dairy products – Breed improvement, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/15711/artificial-breeding (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Hugh Stringleman and Frank Scrimgeour, published 1 March 2009.