There are several large operations that AI each year, commercial and registered. Lots of outfits in Idaho, Utah, Nevada, Oregon, Montana, California, Washington are using AI on all of their heifers each year to get accurate calving ease sires. This allows for alot of these females to marketable in large loads and allows top of the line genetics to be added to your herd. A guy not far from us bought 800 heifers last fall, ran them for the winter and Ai'd the whole bunch last fall. He averaged $1,200 on 600 this spring on the Western Video Market. Profitable, probably, but it was alot of work.
There is no way that you can say AI is not profitable in some sort. It may not be just the dollars, but you are also adding genetics to your herd from the best bulls available.
There is no way that you can say AI is not profitable in some sort. It may not be just the dollars, but you are also adding genetics to your herd from the best bulls available.