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<blockquote data-quote="robert" data-source="post: 674820" data-attributes="member: 9171"><p>Here's a scenario, take a large pharmaceutical company that is collecting everyones DNA, running tests and handing out 'stars' to the 'best' ones. So everyone samples their herd bull or their donor cow or some other 'outstanding' individual within their herd, send it to the company and they send you back your report, what does it tell you? Bugger all in the scheme of things. </p><p></p><p>HOWEVER, if you're the company and you have 1,000's of results on different sires and bloodlines you can collate a picture that no-one but the company sees. You, the company, can go out and 'source' or acquire those 'superior' genetics. </p><p></p><p>Next step is to do what the PIC group did with hogs, you bypass the purebred seedstock guy and go straight to the commercial operator, you supply synch drugs for pennies on the dollar, semen from your 'superior' bulls, a guaranteed outlet for the resulting progeny through 'designated' feedlots.</p><p></p><p>You, the company, never own a single cow, you have zero risk in management, you profit from selling the genetics and kill your major competition in the process. IF the technology results in, for example, the rate of unpaletable product going from 1 in 10 to 1 in 15 simply from the sires used that alone would be a greater improvement in beef quality than anything done in the last 30 years. </p><p></p><p>The company will own the beef business and eat your lunch at the same time, and it's already starting to happen.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="robert, post: 674820, member: 9171"] Here's a scenario, take a large pharmaceutical company that is collecting everyones DNA, running tests and handing out 'stars' to the 'best' ones. So everyone samples their herd bull or their donor cow or some other 'outstanding' individual within their herd, send it to the company and they send you back your report, what does it tell you? Bugger all in the scheme of things. HOWEVER, if you're the company and you have 1,000's of results on different sires and bloodlines you can collate a picture that no-one but the company sees. You, the company, can go out and 'source' or acquire those 'superior' genetics. Next step is to do what the PIC group did with hogs, you bypass the purebred seedstock guy and go straight to the commercial operator, you supply synch drugs for pennies on the dollar, semen from your 'superior' bulls, a guaranteed outlet for the resulting progeny through 'designated' feedlots. You, the company, never own a single cow, you have zero risk in management, you profit from selling the genetics and kill your major competition in the process. IF the technology results in, for example, the rate of unpaletable product going from 1 in 10 to 1 in 15 simply from the sires used that alone would be a greater improvement in beef quality than anything done in the last 30 years. The company will own the beef business and eat your lunch at the same time, and it's already starting to happen. [/QUOTE]
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