Dairy production update at BSAS meeting

While milk output potential of the dairy cow has improved enormously through breeding, this has been at a cost of lowered reproduction performance. At the British Society of Animal Science meeting held in Southport recently, this issue was addressed through attention to nutritional strategies. The first challenge in dairy nutrition and fertility research is try to reverse the issue of the dramatic decline in reproductive performance. Between 1975 and 1982, pregnancy rates to first service were