I first came across a breed of cattle known as Fleckvieh when I was in vet school. It has several positive attributes but what stood out for me is the fact that it is a dual purpose breed. Though this ...

But Colac region farmer Luke McCarthy hopes to change that as a keen exponent of the red-and-white breed for the past decade. Pronounced ‘fleck-fee’, McCarthy family now joins 100 per cent of their ...

The amount of beef and milk that is produced in China is likely to increase, and to be of better quality, thanks to a gene that has come all the way from Germany. The gene is part and parcel of a ...

ELKADER, Iowa — Tucked into the hills on Gunder Road north of Elkader, Jerry and Wanda Brink and Jerry’s brothers, Jim and George, and their families raise purebred Fleckvieh Simmental and Hereford ...

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Cattle. Gerard Besseling intends to crossbreed the cattle with other locally available exotic breeds. Efforts by a German firm to penetrate the African cattle market with its exotic breeds will bear ...

Michael Cooper has expanded his enterprise by buying three blocks of land, building new sheds and a parlour, and importing Fleckviehs – after discovering the breed on YouTube while waiting on a cow to ...