The Future of A.I.

Abstract

Artificial insemination of all species has a future of continual expansion and enlargement from what we have today. Since this is a "bovine practitioner" conference, we will confine our thoughts of the future to the bovine species. The first 35 years of progress have provided a firm foundation on which future changes and improvements can be made. The relatively new science of cryobiology will make possible the storage of germ plasm in different ways than we know today. The only reason for A.I. and its main objective is bringing about genetic improvement of larger numbers of herds than can be accomplished by natural service, due to the relatively limited number of females that can be mated to the few - genetically superior males. Here is what I see as some of the developments.