A team of animal scientists from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is set to deliver a potential game changer for subsistence farmers in Tanzania -- cows that produce as much as 20 times the milk of indigenous breeds.
Climate-smart cows could deliver more milk
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A Girolando calf is on display. The research team plans to implant 100 half-blood Holstein-Gyr or Jersey-Gyr embryos into indigenous cattle in two Tanzanian locations this March.
Recipient cows graze at Taliri near Mt. Kilimanjaro, Tanzania.
Matt Wheeler stands with calves.
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