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New blood test offers preg-check option

By Cathy Roemer, Dairy Monthly correspondent
May 24, 2005
May 24, 2005

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JEROME, Idaho — Affordable and accurate: two key words dairy and beef producers like to hear when it comes to pregnancy testing cattle. Confirmed pregnancies mean increased production, and that translates into business profits

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