I did not know that you could buy (patented) cow semen that is sorted to guarantee to produce only female cattle. I have family that operate a small-ish farm wi

I did not know that you could buy (patented) cow semen that is sorted to guarantee to produce only female cattle. I have family that operate a small-ish farm with several hundred cows and they certainly do not use such technology. It just a matter of fact for them that female calves are worth significant more and half the time you get females and the other half you get males. I will somehow try mention this in passing to them, through I suspect they do not do use artificial insemination which is a required step for this technology. I also wonder if in the future chicken farms will apply this when the technology get more refined, the patents expires and the cost of artificial insemination is cheaper than wasting time and resources on eggs only to then kill half the offsprings.