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Claiborne County hosts Bovine Artificial Insemination Course
In mid-August the UT/TSU Cooperative Extension’s Claiborne County Extension Office participated in an important, informative course on bovine artificial insemination. The two-day bovine artificial insemination course was taught by ABS Global technicians and hosted by UT/TSU Claiborne County Extension and Lee County Virginia Tech Extension. Each morning of the event started at the Wilderness Road State Park in Ewing, Virginia with classroom education and practicing on reproductive tracts. In the afternoons the group traveled to a local farm for participants to practice artificial insemination on cull cows.
This event aimed to get producers certified in artificial insemination to help improve their herd genetics and increase their profits when selling calves. This is the third year UT/TSU Extension has taken part in this course that is limited to 16 participants. TSU Extension Agent Jennifer Gilbert was brought in on the project because, since 1999, she’s been a Certified Artificial Insemination Technician. The event is open to anyone in Tennessee and Virginia, not just Claiborne and Lee Counties. Great job Jennifer!
