Artificial insemination (AI) proved to be the answer for this beef producer when his herd was badly hit by disease. When trichomoniasis infected his herd, Peter Schoeman's calving rate plummeted and he thought he might have to abandon his commercial beef enterprise.
Trichomonas is a parasite transmitted during coitus as a true venereal infection from bull to cow and vice versa. If the cow falls pregnant, the foetus