50 points!! please don't copy from the internet -- (as long as you can) As technology continues to advance in our lives, it also continues to advance in the livestock and animal industry. Research a new reproductive technique that is used for livestock animals. Study how effective the technique is and how it can benefit or harm animal producers. Write a one page paper over your findings. Please talk about the technology you have researched; how it works, when it was developed, who it is used by, what species it is used on, and how it is or is not beneficial to producers.

Artificial insemination (AI) has been used to obtain offspring from genetically superior males for more than 200 years. Improvements in methods to cryopreserve (freeze) and store semen have made AI accessible to more livestock producers. In the same manner as cryopreservation of semen, embryo freezing allowed for the global commercialization of animals with high genetic qualities. Semen from bulls is especially amenable to freezing and long-term storage. In the dairy industry, where large numbers of dairy cows are managed intensely, AI is simple, economical, and successful. More than 60 percent of dairy cows in the United States are bred by AI. However, the situation is different for beef cattle, where breeding populations are usually maintained on range or pasture conditions. In the United States beef industry, AI accounts for less than 5 percent of inseminations. For reasons that are not yet well understood, it is more difficult to freeze and store semen from other livestock species, including horses, pigs, and poultry, than it is to freeze cattle semen. NIFA has supported research projects to understand the physiological processes associated with cryopreservation of semen or embryos and to develop improved methods of cryopreservation for gametes (eggs and sperm) and embryos from several livestock species.

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