Abstract
Beef-on-dairy (BOD) cattle constitute a meaningful and growing percentage of North American fed beef production. The transition to BOD programs by dairy producers has been facilitated in part by sexed semen technologies, which may ultimately result in over 3.5 million BOD cattle entering the US fed beef supply on an annual basis. This class of cattle presents unique opportunities for vertical alignment of the value chain, but packer concerns remain about carcass conformation and consistency as well as liver abscess rates and precocious lactation in BOD heifers. The future of BOD production will hinge on participants’ ability to efficiently distribute data and the associated value up and down the BOD value chain.
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