Uruguay: There was a record of cow pregnancies, according to the Gestation Workshop

The National Agricultural Research Institute (Inia) held its classic Diagnostic Evaluation Workshop, marking on this occasion a record pregnancy percentage: 84.1%, in a favorable climate context. Eng. Esteban Montes, coordinator of the Grupos Plan Program, in dialogue with Rurales El País, first highlighted the work that Inia has been doing, “it is very important to know how the hand comes in breeding livestock.” Regarding the percentage obtained, the member of the Agricultural Plan stated that “it was already expected that we could have a fairly high average pregnancy rate like the one that occurred,” he also recalled that in the environment “many failed cows entered, which had been declared as wintering cows last year, but finally they entered the herd again, we had already planned this because there was no good availability of pasture, and the business was not good for wintering either.” At a general level there were early pregnancies, which “is something interesting, it is ...