Dairy crossbreeding challenges the French dairy cattle sociotechnical regime
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Crossbreeding helps reduce animal production by alleviating reproductive problems of Holsteins, allowing better valorisation of veal calves, and giving cows more aptitude for grazing.
“Crossbreeding helps reduce animal production (Magne and Quénon 2021): it alleviates the reproductive problems of Holsteins, allows better valorisation of veal calves, and gives cows more aptitude for grazing 'to fatten outside.../...and to eat woody plants' (C4).”
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Section 3.1 describes crossbreeding as a way to address poor fertility in purebred cows and adapt cows to grassland-based farming. It does not say crossbreeding reduces animal production; it reports potential benefits without significant negative effects on milk production. Sections 3.1 and 3.3.1 report low economic returns for some crossbred calves, rather than better valorisation of veal calves. (LLM, conf=0.88)
Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredFor three farmers, taking advantage of grass to feed their cattle was made possible by modifying the genetics of their herd through crossbreeding (A3, B3, D1), a technique described by Magne and Quénon (2021).
“For three farmers, taking advantage of grass to feed their cattle was made possible by modifying the genetics of their herd through crossbreeding (A3, B3, D1) a technique described by Magne and Quénon (2021).”
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- Authors
- Magne, M.-A., & Quénon, J.
- Affiliations
- Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse (FR)
- Corresponding author
- Magne, Marie-Angélina
- Venue
- Agronomy for Sustainable Development
- Published
- 2021-03-24
- Volume
- 41
- Issue
- 2
- ISSN
- 1773-0155 (ISSN-L)
- 1774-0746
- OpenAlex
- W3138195265
- Cited by
- 19
- References
- 3
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 4 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 7 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 2
- FWCI
- 2.65
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Agronomy for Sustainable Development (publishedVersion)
- HAL (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR-13-AGRO-0006)
- PSDR (ATA-RI)
- INRAe (Department ACT)
- Region Occitanie
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics › Agriculture and Rural Development Research
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Agronomy and Crop Science › Livestock Farming and Management
- Keywords
- rotational crossbreeding, dairy cattle, socio-technical regimes, pure breeding, dairy farmers, France
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