By Lloyd Phillips
South Africans familiar with the European Bos taurus dairy cattle breeds commonly found on our country’s commercial dairy farms, will likely find this introduction to Brazil’s Bos indicus Gir/Gyr dairy cattle intriguing and educational.
Over the past forty years, Brazilian breeders have significantly improved this latter breed that was originally imported from India by three-month ship voyage.
These breeders’ intentions, which are being successfully and remarkably achieved, are to have an ever-improving cow for consistently profitable commercial milk production in tropical and sub-tropical climates and in even the most challenging production environments.
Watch this video to learn more about all the opportunities this what might arguably be the world’s toughest commercial dairy cow, could hold for milk production in South Africa and beyond.
