{"id":6270,"date":"2015-01-15T15:55:06","date_gmt":"2015-01-15T22:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=6270"},"modified":"2015-01-19T16:00:29","modified_gmt":"2015-01-19T23:00:29","slug":"the-super-bull","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2015\/01\/15\/the-super-bull\/","title":{"rendered":"The Super Bull"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/a-breeder-apart-the-bull-who-sired-500-000-offspring-is-gone-1421196530\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from The Wall Street Journal<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>A Breeder Apart: Farmers Say Goodbye to the Bull Who Sired 500,000 Offspring<\/h1>\n<p><b>Fans Commemorate \u2018Toystory,\u2019 a Dairy Legend With a Ravenous Libido<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Toystory, a Wisconsin bull who set a record for semen production, was 2,700 pounds and...\" src=\"http:\/\/si.wsj.net\/public\/resources\/images\/BN-GK580_TOYSTO_J_20150113152128.jpg\" alt=\"Toystory, a Wisconsin bull who set a record for semen production, was 2,700 pounds and sired an estimated 500,000 offspring. The famed bull died on Thanksgiving.\" width=\"480\" height=\"auto\" \/><em>Toystory, a Wisconsin bull who set a record for semen production, was 2,700 pounds and sired an estimated 500,000 offspring. The famed bull died on Thanksgiving. GENEX<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>by MARK PETERS and ILAN BRAT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>SHAWANO, Wis.\u2014Atop a wooded hill here in the heart of America\u2019s Dairyland, an industry legend was recently laid to rest.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t some milk magnate or a famed innovator, but an ornery, 2,700-pound bull named Toystory\u2014a titan of artificial insemination who sired an estimated 500,000 offspring in more than 50 countries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was a dream bull,\u201d said Jan Hessel Bierma, editor in chief of dairy-breeding magazine Holstein International.<\/p>\n<p>In the increasingly high-tech world of cow reproduction, a top bull\u2019s career tends to last just a few years as farmers chase better genetics to boost milk output and animal durability, playing a numbers game not unlike a Major League Baseball manager.<\/p>\n<p>Rare is the bull with the genes and testicular fortitude to sell a million units of semen, known among breeders as the millionaires club.<\/p>\n<p>Over nearly a decade, Toystory shattered the record for sales of the slender straws that hold about 1\/20th of a teaspoon and are shipped using liquid nitrogen to farmers around the world. A unit fetches anywhere from a few dollars to several hundred.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/a-breeder-apart-the-bull-who-sired-500-000-offspring-is-gone-1421196530\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at WSJ.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Wall Street Journal A Breeder Apart: Farmers Say Goodbye to the Bull Who Sired 500,000 Offspring Fans Commemorate \u2018Toystory,\u2019 a Dairy Legend With a Ravenous Libido Toystory, a Wisconsin bull who set a record for semen production, was 2,700 pounds and sired an estimated 500,000 offspring. The famed bull died on Thanksgiving. GENEX [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mirth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}