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It would result in better control of the gene pool and the timing of the births for more consistent products (calves).

It get way more complicated and detailed than that and would require a lot of research. It's more common in dairy cattle because of how dangerous the bull can be to cows/heifers as well as staff. More than controlling the gene pool it is also the fact of being able to utilize sperm to fertilize more cows and thus reducing the amount of bulls needed, such as 1 bull can sire up to 60 cows as for a bulls semen collection can be inseminated to more than 120 which is more than double. This reduces farmers need to keep more bulls and reducing their profit from feeding. There are many reason to AI so do research all the reasons even your local cattlemen inseminate.

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