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Is Piedmontese ‘the beef of the future?’
There’s just one herd in Alberta, but rancher Peter DenOudsten says yield and taste give the Italian breed a big advantage
Reading Time: 4 minutes Peter DenOudsten never intended to become a Piedmontese cattle producer when he bought a few cows in the late ’80s to graze off some grassland he couldn’t crop. “I only had a few cows and it wasn’t worth having a bull around, so I just got Dad to artificially inseminate them with some beef semen […] Read more