Forty years in the field: reproductive biotechnologies shaping genetic progress in cattle in France
Serge Lacaze · 2026
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Serge Lacaze reflects on forty years of cattle breeding technology in France in a 2026 perspective piece. As a field leader at a cooperative serving tens of thousands of farmers, he watched embryo tools reshape herds. Import curbs on live animals, driven by disease fears, pushed France to grow its own embryo skill.
Methods grew from basic embryo transfer to egg pickup, lab-grown embryos, sexing, and gene checks of embryos before placement. Gene reading raised the worth of fast breeding from elite cows. Training, teamwork, and farmer trust, he stresses, mattered as much as the gear. The piece is a career-spanning field memoir.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Serge Lacaze |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 40 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |