breeding

A breakthrough on how avocado trees change sexes could cut years from the breeding cycle.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

Eric Gropper has about 350 breeding cows on around 8,000 acres of grassland in south-west South Dakota.

From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026

Those ships also carried supplies of fresh water for the monthslong voyage, stored in barrels fit for mosquito breeding.

From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2026

Large dogs die sooner than small ones, and Loyal’s theory is that breeding dogs to be very large has left some breeds with persistently high levels of IGF-1.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026

Did he think it through as carefully as he should have when he took a multi-million-dollar position on a method of breeding “super cattle” by hormone injection and embryonic implant?

From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger

Louise Leatherdale, owner and co-founder of Leatherdale Farms in Long Lake, Minn., which is considered among the best breeders of dressage horses, said she might charge as little as $2,000 for two breedings.

From New York Times ● May 4, 2018

From there, he landed a job selling stallion breedings for the famed Walmac Farm.

From New York Times ● Apr. 2, 2015

In his new home, Yankee Gentleman quickly jumped from about 30 breedings to 94, at $5,000 per time.

From Time ● Apr. 28, 2010

They were of all births and breedings, but almost all of them, like myself, under a cloud.

From Adela Cathcart, Volume 2 by MacDonald, George

If her breedings, her bitterness of spirit manifested themselves, it was in a fixed undertone of pessimism and in an occasional outburst of recklessness that bewildered her brother.

From Flowing Gold by Beach, Rex Ellingwood