She's the world's most expensive cow, and part of Brazil's plan to put beef on everyone's plate

AP via Yahoo ^ | June 4th, 2024 | DAVID BILLER

[Mariner]

UBERABA, Brazil (AP) — Brazil has hundreds of millions of cows, but one in particular is extraordinary. Her massive, snow-white body is watched over by security cameras, a veterinarian and an armed guard.

Worth $4 million, Viatina-19 FIV Mara Movéis is the most expensive cow ever sold at auction, according to Guinness World Records. That’s three times more than the last recordholder’s price. And — at 1,100 kilograms (more than 2,400 pounds) — she’s twice as heavy as an average adult of her breed.

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But some ranchers wouldn’t even want a big herd of her clones. High-maintenance cows like Viatina-19 aren’t profitable on a commercial scale because they couldn’t meet their energy needs from grass alone, said P.J. Budler, a cattle judge and international business manager for Trans Ova Genetics, an Iowa-based company focused on improving the bovine gene pool.

[jjotto]

Corn is a very limited supplement for horses, and cows, for that matter. Pigs and poultry thrive on high percentage of corn.

[monkeyshine]

Calves were probably fattened with milk.

[Mariner]

Corn has to be introduced slowly to cattle or you will kill them.

It’s a traditional skill.

[Clutch Martin]

Mickey D’s used to import beef from South America I think they still do, it might have been Brazil... they imported a lot of beef. Here’s the kicker.. the beef producer that they bought the beef from was a Rockefeller.

[ridesthemiles]

NOT REALLY

[clearcarbon]

"She's the world's most expensive cow"