The aim was to lay the foundationandprovide the technicalbasis forimproving the localvarietiesofEbianflowercattle, advancing the meat production rate andpreservinggermplasm.
"The economy has driven the price of commodities up in the last five years, including the price of elite cattle, " says Joe Epperly from the North American Limousin Foundation, which monitors sales of the highly-muscled Limousin breed.
The former cattle rancher, Grateful Dead lyricist and founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation has been engaged in that battle for 25 years, longer than many of the young Internet users opposing the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) have been old enough to sit at a keyboard.