muffy;916878 wrote:"It's big business. You can go to a trade school and in 9 months be a certified herd inseminator and make $50-100k per year. " really? My dad did this for several years and never came close to that income - not even close. Yeah, he probably should have demanded payment up front, but back then "a man's word was his bond" and they would promise to pay and didn't -so they calf became my dad's property. That really didn't pay our bills. My dad worked for Curtis out of Chicago (they also, at that time, owned Butterfinger and Baby Ruth candy bars). I used to go along with my dad on trips to inseminate. We ended up, even though we didn't live on a farm, showing some of the calves in 4-H. Maybe today you could make that kind of money inseminating but I doubt it. My dad worked NC Ohio: Crawford, Wynadott, Seneca, Richalnd, Marion, Delaware counties, etc...
You definitely can these days. The market is much different than it used to be. A lot of farms are solely doing this these days, with very high quality semen.