The State of the Dexter Weekly
Dexter is a global breed reported in a dozen languages, and almost nobody reads all of them. Every Monday we do that reading for you: the week's most important news out of Australia, the Americas and Europe, written up as a single editor's letter — plus where the genetics market actually sits, what's newly listed, and the sales that broke records.
It arrives in your language. Choose English, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Japanese or Chinese and the letter is written for you in that language.
What's in every edition
What actually mattered this week, and why — drawn from every headline we tracked, not just the English ones.
The top stories by region, with the non-English trade press translated.
The Dexter genetics price index and the beef market side by side.
The newest semen, embryo and cloning-rights listings.
The sales that set new marks, anywhere in the world.
Prefer to browse? The same reporting lives on Dexter Wire, and the market data behind it on Market Data.
Every past edition
Nothing goes out and disappears. Every letter we've sent is here to read in full — the market where it stood that week, the stories that mattered, and the sales that set the marks.
Newly listed semen this week showed a median asking price of $75 per straw across five priced listings. The figure is a snapshot of the current week’s seller pricing and does not reference p…
The Roundup logged 3 new listings this week from 3 seller sites across 2 countries, with the median asking price for a straw of semen at $45. The Dexter market board Semen · middle asking pr…
This week’s market saw three new listings, a decline from twenty listings recorded the previous week. The listings originated from two seller sites within a single country and consist solely…
This week the AU NI Dexter Cattle Group held a farm walk. Breeders toured the main ranch to review herd health and management. Attendees observed the group’s breeding strategies and daily op…
This week, 32 new semen listings arrived from seven seller platforms in three countries. The majority came from the United States (26 listings), with three each from the United Kingdom and C…
Ninety‑three new semen listings appeared on DexterTank.com this week, a total of 123 listings, up from 32 last week. The 123 listings come from 9 seller sites in 3 countries. Among the 97 pr…
Thirty‑two new listings appeared in the marketplace this week, down from 35 last week. They came from seven different seller sites across four countries and include two embryo packages and t…
This week the Dexter marketplace saw 35 new listings from 9 seller sites across 3 countries, down from 38 last week. The inventory consisted of 1 embryo and 34 semen samples. Among the 29 pr…
This week there were 38 newly listed Dexter steers and heifers, down from 44 the previous week. The new inventory comes from seven seller sites across three countries. The listings break dow…
This week there were 44 new listings from 8 seller sites across 3 countries, down from 79 the previous week. The mix included 36 semen and 8 embryos. Median asking price per straw for newly…
79 new listings appeared this week out of 12 seller sites in six countries, down from 106 the previous week. The inventory shift shows 74 semen listings and 5 embryos. Median asking price fo…
The Roundup logged 106 new listings this week from 12 seller sites across 4 countries, with the median asking price for a straw of semen at $78. 📈 The week in numbers 106 new listings found…
This week 98 new listings were added to the marketplace from 13 seller sites across six countries, a decline from 101 the prior week. The new inventory included 74 semen lots and 24 embryos.…
The week saw 101 new listings across 12 seller sites from four countries, down from 151 the week before. There are 94 semen and 7 embryo listings. Among the 69 priced semen, the median askin…
151 new listings appeared this week, totaling 151 across 12 seller sites in five countries—an increase from 102 the week before. The activity came from the United States (73 listings) and th…
102 new listings appeared this week, down from 253 the prior week, across 13 seller sites in the USA, UK and Canada. The batch contains 19 embryo listings and 83 semen listings. Among the pr…
Cows have been brought in to help restore Oxfordshire’s rarest habitat, a unique project to bring livestock into one of the county’s most protected sites. The livestock work to move seed and…