Leroy,Minnesota: Police are investigating the theft of about $70,000 worth of bull semen from a farm in southern Minnesota. Mower (MOH’-ur) County Sheriff Terese Amazi (AM’-uh-zye) says a LeRoy man reported Tuesday that a storage canister with vials of bull semen was taken from his unlocked barn.
The theft happened sometime between April 1 and 7. The man said the only time he and his hired hand were away from the farm was on Easter Sunday. The Austin Daily Herald reports the canister was worth about $500, and the vials of semen were worth from $300 to $1,500 apiece. Agriculture teacher Linnay Yarger explained to the station that a lot of farmers used artificial insemination to increase genetic diversity within their herds. The value of the semen depended on the quality of the bull it came from, she said.
