"Farmers use bull semen to inseminate cows"

Uh, why is this a story? Anyone who has grown up anywhere near a farm or ranch knows that people have been using artificial insemination on domesticated animals for a long time. How long? The article even tells us:

Matt Schultz, a herdsman at B & B, said the farm has used artificial insemination since 1987. ...

Evidence shows one of the first uses of artificial insemination dates back to the Arabs in the 14th century .... The first official use was in Italian dogs in 1780.

Rutgers University in New Jersey formed the first commercial artificial insemination organization in the U.S. around 1938.

That's a long time to get around to writing a news story about it. Poor Carrie Antlfinger, Associated Press Writer. She must have really pissed someone off to get assigned this yawner. But, she did manage to work in a gem of a quote:

Back at B & B Dairy, Schultz said the cows seem to know Ken Montsma, the artificial insemination technician for Accelerated Genetics, one of the insemination companies.

"Kenny comes in and it's like they come and find him," Schultz said.

Heh. Maybe they find him first.