Inside An AI Facility

Des Moines Register:

But Trans Ova has been artificially inseminating cows and transferring embryos over the past 30 years, and the processes are fascinating.
In a plain metal building across a gravel parking lot from the company’s main office, veterinarian Paul Van Roekel watches an ultrasound monitor and reaches deep into a cow with a white plastic vacuum tube to suck out eggs for fertilization. The eggs are the result of a “super-ovulation” procedure and are sucked through a tube into a cup before being taken to a room where young women in white lab coats sort them under a microscope, selecting the highest quality eggs and discarding the dubious.
Meanwhile, in another lab, a machine sorts millions of sperm cells per minute. That’s after vets collect the sperm from bulls in what can only be described as a touchy last-second intervention moments before ejaculation. (video here, this is my definition of a bad job)
The machine can tell the difference in size between an X and Y chromosome and puts an electrical charge on the female X chromosome sperm cells. When the semen shoots out a tiny spigot, an electromagnet pulls the charged sperm sideways into a separate cup. The final product is marketed to dairy farmers who gladly pay for semen that promises a 93 percent chance of producing females.

The sex-selected semen is pretty pricey, and with my low rate of success for AI, just didn't seem worthwhile for my hobby operation.