What happens when bison are crossed with beef cattle of any breed – beefalo of course.
Hybrid beefalo is growing in popularity because of consumer demand for leaner meat and it’s a cheaper alternative to bison meat, said Larry Hacker, who’s been raising the animals for more than two decades.
Hacker runs a beefalo breeding operation on the Done Rovin’ Beefalo Farm about two miles southwest of Lincoln. He and wife Nelda settled there after a 28-year military career that included a term in Vietnam and seven years in Europe.
With about 60 cow-calf pairs, Hacker’s registered beefalo herd is having a hard time keeping up with the orders he gets for both breeding stock and processed beefalo …
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