World’s Most expensive cow sold for $4 Million in Brazil.
Supercow Viatina-19 FIV Mara Movéis is ranked the world most expensive cow to be sold for $4 Million by aution in Brazil.
The Cow, Mara, according to the Guinness Book of World Records, was sold for $4.2 million on July 1, 2023 in Brazil. Her sale price is three times more than the last record holder’s price.
She’s twice as heavy as the average adult her breed, weighing over 2,400 pounds (1,100 kilograms),
Brazil is vested in spending heavily on rearing of cows and development of the cattle industry, which is its economy’s major source of incomes from export products.
Brazil is ranked as the world’s top exporter of beef. The price of the sold cow valued at $4 million cow factors in years of breeding and other things.
High-profile cattle auctions, with major price tags, turn prizewinners into shared investments for wealthy ranchers. These titans of the meat industry are playing a genetic lottery, harvesting eggs and semen from champions.
The goal of these tactics is to create embryos to be implanted in surrogate mothers, in hopes of birthing the next generation of super cows,
“We’re not slaughtering elite cattle. We’re breeding them. And at the end of the line, going to feed the whole world,” one of Viatina’s owners, Ney Pereira, told AP News. “I think Viatina will provide that.”
According to Lorrany Martins, a veterinarian and Pereira’s daughter, the massive amount is based on a trifecta of three desirable traits: rapid muscle growth, exceptional fertility and the consistent ability to pass these qualities on to her calves.
Again other factors that may determine the value of such expensive cows at an auction, as was mentioned earlier within this report, include the cow’s beauty, maternal ability or fertility, value posture, hoof solidity, docility, posture etc.
Martins also said breeders are willing to pay an eye-popping $250,000 to collect Viatina-19’s egg cells.
“She is the closest to perfection that has been attained so far,” Martins said. “She’s a complete cow, has all the characteristics that all the proprietors are looking for.”
Beef cows cost between $2,500-$3,000 and are bred for meat production. Meanwhile, a dairy cow costs an estimated $900-$3,000, said Oann.
