Genetics — Thai Beef at Its Finest

Ben Cunningham inspecting a Brahman bull at a partner ranch in Thailand

Ben, still hands-on with the genetics he brought over

Where the bloodline comes from

Semen. Embryos. Entire shuttle flights.

For more than a decade, Ben's business — Thai-Tex Cattle Exporters — moved Brahman genetics from Texas into Thailand three ways: frozen semen, embryo transfer, and, for the highest-value animals, entire shuttle flights of live cattle.

It's the same category of work operations like YZ-International Livestock run between their Texas and Thailand locations: matching Texas-proven Brahman bloodlines to Thai herds, so the genetics — not just the paperwork — actually cross the ocean.

A Brahman animal raised from imported genetics at a partner ranch in Thailand

One of the herds carrying Ben's imported bloodlines

A herd, by relationship

Ben used to raise it himself. Now partner ranches do.

Ben is retired from day-to-day ranch work. He doesn't own the herd anymore — a network of partner ranches across Isan villages does, ranches he personally worked with for years, teaching the same herd-management lessons he learned growing up in Texas.

When an animal from one of those herds is ready for harvest, Ploy pays the ranch directly, in cash. There's no long supply contract standing between the family that raised the animal and the family that sells it — just a relationship Ben built one visit at a time.

Two countries, one bloodline

Texas taught it. Isan raises it.

The lesson didn't change when it crossed the ocean — only the accent it's spoken in.

Ben and Ploy Cunningham with a Brahman bull

Ben & Ploy, with the bloodline

Ben Cunningham walking his son past a Brahman animal

Teaching it to the next generation

One of the Cunningham sons standing on the back of a Brahman animal

Future cattlemen, in training

The genetics.

Semen. Embryos. Entire shuttle flights.

Ben used to raise it himself. Now partner ranches do.

Texas taught it. Isan raises it.

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