At the 2003 Range Beef Cow Symposium researchers shared the following statistic for the increase in production from the “Average Levels of Heterosis for Traits in Beef Cattle.”

Cattle with Hybrid Vigor or heterosis are more efficient, and the cows stay in production 38% longer with a 25% increase in lifetime productivity. 

This is a huge economic advantage in favor of the crossbred  cow and a Herdmaster bull allows you to maintain that advantage.

Crossbred females reach puberty sooner and breed earlier in the breeding season then their purebred counterparts.

Cross-bred cows on average are one score higher in body condition then their purebred counterparts.