Abstract:In order to further study the effect of in vitro embryo production and transplantation in Simmental cattle,and to effectively improve the efficiency of excellent core group of cows,and to quickly solve the problems of small number of excellent core breeding groups and insufficient supply of high-quality breeding sources.In provincial Simmental beef cattle breeding farm in Wuwei city,15 excellent core group donors aged 1-2 years were selected,and their oocytes extracted by ultrasound-guided follicle puncture(OPU) in different seasons.The oocytes were then subjected to in vitro fertilization(IVF),in vitro culture,and cryopreservation.The data at each stage were analyzed.The results showed that after optimization,the OPU-IVF process could collect average of 17.58 oocytes per donor,with a cleavage rate of 69.67% after in vitro fertilization,and aocyst rate of 36.19%.Each donor could produce an average of 3.75 OPU-IVF embryos,and the pregnancy rate after embryo transplantation was 53.37%.This study concluded that the success rate of in vitro embryo production and transplantation in Simmental cattle is affected by various,such as the age of the donor cows,nutritional status,hormone treatment plan,laboratory environmental conditions,in vitro culture,cryopreservation,and transplantation environment In Northwest China,the collection of oocytes from live Simmental cattle should be carried out in spring and autumn,with significantly better results than in winter(P<0.5),which may be related to the climate conditions and the physiological cycle of the beef cattle.