As America’s beef cow herd hits a 75-year low, dairy farmers are stepping in with beef-on-dairy calves to help fill feedlots ...

Students from Perry Lower Intermediate School have adopted a calf named Olive for this school year. Olive recently won a national competition called "Most Kissable Calf." PERRY TWP. — Maggie Pringle ...

Almost everyone in the cattle business knows these two things: (1) the feeder cattle market has demonstrated tremendous strength in reaching and sustaining record price levels during the past year, ...

Beef-on-dairy crossbreeding is the latest step in the evolution of dairy genetics and is now a key driver of the U.S. supply of both beef and dairy cattle. Some 72% of dairy farms are now ...

But it all starts with dogs and their wild cousins, which are definitive hosts for neospora. After a dog eats infected placenta or aborted fetuses, oocysts are shed in their feces, which, when ...

Tight cattle supplies, delayed herd rebuilding and resilient beef demand point to continued market strength, with economists ...

At most, traditional dairy farms calves are separated from their mothers within 24 hours of their birth. It allows farmers to collect the milk that the calves would naturally drink and sell it to be ...

Where’s the rib-eye? Someday soon it might be grazing on a dairy farm. Meat from dairy cows, rarely valued in American kitchens and restaurants, usually becomes dog food and fast-food burgers. The ...

Austin Allred, owner of Washington’s Royal Family Farming, gets the connection between cows and the land. “Cows have an incredible relationship with soil when handled correctly,” he says. “This ...

As scientists continue to explore the wide-ranging effects of heat stress on the health of dairy cattle, a new study by researchers from the University of Florida, published in the September issue of ...