Good heifers are the future of a dairy, so it is important to raise them to grow optimally—to become healthy, high-producing cows. Dr. Bob James, a dairy consultant and owner of Down Home Heifer ...

Learn about proven cooling techniques that keep cows comfortable and productive through summer’s hottest days.

Female calves replace their mothers when the mothers are culled due to old age, health problems, or other reasons. Unfortunately, many farmers lose these valuable assets before they can benefit from ...

As the easy premiums fade, beef-on-dairy 2.0 demands data-backed verification and surgical breeding strategies to transform ...

Proper colostrum management, sanitation and biosecurity help prevent deadly calf scours.

A growing number of dairies are breeding some of their cows—the ones they don’t plan to raise replacement heifers from--to beef bulls, using semen from Angus or Charolais. The beef-dairy cross calves ...

The scent of cattle is an unavoidable assault on the senses at an Arkansas dairy farm on a hot October day. But it's a ...

Illinois is a top agricultural state, generating billions of dollars annually, but even where stalks of corn and acres of soybean vastly outnumber its 400,000 head of cattle, cows raised for beef and ...