During any given production year on the ranch, cows/heifers are faced with nutritional and environmental stressors. They have ...

As the cattle head to the cool-season grass pastures, spring breeding plans are well under way. While most of the cows have calved, spring grass means breeding time is not far away. The other day was ...

The top ten New Year’s resolutions, first published in January 2022, serve as a good reminder of the management practices ...

ST. PAUL -- First-calf heifers represent the present and the future of dairy farms, but they need to adapt to many physiological and behavioral changes at calving. According to the USDA, first-calf ...

1. Take time to sample harvested forages prior to winter feeding. Use forage tests to fine tune your supplementation program. Forage tests are cheap relative to the value of the information. 2.

Just like the youth of today foreshadow what the world will look like in the next generation, heifer selection and first calf heifer management determine the future of cowherds. Overseeing this stage ...

Spring calving time has arrived, and workload has sharply intensified for Flint Hills ranchers with cow-calf operations. A cow’s gestation is the period between conception and birth. During this time, ...

BROOKINGS, S.D. - For the long-term health of the cow herd, it's important to give some extra attention to first-calf heifer pairs during calving so they remain healthy and are ready to breed back in ...

Sometimes a first-calf heifer is confused or indifferent toward her newborn calf. She may just lie there after the calf is born and doesn’t get up to lick the calf, and when she does get up she may ...

For many years, commercial cow/calf producers have used birth weight expected progeny differences (EPD) in sire selection to minimize calving difficulty. However, some producers have expressed concern ...