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 ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. — Holly Thompson of Little Valley Dairy, south of Plainview, says her operation with 200 cows is probably the smallest in southeast Minnesota to have an automated calf feeder, but she ...

Dairy cows are embracing a new job assignment as incubators that fill the U.S. fed beef supply pipeline. Purina Animal ...

As beef-on-dairy becomes more of the standard, disconnects between dairies and feedlots continue to challenge collaboration ...

The calves at Rohe Dairy in Stearns County don't bawl when they're hungry. They live together in small groups in a tall, well-ventilated barn, and they eat whenever they please from an automated calf ...

Brett Reinford grew up on a dairy farm in Pennsylvania, and he remembers his farm’s cows being fed with cottonseed—35 years ago. “I remember digging tunnels through the cottonseed as a small boy,” he ...

Compared to last week, steers and heifers in the Southeast sold 9.00 to 14.00 higher, while other regions sold 5.00 to 10.00 higher. Demand was good to very good in places as buyers are trying to fill ...

Bovine respiratory disease (BRD)—a type of pneumonia—is the leading cause of death for dairy calves after they become ...

BALTIC, S.D. — South Dakota State University Extension and South Dakota Cattlemen’s Association Feeders Council partnered together to showcase beef and dairy crossbred cattle through feedlot tours ...