April brings with it the memories of spring 2022 when storms dumped heavy, wet snow that caused livestock losses in the northern Plains. Meanwhile, below average temperatures, wind and deep snow — in ...

Our fall calving season has just wrapped up with another successful year that has now brought views of lively baby calves dotting our pasture. Since our calving season usually falls within the same ...

Benchmarking is a useful tool that allows businesses to compare their performance to others. However, limited data is available to cow/calf producers for this purpose. Management practices associated ...

Good nutrition is important to overall health, and it begins at birth, said the experts at the Kansas State University Beef Cattle Institute on a recent Cattle Chat podcast where they discussed the ...

The odds of healthy quadruplet calves are estimated at one in 11 million. Maybe that's why Abram Knelsen, a Ruthven, Ont., ...

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A new study in the US has found that, in grain-fed beef systems, the greatest amount of methane is created when cows are nursing their calves. The study, which was published in the Journal of Animal ...

Allan Bryant scans the sky as he watches over a minutes-old calf huddled under a tree line with its mother. After a few ...

In the book “Cowpuppy,” a scientist forges a bond with his new cows as he tries to help a calf nurse for the first time. The following is an excerpt from Cowpuppy: An Unexpected Friendship and a ...

A farmer in Rovaniemi was astonished this week when a heifer who ran away half a year ago reappeared with a newborn.

Carole Soule with Belle, a milking short horn cow. Belle is a twin and because her twin brother was a male, she is sterile (also known as a freemartin heifer.) Belle will never have a calf so she will ...