Maintaining a healthy cow herd means maintaining a healthy rumen. Over the holiday season, humans may experience stomach ...

Mineral supplementation “Minerals like zinc, copper, manganese and selenium are important for fertility, so bulls need good sources of those,” Lancaster says. “There is some work out there in mature ...

Shrinking cattle inventories in recent years leads to a wide range of impacts on the multi-sectored cattle industry.

I’m not sure if this is the real start of spring, or a false dawn, but the recent weather has been welcome either way. It has ...

Scientists are pioneering a revolutionary approach to combat climate change: genetically engineering cow gut microbes to ...

Robotic milking can be a game-changer for labor efficiency, but it doesn’t totally eliminate hands-on work—especially when it ...

Cow-calf production in the upper Midwest is not historically profitable every year without significant cost savings in winter ...

Barber and Garwood haven’t yet faced any significant negative customer response. At Blue Hill at Stone Barns, dairy cows forage on grass and hay before being slaughtered. “The meat from grass-fed ...

Cows in good condition can handle cold temperatures ... grains like corn or energy-rich feeds like distillers grains. Good quality forage/hay can also help because the fermentation in the rumen ...

The Chippewa County Extension Office, along with the Chippewa Valley Forage Council, are hosting a Beef and Dairy ...

We have tried to keep the diet and TMR as consistent as possible because forage quality is a really important factor in how many visits cows make to the robot,” he says. He suggests that the new ...

The Chippewa County Extension office along with the Chippewa Valley Forage Council are hosting a Beef and Dairy ... “Nutrition Considerations for the Beef Cow Herd”; Ryan Sterry, Regional Livestock ...