Pasture lands have been stripped down to a sea of sand after wildfires tore across the U.S. Plains, killing cattle and wiping out their food sources, and threatening a historically small herd already ...

SIOUX CENTER, Iowa - Extension dairy specialist Jennifer Bentley discussed automatic calf feeding systems during recent Dairy Days in Sioux Center and Spencer. Bentley talked about the pros and cons ...

Free-choice supplementation can be a powerful option for meeting the nutrient needs of grazing cattle where daily feed delivery is a challange.

MORRIS, Minn. -A West Central Research and Outreach Center study of group feeding of calves is complete. The two-year research at the Morris-based center showed calves fed in groups had virtually the ...

Dr. Adam Beard shares new research evaluating short-term contact between cows and calves and its impact on early calf health ...

Are there ways to change calves’ environment and management to make their lives better? If so, can those improvements be made ...

Many ranchers have raised calves on bottles. It might be a twin, or a heifer’s calf that isn’t accepted by its mother, or a calf whose mother died. The important thing, if it’s a newborn calf, is to ...

In a natural setting, cows and nursing calves together set the feeding schedule for the calf, and calves wean gradually, completing weaning at varying ages. By contrast, in artificial rearing systems ...