Planning a calving barn? Discover five design tips to improve cattle health, safety, efficiency and long-term durability.

From monitoring body condition to planning for early weaning, K-State’s Jason Warner shares a checklist to keep your operation on track through the summer heat.

From bunk training to vaccination protocols, learn how open communication between ranchers and feedyards reduces Bovine Respiratory Disease and improves performance.

Stop picking replacements once at weaning. Evaluate heifer candidates at five critical phases and let selection pressure ...

With just 74% of dairy heifers reaching production and inventories at record lows, producers can’t afford to lose ...

Carefully preparing replacement heifers prior to breeding season is essential for improving conception rates and ensuring cows calve early and remain productive throughout their lifetimes, according ...

Weekly auction data shows steer sales rising while heifer share drops to 39%, but retention levels still fall short of ...

At Kieler Farms, beef-on-dairy is now a core piece of the business, with about 1,300 head finished each year and a system ...

Tasha Macholan studies whether strategic supplementation can support calf gains while improving long-term pasture management.

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 ...

Calving suckler cows outside successfully needs the right body condition, good shelter, and a plan B for extreme weather events and emergencies. Although outdoor calving immediately lowers housing and ...

R-CALF USA today welcomed recent U.S. Department of Agriculture initiatives aimed at strengthening independent beef processing by reducing regulatory burdens, expanding processing capacity and helping ...