Regardless of when a cattle owner decides to calve—spring or fall—it’s one of the most stressful times of the year. With so many challenges related to animal welfare, disease management, and safety ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Apr. 10—With an unusually warm spring, calving season for southwest North Dakota beef ranchers has been supreme. At JC Farms in ...

Tracking birth data, mothering ability and calf vigor on day one provides the metrics needed for smarter culling and sire ...

TAPPEN, N.D. - Dean and Twyla Stroh are winning a battle with cold, snow, mud and slop. The Strohs' calving season began on Feb. 8. Since then, they've calved out their embryo-transplant cows, their ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. — Chad Carlson didn't rush in to building a new calf facility. Rather, the Pennock dairyman spent three to four years researching calf barns. He was most concerned with getting the ...

EDINBURG, N.D. – As twilight fades to darkness, Joel Mathiason’s gentle hands lift a newborn calf to its feet and steer it into a barn stall knee-deep in straw. A cow follows. When she enters the ...

Sometimes, a first-calf heifer is confused or indifferent toward her newborn calf after she calves. She might just continue to lie there and doesn’t get up to lick the calf, ...

PIERRE, S.D. — Cattle producers weigh a multitude of factors when determining when to start calving in South Dakota. But one factor they can't fully anticipate is the state's volatile weather. While ...