Practical ways exist to help ease early-life stress and defend calves against bovine respiratory disease. Beef-on-dairy calves often change locations multiple times before they’re six months old, ...

A calf’s digestive system is shaped by more than time. Diet, milk intake and early environmental exposure all influence rumen development. On a recent episode of the Kansas State University Beef ...

Results from a recent study on how early nutrition can affect finished beef health, performance and carcass quality in beef x dairy calves provided some clarity and some surprises for Iowa State ...

Female calves are the future of the herd and for that reason, they must be well taken care of. When we cull the older cows due to decreased milk production or otherwise, these little ones become the ...

Getting heifers developed, inseminated early and confirmed pregnant plays a significant role in the lifetime productivity of ...

Dairy farmers see so many cows calving that they learn to figure out a cow calving fairly quickly — too much or too little ...

Vets working on a project to breed more environmentally-friendly cows have described as "hugely significant" the birth of a calf using IVF, saying it could accelerate the dairy industry's journey to ...