Raising dairy cows delivers multiple benefits. Just one “bossy” contentedly chewing her cud in the lower 40–or even in a small backyard plot–can easily provide your family with all the milk, cheese, ...

Female calves replace their mothers when the mothers are culled due to old age, health problems, or other reasons. Unfortunately, many farmers lose these valuable assets before they can benefit from ...

Calves need a dry, comfortable resting area and individual pens. Raising dairy calves is fraught with risks, but good calf pen design and management can optimize the young animals’ growth and minimize ...

COLD SPRING, Minn. — Derek Schmitz wasn’t always successful in raising and milking dairy cows. The 29-year-old has worked to grow his understanding smack dab in the biggest dairy county in Minnesota — ...

Because there is no effective vaccine or treatment for neosporosis, the disease can only be avoided by serologic testing ...

Isaac Haagen, an assistant professor of dairy production who holds a joint extension and research appointment, spoke on how ...

A growing number of dairies are breeding some of their cows—the ones they don’t plan to raise replacement heifers from--to beef bulls, using semen from Angus or Charolais. The beef-dairy cross calves ...

Innovative practices — from diet additives to regenerative grazing — can offer quick wins in the fight against global rising ...