Experts say, when making culling decisions, remember to look at calf weaning weight in comparison to cow size.

Larger cows must wean heavier calves to justify higher maintenance costs. Track individual productivity for better decisions.

With their pre-dawn milking done, about 80 cows ramble into the dewy pastures of the Paris Family Farm in Belleville, Wisconsin, to graze. “This is a much better sound than turning on a tractor,” says ...

Food can be depressing. If it's tasty, it's carcinogenic. If it's cheap, animals were tortured. But this, miraculously, is a happy column about food. It's about a farmer who names all his 230 milk ...

The conditions are about right for putting cattle out on wheat pasture, especially with the rain many parts of the Plains recently received. Getting back to the basics of cattle management on wheat is ...

Beef cow-calf producers need to put replacement heifers back into their herds each year according to Eldon Cole, livestock specialist with University of Missouri Extension. “If they wish to maintain ...

Holly Koch at Schriever Simmentals in Molalla, Ore., practices regenerative grazing. MOLALLA, Ore. — Holly Koch attributes her love of cattle to her grandfather, David Schriever, who founded Schriever ...

A weed calculator developed by an agricultural scientist tells ranchers the number of additional cows they could raise if they eliminated one or two widespread exotic invasive weeds. A weed calculator ...

LEELANAU COUNTY, Mich., (WPBN/WGTU) --Walk around Rick Robbins’ Leelanau County yard and you'll see all kinds of unexpected things. Roaming around his fenced-in, small pasture are chickens, mini ...