Record‑high beef‑on‑dairy calf prices are reshaping dairy producers' bottom lines. But experts warn without a deliberate risk ...

When tracked across calves and over time, serum total protein can provide insights into calf health, management consistency ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — Raising beef on dairy-crossed cattle is starting to have a significant impact on the beef market. For the past five to six years, beef on dairy cattle have become more common in ...

For 2026 alone, 3,900 more cows have been culled each week on average compared to a year ago, resulting in year-to-date slaughter being 35,000 head or 7.5% higher than the year prior.

At most, traditional dairy farms calves are separated from their mothers within 24 hours of their birth. It allows farmers to collect the milk that the calves would naturally drink and sell it to be ...

Colostrum, housing, and vaccination protocols have improved greatly in recent decades. Yet calves still get sick. What research has shown is that each animal also has a genetic component to illness, a ...

Beef-on-dairy crossbreeding is the latest step in the evolution of dairy genetics and is now a key driver of the U.S. supply of both beef and dairy cattle. Some 72% of dairy farms are now ...

Many modern dairy farm operations have developed an additional revenue stream by breeding dairy cows with Black Angus beef bulls using artificial insemination to produce crossbred calves, which ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. BUCKEYE — One day before reaching triple digits for the first time in 2024, Jennifer Millican, manager at Stotz Dairy and the ...

Minnesota’s largest milk producer plans to get bigger. Riverview LLP has applied for permits to build the single largest ...