The other day, my old cow friend, Buffalo ... When I returned to the dairy farm 15 years ago, my parents and I worked out an arrangement where I would artificially inseminate their cows and I could ...

This little, chocolate-colored, furry creature looked just like a little bison ... make her a nurse cow for raising baby calves. I’ve been playing around with turning my old cows into nurse cows as ...

There’s an idea that beef from a dairy herd is a more sustainable option, because you are getting more food for the resources used. Instead of simply just getting milk or beef from the land, water, ...

The UW-Dairy Repro$ can be better appreciated with the use of a practical and realistic example. Let’s suppose a farmer managing a 1000-cow dairy herd with a rolling herd average of 28,000 lb/cow/year ...

California had four of the top five counties for dairy cow numbers in 2012, according to the 2012 Census of Agriculture. Tulare County had the top milk cow inventory in the nation in 2012 with 489,436 ...

The January 1, 2023, Cattle inventory report included a beef cow herd of 28.9 million head, down 3.6 percent year over year and the smallest beef cow total since 1962. More importantly going forward, ...

the future ideal dairy cow will also need to have a smaller body size and more efficient conversion of feed to milk. Geneticists at the University of Minnesota have been crossbreeding with ...

High daily temperatures at 20 and 30 degrees confirm the arrival of winter. A week or more of cold temperatures, particularly below freezing, can take a toll on the cow herd. A bodily response to cold ...

For the second time in just over a week, national milk testing has identified another spillover of H5N1 avian influenza into dairy cows, with investigators linking detection to a herd in Arizona’s ...

SCHNECKSVILLE, Pa. - Lehigh County and the Lehigh Valley Zoo has announced changes to the bison herd to ensure the safety of the bison. Visitors of the Trexler Nature Preserve will now see bison ...