Facing economic challenges, dairy farmers are increasingly crossbreeding some of their Holstein cows with beef breed bulls to add value to surplus calves born in their herds. In an analysis of almost ...

Most calves stand at birth or shortly after, like the healthy calf in this photo. The condition now known as calf recumbency results in animals too weak to stand at birth or shortly after, and most ...

HAZEL GREEN, Wis. – A new Holstein calf recently entered the world thanks to the efforts of a quick-thinking firefighter. When an early morning March 22 fire destroyed Marty and Kitzie Tashner’s ...

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 ...

Students across New York State will be able to follow three Holstein calves from Bilow Farms through Discover Dairy's Adopt a ...

One such sale included the annual Carnaross dairy sale, in Carnaross Mart, Co. Meath. The sale saw over 50 freshly calved ...

A joke that made the rounds in the financially troubled 1980s involved a farmer who hauled two Holstein bull calves to his local livestock market. Not only did the calves fail to sell; an unknown ...

Super entry of over 600 cattle last Friday, with the dropped calf section a roaring trade, containing calves up to seven ...