But it all starts with dogs and their wild cousins, which are definitive hosts for neospora. After a dog eats infected ...

A dramatically improved dairy economy has been the source of optimism, keeping dairy replacement heifer values strong nationwide. Compared with last year at this time, springer prices have nearly ...

Nayeli and Priscilla Garcia have been following in the footsteps of their grandfather — former Kuna dairy worker Efren Garcia — since they turned 8, routinely seeking his insights on hay market and ...

Studies are showing that dairy heifers raised on pasture are healthier, cost less to raise and ultimately give more milk. Jennifer Blazek, a University of Wisconsin Dane County dairy and livestock ...

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 ...

MONTGOMERY, Minn. — Jeff Tuma figured he’d raise steers after he quit milking in July 1998. Then, a dairy farmer approached him about raising heifers. At that time, no one was custom raising heifers, ...

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 ...

MONTGOMERY, Minn. — Jeff Tuma quit milking, but he didn’t leave the dairy industry. Tuma is a custom heifer raiser for two dairy producers, George Duban of Lonsdale and Mark Mundt of Waseca. At a ...

Healthy heifers offer a sure continuity to a thriving dairy farming business. It is therefore prudent to raise female calves well as you groom them to slowly join the herd. When you cull the older ...

MANITOWOC - Young heifers no longer grow up on Soaring Eagle Dairy farm in Newton. Like thousands of other young cows born in Wisconsin, they are shipped to western states to eat and grow from the ...