The Council on Dairy Cattle Breeding (CDCB) published the evaluations in August 2026. They measure predicted transmitting ...

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 ...

Two new genetic evaluations could help dairy farmers breed calves with greater resistance to diarrhea and respiratory disease ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...