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 ...

Dr. Bob James, a dairy consultant and owner of Down Home Heifer Solutions, Blacksburg, VA (Former Extension Scientist at Virginia Tech) specializes in calf health and nutrition and works with many ...

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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cows eating hay and soy-based feed. United Soybean Board/Flickr, CC BY The world’s population is growing, and so is the challenge ...

Helping calves build immunity quickly from the moment they are born goes far beyond the “colostrum story”, according to consultant vet Tommy Heffernan. While the role of nature’s “liquid gold” has ...

The job of a dairy princess often starts at 4 a.m. and goes for 12 hours or longer. Milking, cleaning, feeding, haying -- the days can be long and hard. This year, New York has 34 county-level dairy ...

Each year, New Zealand imports about 2 million tonnes of palm kernel expeller (PKE), a by-product of palm-oil processing in Indonesia and Malaysia, to feed dairy cows, at a cost of NZ$800 million. But ...

California’s wine industry could play a role in reducing methane emissions from dairy cattle. Researchers at University of California, Davis, added fresh grape pomace left over from winemaking ...