Female calves replace their mothers when the mothers are culled due to old age, health problems, or other reasons. Unfortunately, many farmers lose these valuable assets before they can benefit from ...

USDA is expanding LRP coverage for cull cows and beef-on-dairy calves, giving dairy producers more ways to protect beef-driven revenue.

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 ...

Good heifers are the future of a dairy, so it is important to raise them to grow optimally—to become healthy, high-producing cows. Dr. Bob James, a dairy consultant and owner of Down Home Heifer ...

It is such a stark figure, that it warrants repeating: just shy of one in five dairy heifer calves born in Ireland this ...

As the easy premiums fade, beef-on-dairy 2.0 demands data-backed verification and surgical breeding strategies to transform ...