By Brock Ortner and Aaron Berger Nebraska Extension Educators With rising input costs, many cow-calf producers are looking for ways to reduce expenses and ...

ST. CLOUD, Minn. — Despite some exceptionally cold temperatures this winter, Jared Luhman, a cow-calf producer at Dry Creek Farms in Goodhue, Minnesota, was able to enjoy a relatively average year of ...

In this video, K-State Research and Extension cow/calf specialist Jason Warner says the year’s drought across much of Kansas may affect the way producers supplement their cow’s feed this winter. “An ...

Methane isn’t just an environmental buzzword—it is energy lost. Every puff of gas from a cow’s rumen represents feed energy ...

The December report showed cattle and calves on feed in large feedlots (greater than 1,000 head) totaled 11.727 million head on Dec. 1. USDA livestock analyst Michael McConnell says inventory levels ...

Missouri Extension releases updated beef cattle enterprise budgets showing improved cow-calf margins but challenges for other ...

During any given production year on the ranch, cows/heifers are faced with nutritional and environmental stressors. They have periods of high and low nutritional demands. Knowing the stress periods ...

Feed is one of the biggest expenses in most cow-calf operations, yet many supplement programs are based on best guesses. Often, insufficient amounts of supplement are fed and, at times, too much is ...

Decisions a cattle producer makes about pregnant cow nutrition now can have major impacts on calf health in the spring and cow fertility during the next breeding season. "The great majority of fetal ...

In a natural setting, cows and nursing calves together set the feeding schedule for the calf, and calves wean gradually, completing weaning at varying ages. By contrast, in artificial rearing systems ...