The January 1, 2023, Cattle inventory report included a beef cow herd of 28.9 million head, down 3.6 percent year over year and the smallest beef cow total since 1962. More importantly going forward, ...

“My recommendation is not more than a half of a percent of the animal’s weight. So, a 1,000-lb. cow you would not feed more than 5 lbs. (of additional corn). Make sure there is adequate protein coming ...

A management goal for the cow herd during the drylot period should be to maintain a healthy rumen environment. Once grass returns in the spring and the cow herd is returned to grazing, the rumen is ...

Lemuel Siaw is a research associate at the DIPPER Lab, and he has developed a device called Herd Watch ... but the herder may say, “My cattle didn’t come onto your land.” ...

Despite this, she chose cows as her subject matter due to their abundance in the Limburg region where she was then lecturing. During her early days of field research, Cornips parked a caravan at a ...

there was about a 9% increase in the cow herd. If we see that, it would be between 30.5 [million] and 31 million head, but we don’t even have a low yet. “I’m probably as bullish as I’ve ever been on ...

While the data concerns information from two years ago, it is still relevant to what is occurring in the industry today regarding a major topic of discussion – herd building. The U.S. cattle inventory ...

At CattleCon, aging ranchers, drought, and financial recovery slowing expansion were all topics of discussion as to what makes rebuilding the U.S. cattle herd so difficult and complex. That and more ...

Lets take a closer look at this and at how we can help “winterize” our herd. Cold weather places additional energy demands on cattle, especially when wind chill and wet conditions come into play.

Bovine tuberculosis has been confirmed in a cow/calf herd in Kingsbury County, South Dakota. State Veterinarian Dr. Beth Thompson says the infected herd was identified by the traceback efforts on a ...