BROOKINGS, S.D. — Precise feed rations are critical to maintaining a healthy cattle herd in the most efficient way possible. Slick bunk management is the process of prescribing the appropriate amount ...

When it comes to nutritional management of growing and finishing cattle, the scientific aspects tend to get the most attention. Hours are spent getting the formulations right and debating the merits ...

When it comes to nutritional management of growing and finishing cattle, the scientific aspects tend to get the most attention. Hours are spent getting the formulations right and debating the merits ...

Kansas is home to 161,000 dairy cows, and the number grows each year with every large dairy that chooses to relocate to the Sunflower State. For nearly 20 years the Plains has been an ideal relocation ...

Drought conditions are challenging producers to be creative as they consider options for maintaining the cowherd through the ...

Heifers can safely eat 20 percent less between weaning and breeding, according to a two-year study. Heifers being prepared for breeding don't have to eat like pigs, stuffing themselves at ...

CRAWFORD - Farmhood Fields LLC, a proposed farm-to-table living community owned by Zeke Alenick, is suing the town over the right to build a cattle feed bunk on its Crans Mill Road property. Alenick ...

Feed shrinkage is caused by many factors, including delivery weight errors, wind, birds, rodents, tires, tracked feed, cattle tossing feed, silage bunker losses, feed refusals, bunk heating and ...

A structural change in the cattle industry over the last few years shows a slow evolution away from the conventional grazing of young cattle to putting them in grow yards on a fast-track for ...

I don`t know about you, but I have not enjoyed the recent 100 degree heat wave. Most likely, cattle in the area have not enjoyed it either. Cattle have a temperature comfort zone that ranges from zero ...

FORDVILLE, N.D. -- Ears pricked toward the sounds of Wanda Morstad’s tractor and feed wagon rumbling toward them, black cows, save for the white ring of frost around their muzzles, ambled off of their ...