The year was dry, forage is limited, last winter’s feed shortage is frozen into your memory, and you have cows to feed. With these thoughts in mind, maybe you harvested hay from the roadside—“ditch ...

Escalating costs for hay and supplements has many cattle producers concerned, especially in the face of very poor pasture conditions and limited hay supplies in some areas of Missouri. Current feed ...

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 ...

Cattle ingest microplastics that stress gut microbes and may contaminate meat and milk, posing potential food-safety risks.

On top of dealing with harsh winter weather in feeding cows, cattle farmers must guard against too much nitrate in poor-quality hay. "Just from cases we've confirmed, I know of 150 cows dying in the ...

The Wine Glass Ranch is more than a family operation. It's a blueprint for the future of sustainable beef production.

WHITE, South Dakota — Meet John and Sharon Leiferman: cow-calf producers in their mid-60s, blazing a snow trail toward their 70s, innovating with a low-labor technique called “bale grazing.” In 1991, ...