Goat milk may have benefits for digestive, heart, and bone health. It's a source of protein, vitamins, minerals, and highly ...

Illinois is a top agricultural state, generating billions of dollars annually, but even where stalks of corn and acres of ...

With calves weaned, veterinarians criss-cross the country conducting pregnancy checks, or preg checking, cow herds. The vet calls out and marks an “O” on the hips of “open” or non-pregnant cows.

Roughly half of Americans have prediabetes or diabetes, including an increasing number of children. High blood levels of ...

Cows producing high milk volumes during dry-off often face discomfort, increased vocalization, and lying reluctance. Tikofsky noted, “Cows dried off while giving large amounts of milk may experience ...

The team’s working hypothesis is that heifers demonstrating moderate forage intake with acceptable growth will ultimately become more forage-efficient cows. Simply put, they define an efficient cow as ...

Is alfalfa still essential in dairy rations? Learn how low-lignin alfalfa, harvest management, and forage economics impact ...

The healthiest butter options include grass-fed, organic, whipped, and plant-based spreads. These offer more nutrients and fewer additives than regular butter.

Third-generation Ashburton dairy farmers TJ and Mark Stewart are no strangers to adapting and evolving. With a history of resilience - particularly after the devastating flooding of May 2021, in which ...

In spring-calving dairy herds, most have a proportion of the herd dried off at the moment, with a view of all being dry over the coming weeks. Some will also be milking on a proportion of the herd ...

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 ...

How does a dairy cow produce one ton of milk components? Some simple math will show evidence. A Holstein cow that produces 85 lb/day of milk (~27,000 lb yearly) at a 4.2% butterfat and 3.2% milk ...