It is always exciting when a little one joins the family. In the beef cattle business, calves are typically born during a planned calving season that occurs in the spring or the fall, said the experts ...

From heat stress to winter supplementation, every calving season has trade-offs. Here is how to align your herd’s genetics ...

Fall calving can provide more agreeable weather than spring calving along with different marketing timetables, although it can require special nutrition planning for the winter months. Rain or shine, ...

HAYES, S.D. — Traditionally, you may not think September is the time of the year to see fresh baby calves hitting the ground. But, for those that fall calve, calving season is well underway. At ...

Since switching from a spring to fall calving season two years ago, Bill and Holly Seefried and their family have become content instead of cold and cranky. From late September through November, their ...

Dying trees, brown grass and cracked lawns are visible signs of a lack of rainfall. Along with the landscape disadvantages, a lack of rainfall is detrimental to establishing crops and growing pasture ...

One of the most important management decisions in a cow/calf operation is determining when cows should calve. Yet, there is ...

CASTALIA, Iowa — Dale and Karen Green’s Spring Valley Farms is in the midst of fall calving. The farm with pastures along the Yellow River northeast of Castalia is a Century Farm started by Dale’s ...

When deciding on whether or not to sell a cull cow, figure out how long you think you’ll want to keep her and what potential value she would bring you versus what it would be if you sold her today.

Since switching from a spring to fall calving season two years ago, Bill and Holly Seefried and their family have become content instead of cold and cranky. From late September through November, their ...