How this California operation is turning genetics and data into profits by raising higher performing beef-on-dairy calves with its own Angus bulls.

Dairy cows are embracing a new job assignment as incubators that fill the U.S. fed beef supply pipeline. Purina Animal ...

Female calves replace their mothers when the mothers are culled due to old age, health problems, or other reasons. Unfortunately, many farmers lose these valuable assets before they can benefit from ...

Locke and her team interviewed both veal and dairy-beef producers in the United States and compiled their findings in the ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — Raising beef on dairy-crossed cattle is starting to have a significant impact on the beef market. For the past five to six years, beef on dairy cattle have become more common in ...

A growing number of dairies are breeding some of their cows—the ones they don’t plan to raise replacement heifers from--to beef bulls, using semen from Angus or Charolais. The beef-dairy cross calves ...

Young dairy calves have traditionally been housed in single-calf hutches. This was believed to be healthier for them than having contact with other baby calves, but recent research and behavioral ...

Beef-on-dairy crossbreeding is the latest step in the evolution of dairy genetics and is now a key driver of the U.S. supply of both beef and dairy cattle. Some 72% of dairy farms are now ...

Introducing toys into the calf pen can enhance the development and wellbeing of youngstock, helping them thrive and become ...

One of the primary reasons for a reduction in cows headed to slaughter is those females are being kept to make more ...

Dairy cattle in Nevada have been infected with a new type of bird flu that’s different from the version that has spread in U.S. herds since last year, Agriculture Department officials said Wednesday.