Rumination and activity monitors now enable dairy farmers to track the health of individual cows on the farm. But are they worth their cost? Not in all cases, dairy owner and herd manager Kyle Van Dyk says.

This year’s grazing season was unique no matter where you went. There were areas where they received too much rain at one time, areas where they got perfect amounts of rain throughout the entire season and areas where they needed every drop of rain they could get.

Besides being a 12-letter word – and a hard one to spell at that – anaplasmosis is a disease the beef industry shouldn’t take lightly.

Arethusa Farm is not only a home to champion Holstein, Jersey and Brown Swiss cows.

Road View Dairy LLC is a first-generation farm started in 1992 by Mike and Sherri Yager. They had been farming with his family for six years when they decided to go out on their own and operate a separate farm on a cash rent basis in Mineral Point, Wisconsin.

What do both excellent cattle productivity and health ladder up to? Excellent nutrition. A general understanding of nutrition can help you achieve your operation’s marketing and performance goals.

Uncastrated calves going to the feedlot or packing plant bring a discounted price.

Well, it’s dog days in the feedlot now that summer’s nearly doneI been loafin’ through the cattle but the steers don’t suffer none

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced on Sept. 14 that wildland fire suppression costs for the fiscal year have exceeded $2 billion, making 2017 the most expensive year on record.