“There’s an app for that.” There’s an app for just about everything these days. There’s even a compass app for smartphones. Hopefully, if you’re ever that lost, you’ll have enough bars for the thing to work.

Several viral and bacterial diseases affect reproduction, interfering with the cow’s ability to carry a calf to term. It’s best to try to prevent these diseases by making sure cows and bulls have adequate immunity before breeding season.

U.S. milk production momentum pushed through the final month of 2016, gaining strength from more cows and greater milk output per cow.

Beef producers are keenly aware of the amount of time, effort, labor and resources it takes to keep a cow herd fed. Feed represents the largest portion of a beef cattle operation’s operating expenses. According to a 2016 University of Idaho Extension cow-calf budget (500-cow herd), the annual operating expenses per cow are approximately $505.

Ranchers and livestock farmers have always wanted to improve their cattle, sheep, horses, hogs and poultry. How best to do this has been debated for centuries. One of the original purposes of agricultural research stations and land-grant colleges was to study ways to improve different breeds.

Most people don’t have fairy godmothers or genies to make their wishes come true. We mortals have to rely on each other to help dreams come true. Katie Grinstead, co-owner of Vir-Clar Farms, a 2,000-cow dairy near Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, had a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to fulfill one man’s once-in-a-lifetime wish.

Two years ago, Zach Short went out to bring in the harvest on his family farm near Salina, Kansas. What started out as a normal day quickly turned into a disaster no one in his family would ever forget.

U.S. Senate leaders named members from their respective political parties to serve on the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry during the 115th Congress. In all, 11 of 21 Senate members named to the committee come from “major” dairy states.

Separate proposals to create a national organic research and promotion program and provide consistency to federal organic livestock production standards have been introduced.