Adult cow death loss is right around 10 percent for most U.S. dairy herds, but Colorado State University’s Dr. Franklyn Garry believes doing one thing could significantly reduce the number of cows that die on your dairy.

At the Illinois Dairy Summit, held earlier this year, a local dairy producer discussed milk quality and how he addresses it in his day-to-day farm operations. He gave several tips on what he does to reduce somatic cell counts and the incidence of mastitis.

While ChemChina’s move to take over Syngenta Ag is still pending and has garnered much of the attention this winter and late spring, it is only one of many buyouts and takeovers in the agricultural community.

The FBI and the USDA assess the Food and Agriculture (FA) Sector is increasingly vulnerable to cyber attacks as farmers become more reliant on digitized data.

This month’s VAS DC305 tip is a tool that can help you examine the effectiveness of your breeding program: BREDSUM.

Ensuring a quality beef-eating experience starts at the ranch when the calf is born and continues until the steak is presented to the consumer as a final, cooked product.

When someone asks me about feeding grain, the question usually consists of two parts. The first is: “Should I feed grain to my cattle?” The second follows quickly: “Should I roll it or pellet it or feed it as whole grain?”

Stock trailers are an essential tool in every beef cattle operation. They provide the ability to transport cattle and horses to various locations on the ranch, to distant pastures or to market.

Given how little the American public wanders into an honest discussion about its food policy, when a news story does broach the topic, you have to pay attention.

The Feb. 23, 2016 Drought Monitor showed a spotty increase in D0 Abnormally Dry and D1 Moderate Dry areas in most of the U.S. east of the Basin and range of the West – a major improvement, however, from this time last year, with most of cattle country experiencing favorable weather and improved forage conditions in the first quarter of 2016, allowing cattle to stay on pasture for longer periods.