BEEF’s exclusive video series offer an easy look into real-life calving situations and how to deal with problems that can ...

Calving season is an important and busy time of year as beef producers are preparing themselves for less sleep each night, ...

Over the next few weeks it is important to continually asses your dry cow management to ensure cows down at the correct BCS.

The calving process is natural and a majority of time it happens without much fanfare—which is by design. However, there are situations where cows or heifers need help and intervention is necessary to ...

It is uncanny how certain cattle producers have an accurate internal alarm system that awakes them at the exact hour during the middle of night when they need to assist a heifer or cow with difficult ...

This cow has a body condition score of 6, meaning she is ideal. All of her ribs are covered, and her hooks and pins are becoming rounded. Body condition scoring refers to evaluating the amount of body ...

COOPERSTOWN, N.D. - April blizzards have added to difficulties for cattlemen in the region, as well as the veterinarians who serve them. Paul Motter, is a veterinarian and owner of Cooperstown ...

Anything that can be done to make an intensive block-calving period run as smoothly as possible will be advantageous for a busy farm team. It stems from preparing staff, processes and cows ahead of ...

During any given production year on the ranch, cows/heifers are faced with nutritional and environmental stressors. They have periods of high and low nutritional demands. Knowing the stress periods ...

With calving season just around the corner, it is important to be prepared in advance. Planning now will help produce a successful calf crop and avoid the stress of last-minute dilemmas. Spring calves ...

Calving will be the focus of a workshop that the North Dakota State University Extension Service is holding Feb. 29 at the NDSU North Central Research Extension Center near Minot. "This program will ...

In anticipation of calving season, the Kansas State University Department of Animal Sciences and Industry and K-State Research and Extension are planning a series of calving schools in January. The ...