Regardless of when a cattle owner decides to calve—spring or fall—it’s one of the most stressful times of the year. With so many challenges related to animal welfare, disease management, and safety ...

TAPPEN, N.D. - Dean and Twyla Stroh are winning a battle with cold, snow, mud and slop. The Strohs' calving season began on Feb. 8. Since then, they've calved out their embryo-transplant cows, their ...

Apr. 10—With an unusually warm spring, calving season for southwest North Dakota beef ranchers has been supreme. At JC Farms in Adams County, spunky yet sweet newborn black Angus calves have already ...

Producers have pros and cons to consider for spring and fall calving, as well as the timing of each. When it comes to calving, there are positives and negatives to spring or fall, including weather ...

TAPPEN, N.D. - One could be excused for thinking the central North Dakota weather on March 30 was an early April Fools' Day joke - and a cruel one at that. The northwest wind bit at exposed skin and ...

MONANGO, N.D. - Mark Wagner has memories of the April 1997 storm that hit North Dakota, and he's heard all about the 1966 storm before he was born that took lives, both human and livestock. He thinks ...

ANNAWAN, Ill. — Livestock owners in the area are overcoming obstacles during the coldest week of the season. Minnaert Show Cattle herdsman Adam Dynes said the farm had four calves this week, including ...

In cattle country, early spring is a season of both optimism and exhaustion. Forty weeks after gestation, the baby calves begin to arrive. Their births come with increasing frequency as calving season ...

BLOMKEST - When the Damhof family of Blomkest retired from the dairy business after 50 years of milking cows earlier this year, they didn't retire from raising livestock completely. Today, instead of ...

BLOMKEST, Minn. - When the Damhof family retired from the dairy business here after 50 years of milking cows earlier this year, they didn't retire from raising livestock completely. Today, instead of ...