In the northern Plains cattle business, late spring and summer are fun. No matter what type of beef operation, the shift to warmer weather is appreciated. Regardless of where a producer is at, spring ...

In working cattle ranches throughout the world, separating cows from their herd is an age-old necessity for reasons of ...

Lynette Coller of Stevensville and her horse, Jewel, helped sort cows and calves Wednesday at the Gingerich Ranch, north of Corvallis. The project took the best part of the morning.

“You have to love ranching to do it. It is not a job, but a lifestyle and it is not for wimps,” a local ranch woman said while slogging through deep, wet snow to check on heifers that are calving.

Spring calving time has arrived, and workload has sharply intensified for Flint Hills ranchers with cow-calf operations. A cow’s gestation is the period between conception and birth. During this time, ...

Ease of management is the driver for a family farm in east Devon to leave the job of rearing heifer replacements to the cows themselves. Tim Wall, who runs a 270-cow, spring block-calving herd with ...

Casha Bowles-Jones says keeping the cows and calves together is "really rewarding" A dairy farmer who switched from a conventional way of milking to a holistic one says it is more rewarding. The ...

Over the course of several weeks beginning in early November, seven different Weld county ranchers have reported a total of 23 missing cattle, many of them calves. Investigators with the state brand ...