Farm-to-table beef offers farmers full value for superior genetics, better profits, and a direct connection to consumers ...

I'm not concerned with whether anyone won or lost, honestly, because while we're in the business of raising cattle, we're a lot more concerned with raising kids. The Schlecht girls showed a hodgepodge ...

Many folks with small farms and nearly all farmers and ranchers who raise cattle utilize some of their own animals for beef. There are various ways to do this if you want freezer beef for your family.

The I-29 Extension Dairy Consortium's recent educational effort titled Raising Your Best Calf Ever updated calf raisers on the key components of raising dairy calves. It started with a "Boots on the ...

Sometimes a calf loses its mother or has a mother that won’t accept it or can’t feed it. Many ranchers have raised calves on bottles. It might be an orphan or a twin—and the mother doesn’t have enough ...

Female calves replace their mothers when the mothers are culled due to old age, health problems, or other reasons. Unfortunately, many farmers lose these valuable assets before they can benefit from ...

Devin Fielding is a farmer and feedlot operator near Shelley. “We have a small custom feedlot and mainly concentrate on backgrounding calves since we can raise most of our own feed,” he said. “Our ...