It’s history in the making in U.S. dairy animal trade right now, as springer values stay knocking on the door of $4,000 per ...

Using pre-breeding exams to help make decisions about which heifers should be kept or culled is a cost-effective way to ...

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Many farms today use beef or sexed semen to breed for replacement heifers. This is a good option as farmers may be reluctant to buy replacement heifers from outside sources and because replacements ...

Record prices for dairy-beef crossbred calves have made it easy to swing the pendulum to using more beef genetics for cash flow.

Replacing heifers based on visual phenotype and genetic merit, rather than early screening, leaves potential long-term herd ...

Timing is the key to a successful calving season, but beef cattle producers often wonder how they can narrow the calving ...

“I’ve actually seen kind of the number of replacement heifers’ retention for our customers that have some marketings from selling replacement heifers has actually gone down a little bit.

Beef replacement heifers, at 4.67 million head on Jan. 1, 2025, were down 1% from Jan. 1, 2024. The high cattle market likely explains some of that, Koedam said. “Not many people have been ...