Almost everyone in the cattle business knows these two things: (1) the feeder cattle market has demonstrated tremendous strength in reaching and sustaining record price levels during the past year, ...

Experts shared their thoughts on how to protect dairy workers from avian influenza during a recent online roundtable.

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — Raising beef on dairy-crossed cattle is starting to have a significant impact on the beef market. For the past five to six years, beef on dairy cattle have become more common in ...

ST. PAUL — University of Minnesota Extension is offering the Beginning Livestock Production online course in 2026, now with ...

Beef-on-dairy crossbreeding is the latest step in the evolution of dairy genetics and is now a key driver of the U.S. supply of both beef and dairy cattle. Some 72% of dairy farms are now ...

Federal officials have confirmed that three California dairy herds have suffered outbreaks of H5N1 bird flu, due most likely to the transportation of cattle and not exposure to diseased birds. Health ...

Experts say they are not sure how the highly-pathogenic avian influenza is passed among dairy cattle yet, but birds and cattle mingle a lot more than you would think. Perhaps it’s that wild birds, ...

A variant of H5N1 bird flu that has circulated widely in wild birds — and in several instances led to severe illness in humans — has turned up in dairy cattle for the first time. The findings were ...

Editor’s note: An earlier version of this article included a photo taken from the Calaveras County Fair’s Facebook page and later determined by The Bee to have been created or altered using artificial ...

CAMPBELL, Minn. — When I first heard the news of the two proposed Riverview Farms dairies in North Dakota last summer — a 25,000-head dairy near Hillsboro and a 12,500-head dairy near Abercrombie — I ...