Minnesota State Fair will prohibit nursing dairy cows at Miracle of Birth over bird flu risk The spread in cattle herds of H5N1, often called bird flu, has ramped up biosecurity measures for livestock ...

Transporting newborn calves long distances has welfare challenges. On some dairies, beef on dairy calves are reared for ...

Dr. Meggan Hain is the chief veterinary officer for the National Milk Producers Federation, whose farmers produce two-thirds of all milk in the United States. Dairy farming requires long hours of ...

If you are in the beef business, it may be a little early to begin vaccinating your cattle, but it’s not too early to begin thinking about your vaccination program. Dr. Craig Payne is a beef cattle ...

New research shows that genetic changes in modern H5N1 viruses improve their ability to infect bovine cells, helping explain recent HPAI detections in U.S. dairy herds.

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 ...

UCCE experts urge producers to monitor their animals for signs of the parasite, which has been moving north from Central and South America.

At most, traditional dairy farms calves are separated from their mothers within 24 hours of their birth. It allows farmers to collect the milk that the calves would naturally drink and sell it to be ...