Does it make financial sense to purchase dairy replacement heifers in today’s white-hot market? Maybe. Or maybe not, according to a pair of University of Florida Dairy Extension Specialists. Albert de ...

At the center of the current conversation: heifers, and more specifically, lack of them. In the most recent USDA Cattle Inventory report, released January 31, 2025, the inventory of dairy heifers ...

For those following the red heifer project in Israel, a pressing question has emerged: what happens if all the heifers are disqualified or age out before the ceremony can take place? Byron Stinson, ...

Your yearling heifers have just completed their first winter and are coming up on one-year-old, which means that farmers may be thinking of turning them out to grass in the coming weeks. After feeding ...

Since age at puberty is difficult to measure directly, RTS can estimate pubertal status, and if performed before the onset of the breeding season, can be a predictor of heifer reproductive performance ...

Time quickly gets away when you’re a cow-calf operator, but it’s essential to keep the first calf heifers on track. Heifers conceiving early in their first breeding season will have increased lifetime ...