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Two dairy farmers experiencing some of the coldest temperatures in history offered these tips to fight frostbite.

As grass leases continue to get harder to find and more expensive to acquire, and drought continues, cow/calf producers are showing more and more interest in feeding pairs in a confinement system.

Bad weather and poor cow nutrition are the leading causes of weak calf syndrome.

Research shows more outgoing animals have a greater tolerance to stressful situations.

Dehorning or disbudding calves is a decades-old practice that has changed over the years, and more changes are coming.

Registration is now open for the 2019 Dairy Calf & Heifer Association (DCHA) Annual Conference, April 9-11, at the Madison Marriott West, Middleton, Wis.

South Africa’s Department of Agriculture has quarantined an area in Vhembe in Limpopo province following positive laboratory results for foot-and-mouth disease in cattle in the district.

Calf and heifer raisers from across the country are encouraged to attend the 2019 Annual Conference of the Dairy Calf and Heifer Association, April 9-11, 2019, in Madison, Wis.

Even with nighttime feeding, a few calves still will be born in the coldest nighttime hours. These wet newborns may become hypothermic or cold stressed.

Calves coming down with illness often are very good at masking their symptoms in the early stages.

Cold winter weather presents some additional challenges to keeping dairy calves healthy, comfortable and growing.

Despite our best efforts at bull selection and heifer development, cows or heifers occasionally need assistance at calving time.

Neonatal calf diarrhea (commonly called “calf scours”) is one of the most costly disease entities in the beef cattle business.

Does the severity (coldness or mildness) of the winter have an impact on spring-born calf birth weights?

March could be the hardest month of the year on beef cattle according to Eldon Cole, field specialist in livestock with University of Missouri Extension.

The outlook continues to be for hot and dry conditions.

Calves need at least a gallon of quality colostrum as soon as possible after birth.