First, you have to understand that English Longhorns are very rare – there are only 40 in the United States, and the herd at Conner Prairie, an 850-acre park that includes breeding herds of rare ...

Building a herd, or even maintaining a herd, that works for your unique operation, in your unique environment and helps to ...

YOU KNOW, EVERYBODY HAS THEIR WIDGET, their product. Cattle are like any other business; there are different people along the production line to get the steak to the grocery store or the milk to the ...

After a long day of working bulls, Beni Paulson pours a celebratory splash of watered-down blackberry brandy into a thermos cup as his sidekick Pearl, a 5-year-old mini Australian shepherd, provides ...

When it comes to managing cattle—especially young and potentially skittish bulls—Haitian farmer Auguste Joseph has the magic touch. It’s gentleness. “I’ve been nice and affectionate and caress him,” ...

Have you wanted to have more calves born earlier in your calving season, but did not want to deal with the increase in labor, cost and facilities to utilize estrus synchronization and artificial ...

Chad Dechow, a geneticist at Pennsylvania State University who studies dairy cows, is explaining how all of America's cows ended up so similar to each other. He brings up a website on his computer.

As the planet warms, Nigerian farmers are looking to breed cattle that can take the heat, importing semen from a Brazilian breed suited to balmy tropical weather. In Africa, European cattle struggle ...