Milking equipment, silage and herd size all help explain why H5N1 tears through dairy farms but leaves beef herds largely ...

Early sperm sorting practices resulted in high cell mortality, with high costs and limited availability of quality semen.

Illinois is a top agricultural state, generating billions of dollars annually, but even where stalks of corn and acres of soybean vastly outnumber its 400,000 head of cattle, cows raised for beef and ...

At Kieler Farms, beef-on-dairy is now a core piece of the business, with about 1,300 head finished each year and a system built to carry cattle from calf to harvest.

The US milk cow herd is the biggest it has been in at least a quarter century, in a positive sign as the meat industry suffers through tight supplies and consumers face record beef prices. The US ...