The year 2024 is rapidly coming to a close as we enter the holiday season and soon we’ll be entering 2025.

As an outbreak of bird flu among dairy cows continues, U.S. health officials reported Tuesday that the strain of bird flu detected in a California child is similar to the strain spreading through livestock.

The cattle industry is looking at a variety of methods to mitigate methane emissions ranging from molecular manipulation to genetics. It’s a wide-open field, says Conor McCabe, a doctoral student at the University of California-Davis who focuses on dairy cattle sustainability. “Burping produces 95% of all methane emissions from cattle,” he says. “They consume a

“Producers have $2000 invested in the purchase of the feeder animal. When you add the cost of feed, bedding, labor, and interest, the total cost of production is hovering around $2700 per animal,” she said.

Stockpiling tall fescue is the is the most economical way feed cows during the winter months.

In many regions where spring calving occurs, the weather can be cold and wet. These conditions can encourage pathogen growth, and in confined areas such as calving lots, pathogen loads can increase rapidly.

The deadline to order Kansas 4-H Beef EID tags is quickly approaching on December 15.

Body condition score (BCS), an indicator of relative fatness, which is representative of energy stores, can be visually assessed at any point in time to evaluate the nutritional status of cattle.

Greenfield is Iowa location, to be held Jan. 15

Greenfield is Iowa location, to be held Jan. 15