BROOKINGS, S.D. -- Weaning is the most stressful event in a calf's life. If calves can weather this stress unscathed, they have cleared a major hurdle to a productive future in the feedlot or as a ...

Pregnancy and fertility percentage, along with live calves at weaning, are important economic factors for producers and ranchers. “There's lots of production parameters we keep track of with calving.

In most of the Upper Midwest, the grasses are turning to gold, along with the leaves, and soon ranchers will wean their calves. Weaning can be a stressful time for calves and for cattle producers.

Weaning at home reduces stress and improves profit in calves, says University of Missouri Extension beef nutritionist Eric Bailey. Unfortunately, more than 55% of calves are weaned on the trailer on ...

Weaning is a stressful time for calves. There are social stresses associated with removal from the dam and disrupting social hierarchy, physical stresses of transportation and the marketing system, ...

During any given production year on the ranch, cows/heifers are faced with nutritional and environmental stressors. They have ...

Following the summer months, cattle producers must wean calves from their mother’s in order to transition the calves to a diet that helps them develop before being sent to a feed yard for finishing.

Writer: Adam Russell, 903-834-6191, adam.russell@ag.tamu.edu Contact: Dr. Jason Banta, 903-834-6191, jpbanta@tamu.edu OVERTON – Spring-born calves will soon be arriving at auction markets, but ...

Pregnancy and fertility percentage, along with live calves at weaning, are important economic factors for producers and ranchers. “There's lots of production parameters we keep track of with calving.