One of the most important management decisions in a cow/calf operation is determining when cows should calve. Yet, there is ...

Fall calving can provide more agreeable weather than spring calving along with different marketing timetables, although it can require special nutrition planning for the winter months. Rain or shine, ...

It is always exciting when a little one joins the family. In the beef cattle business, calves are typically born during a planned calving season that occurs in the spring or the fall, said the experts ...

From heat stress to winter supplementation, every calving season has trade-offs. Here is how to align your herd’s genetics ...

HAYES, S.D. — Traditionally, you may not think September is the time of the year to see fresh baby calves hitting the ground. But, for those that fall calve, calving season is well underway. At ...

When friends ask Bill and Holly Seefried how their calving season is going, they grin and say it’s not. Unlike conventional calving season starting in frigid February, the Seefrieds’ Red Angus calves ...

September is here and before we know it, we’ll be in the midst of fall harvest and calving. It happens every year like clockwork and you’ve been doing it for so long it you could probably do it with ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- The vast majority of cow-calf producers in Tennessee and the Southeast using a defined calving season have long favored spring calving; however, researchers at the University of ...

Dying trees, brown grass and cracked lawns are visible signs of a lack of rainfall. Along with the landscape disadvantages, a lack of rainfall is detrimental to establishing crops and growing pasture ...

Since switching from a spring to fall calving season two years ago, Bill and Holly Seefried and their family have become content instead of cold and cranky. From late September through November, their ...

For Southeastern beef cattle producers the fall calving season, calving between mid-September and mid-November, was most profitable and had the smallest amount of variation in profits, meaning fall ...