Editor’s note: The following was written by Kiernan Brandt, Extension field specialist, for the South Dakota State University Extension website. Regardless of how efficiently reproductive success is ...

Every cow-calf producer adopts a system of heifer selection and development for his herd. There is no one perfect answer for increasing productivity and profitability, but there are some basic ...

Amid historic lows in the nation’s cowherd, Nebraska and South Dakota State University are spearheading the Great Plains Heifer Development Program, to help beef producers optimize heifer development ...

BROOKINGS, S.D. - Given the current economic situation, when it comes to raising their own replacement heifers, cattle producers need to sharpen their pencils and to ensure profits are still there at ...

Heifer development should be considered one of the easiest management components of your cow-calf herd. You're not pushing her for gain, she is not nursing a calf yet, she doesn't tear up fences and ...

Many heifer intramammary infections begin months before calving, long before milking hygiene becomes relevant. Targeting ...

Nebraska Extension is unveiling a new a opportunity for beef producers across the state, with the inaugural year of the Great Plains Heifer Development Center at the Haskell Ag Laboratory, near ...

More than 50 heifers from across the region and as far away as Montgomery, Alabama, will spend the next few months at Stephen F. Austin State University’s Walter C. Todd Agricultural Research Center ...

This is an interesting time in the cattle industry. High feed costs, paired with a multi-year drought, have been circumstances for producers to deal with. Despite high inputs, some producers are ...

University of Idaho Extension beef experts have scheduled a series of heifer development workshops to help the state’s ranchers capitalize on the nation’s smallest beef herd in more than 60 years.

BLACKVILLE – A new Forage Heifer Development Program is being initiated this year at Clemson’s Edisto Research and Education Center (REC) that researchers say will add to the success of the South ...