Volac Milk Replacers Limited has launched a new skim milk-based calf milk replacer product to meet demand from farmers for ...

Feeding calves colostrum benefits the producer of beef or dairy cattle by saving calf lives. Colostrum can be particularly valuable when given to calves that are orphaned or weak at birth or that do ...

Flourish Calf is designed to make calves thrive. It contains the optimal protein to energy ratio required by the pre-weaned ...

Lorraine Killen with a pen of newborn calves after being started on Champion calf milk replacer. Jonny’s father, Stephen ...

As the autumn calving season has well and truly taken off, with more calves on the ground day by day, pneumonia is something ...

On many farms, however, calf rearing is secondary to the main enterprise of milk production. Little or no investment in facilities means calves are reared in barren environments with restricted ...

Poor financial returns, problems with animal health, labour, and dissatisfaction with the beef genetics from calves coming ...

This was among the key messages delivered during a webinar organised by SAC Consulting, which aimed to dispel some of the ...

Calves strip graze on two- to three-day moves with pelleted calf feed fed through a restricted feeder. Milk replacer is prepared by a paddle mixer, which is gravity fed by a water heater.

The number of milk cows in the United States decreased slightly to 9.36 million. U.S. calf crop was estimated at 33.6 million head, down 2% from 2022. “Not really a lot in the way of surprises ...

Undocumented labor quietly props up the entire American economy — but nowhere more dramatically than on dairy farms.