Feb. 20—Ralph Morgan's livelihood is something of a spectator sport. Morgan is a cattle rancher. Each year, starting around the middle of February, his cows have their calves in a pasture near Highway ...

Chris Johnson is accustomed to seeing double at this time of year. His family's beef cattle operation near Sharon, N.D., is dealing with another spate of twin calves this spring. Of the first roughly ...

Over time we have all developed our own way of determining when a cow may be approaching her time to calve. Some good, some okay, and some of us just get a surprise when we see a new calf. It is ...

TAPPEN, N.D. - One could be excused for thinking the central North Dakota weather on March 30 was an early April Fools' Day joke - and a cruel one at that. The northwest wind bit at exposed skin and ...

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As the calving season kicks of for many farms, managing the concern that is negative energy balances in freshly calved cows ...