K-State beef cattle experts discuss how to effectively manage artificial insemination in the herd Late spring is the time of year when cattle are turned out on grass pastures and cows are grouped with ...

The premier national event in beef cattle reproduction management is coming to New Mexico. The Applied Reproduction Strategies in Beef Cattle Symposium will be Aug. 29 to 30 at the Ruidoso Convention ...

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The summer months can be tough on cattle, especially when it's extremely hot and humid. In fact, cows can develop heat stress, which can impact reproduction. It's something Dr. Heather Schlesser with ...

Sep. 18—When Edward and Sarah Perez, and their four children, moved to Chickahsa just over three years ago, they "accidentally" purchased a farm. Perez was stationed at Tinker Air Force Base for his ...

A new DNA bank offers huge opportunities for improvement of cattle breeding. The sequencing of the bovine genome has been completed and presents new opportunities to discover the influence of genes on ...

The days of guess work in breeding dairy cattle are gone. Today's DNA sequencing means more productive cows and less pollution. Breeding cattle through artificial insemination began in the 1940’s.

Carter Cattle Company is a family-owned purebred operation where the cattle business is a way of life. For more than 30 years ...

“We have found differences between cattle that are essentially able to establish a pregnancy versus those that do not, differences in their uterine microbiome before breeding,” Poole said. “So really ...

Dr. Jim Donahue and his team at ReproHealth Technologies are tweaking the design on a device that allows a surrogate cow to incubate embryos. (IBJ photos/Eric Learned) Dr. Jim Donahue did not ...