The Southern Great Plains has seen better forage growing conditions in 2013 than in many recent years. This has been, in part, due to less wind, cooler temperatures and more rainfall. Many ranchers ...

Healthy heifers offer a sure continuity to a thriving dairy farming business. It is therefore prudent to raise female calves well as you groom them to slowly join the herd. When you cull the older ...

MONTGOMERY, Minn. — Jeff Tuma quit milking, but he didn’t leave the dairy industry. Tuma is a custom heifer raiser for two dairy producers, George Duban of Lonsdale and Mark Mundt of Waseca. At a ...

MONTGOMERY, Minn. — Jeff Tuma figured he’d raise steers after he quit milking in July 1998. Then, a dairy farmer approached him about raising heifers. At that time, no one was custom raising heifers, ...

The two half-grown heifers live behind a house at 21 School Street, two doors down from the Bellows Falls Middle School. Neighbors are very concerned about the animals safety with the upcoming frigid ...