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 ...

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 ...

“This is not a cheap game. Every input counts. That’s the great challenge of our modern age,” says Morgan Kauth of K Heart Cattle. Kauth and his wife, Danielle, breed and raise registered Herefords ...

A heifer that calves late in her first breeding season is already behind — and likely to stay that way. “It starts a vicious cycle,” says Jordan Thomas, Ph.D., University of Missouri, “Where she ...

Heifers are one of the largest and most expensive inputs for a herd. “Where do you want to be in five years? Where do you want to be in 10 years with your cow herd?” These are questions Dr. Jennifer ...

Developing a heifer to replace a cull cow is one of the most expensive management decisions for cow/calf producers, leading to major implications on long-term herd profitability. When the decision to ...

Conception rates are low at first estrus, so the goal is to have heifers reach puberty at least three weeks before breeding, ...

Longevity will be the key to profitability when it comes to replacement heifers that entered the herd over the past few years. Identifying, managing, and breeding for females that will maintain ...

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 ...

The latest information on heifer development in beef cattle for the food animal practitioner! Topics include rebuilding the US cowherd, physiology and endocrinology of puberty, nutritional development ...

Cattle producers in Alabama with yearling heifers should look to participate in the Sand Mountain Elite Heifer Development Program. This forage-based development program is consigned by cattle ...