By transforming the dairy barn into a high-precision factory floor, beef-on-dairy provides the consistent, year-round supply of high-quality cattle the beef industry has chased for decades.

Beef-on-dairy has become a major profit center on many dairies. Calf value, feeder demand, and fat cattle prices now matter ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — Raising beef on dairy-crossed cattle is starting to have a significant impact on the beef market. For the past five to six years, beef on dairy cattle have become more common in ...

Dairy producers are experiencing low milk prices coupled with low heifer prices. This has brought a shift in focus to rightsizing replacement heifer inventories and finding new ways to generate income ...

A steadier dairy outlook is starting to take shape for 2026, with stronger signals building into the second half of the year.

Charles Martinez, assistant professor in the UT Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics and director of the UT Center of Farm Management, will present an invited talk regarding beef on dairy ...

A growing number of dairies are breeding some of their cows—the ones they don’t plan to raise replacement heifers from--to beef bulls, using semen from Angus or Charolais. The beef-dairy cross calves ...

At a time when the cattle herd is at historic lows due to the soaring costs of inputs and drought, beef-on-dairy cattle—cattle from dairy animals inseminated by semen from beef cattle—have been a boon ...

BALTIC, S.D. — South Dakota State University Extension and South Dakota Cattlemen’s Association Feeders Council partnered together to showcase beef and dairy crossbred cattle through feedlot tours ...

Alps2Ocean Foods founder Daniel Carson said they contracted 10- to 18-month-old dairy calves from birth and paid farmers $1100 for the 10-month-old, 275kg liveweight cattle. It resulted in 1000 units ...

The 2024 I-29 Moo University Dairy Beef Short Course is scheduled for March 21 as part of the finale for the Central Plains Dairy Expo. It will be held in the auditorium of the Denny Sanford PREMIER ...