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Understanding cattle cognition and adopting strategies to enhance it can improve their well-being, worker safety and production.

OSU Extension specialist Dwight Roseler details ways to improve dairy cow health via best practices during silage and forage harvests.

Learn more about water quality factors that affect water intake and may be difficult to pinpoint without testing your water sources.

Ohio State Extension educator Maurice Eastridge sheds light on the importance of biosecurity on dairy farms.

Ohio State Extension educator Garth Ruff offers advice on how to feed livestock and conserve resources amid drought.

Reproductive performance needs to be monitored year round but especially in the summer when cows are experiencing heat stress and feeds are changing.

Learn what conditions and characteristics can increase the risk for vomitoxins in straw.

The environmental conditions and the high metabolic rate of today’s dairy cows producing over 100 pounds/day of milk results in a lot of heat to dissipate.

A free, two-hour workshop designed to help producers make informed decisions about replacement heifers is coming to three Pennsylvania locations in April.

With a substantial up-front cost in buying cattle this spring, summer grazing is as risky as it has ever been. However, better management can help.