Sometimes a calf loses its mother or has a mother that won’t accept it or can’t feed it. Many ranchers have raised calves on bottles. It might be an orphan or a twin—and the mother doesn’t have enough ...

One sixth generation cattle producer from southwest Kansas wasn’t planning on coming back home. But now it would take an awful lot of convincing for him to leave. Laton Dowling, with Dowling Cattle ...

Keeping cattle numbers (and the size of the cows—and how much they eat) in line with what the ranch produces is also more profitable than expanding the herd size or cow size to the point we’d need to ...