Rancher Ali Petersen, of Tekamah, Neb., helps a mini-Hereford calf take its first step eight hours after it was born. Tekamah, Neb.? Walking through their lowing herd of several hundred cattle, Ali ...

Rusk High School senior Kendall Filer, left, won Grand Champion Mini Hereford one day after her cow, Winnie, went through a difficult birth to baby Wyatt. The 74th annual Cherokee County Junior ...

She was a heifer barely waist high from the pastures of Silverton, Oregon, but Mae had the sparkle of a beauty pageant queen as a crew of extras powdered her flanks and shaved the peach fuzz from her ...

It is the job of the female in the herd to get pregnant in the first or second cycle, give birth easily, wean a fast-growing calf and then get back into calf again. Hereford producer Tom Nixon said ...