Friday 5th December 2025

A central Missouri farmer says the swings in temperature and conditions have been tough on his spring born calves.

“This wet, cold snow on them, just the cold weather, we’re just so up and down [and] we need to plane out and level out,” Nathan Alpers said. “We’ll be checking them, but I suspect we’ll have a few respiratory pneumonia issues.”

Alpers tells Brownfield recent cold spikes are also creating feeding concerns.

   

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