Mother Nature always has its say during the spring calving season. Megan Overby at Binford, North Dakota, says it could always be worse. “Looking out the window now, and I can see green grass, so not a lot of complaints in the weather department.” The Overbys have about 25 percent of their calving complete. “These calves, they’re coming early. They’re still full-term, but typically most of ours are coming ten days early, and they are big. I don’t know if it has to do with the nutrition of the cows, and it was a pretty mild winter for the most part, so they were easy to feed and keep. That’s just been the trend at our place, these calves have been coming just a tick early, full term, and they’re good-sized, which, with the price of cattle right now, who doesn’t want that, right?” Overby was a farm broadcaster for RRFN from 2017 to 2021.
