Rye Archives - Canadian Cattlemen

Comment: Keep your pencil sharp

“The most important tool on the farm is the pencil.” That was the best farming advice Mike Buis ever received, and it came from his grandfather. Buis recently conducted a virtual tour of his family’s Chatham, Ont., beef farm for the Canadian Farm Writers’ Federation. Coincidentally, a day or two before the Buis Beef tour, […] Read more

The Co-op Ethanol Complex at Belle Plaine, Sask. (FCL.crs)

Cereals, Corn, Crops, Machinery, Weather

Co-op to capture carbon at ethanol plant, refinery

FCL, Whitecap sign agreement to sequester fuel plants' CO2

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News 4 days ago

A major Prairie ethanol and fuel producer is posed to spend just over half a billion dollars on a system to capture and sequester carbon dioxide from its operations in Saskatchewan. Federated Co-operatives announced Thursday it had signed a memo of understanding with Calgary-based ‘clean energy’ company Whitecap Resources, in which the latter company will […] Read more

Corn is a common winter grazing crop, but corn alone may not meet the protein needs of all cattle that consume it. Intercropping can help fill the protein gap.

Livestock, Research

Is this a good investment?

Research on the Record with Reynold Bergen

By Reynold Bergen October 21, 2021

The Beef Cattle Research Council (BCRC) projects featured in this column are funded by the Canadian Beef Cattle Check-Off. When the check-off increased a few years ago, the BCRC’s budget rose from around 15 cents to 67 cents per head marketed. This allowed us to start some new research programs. Now that we’re a few […] Read more

Cereals, Crops

VIDEO: Adding fall rye to your production plan

By Canadian Cattlemen Staff September 29, 2021

Herman Wehrle of FP Genetics talks about some of the advancements in hybrid fall rye and how it can fit into your livestock feeding plan – both as a grain and a forage source – and the benefits it can offer for growers and cattle producers. (Video previously recorded for Ag in Motion 2021)

Crops, Markets

Sask. Crop Report: Half of winter wheat, fall rye crops harvested

By Adam Peleshaty, GFM Network News August 12, 2021

MarketsFarm – While a few scattered showers across Saskatchewan delayed some of the harvest, the hot and dry weather has allowed farmers to make more progress than last year. Seven per cent of the province’s crop has been combined and six per cent is ready to straight combine, according to the Province of Saskatchewan’s weekly […] Read more

Cows grazing winter wheat and fall rye in September 2018.

Cereals, Crops, Forages

Adding winter cereal crops to the annual forage mix

Dr. Vern Baron makes the case for winter cereals as cow chow

By Heather Smith Thomas June 22, 2021

Spring barley and oats are typical annual forage choices for many beef producers, but winter cereals can add forage flexibility to beef cattle diets. Dr. Vern S. Baron has worked with forage crops since the 1980s — with a master’s and PhD in corn production and physiology. Much of that time has been with Agriculture […] Read more

Rye ready for chopping at milky head stage.

Cereals, Features, Forages

Hybrid fall rye offers high yield, flexibility to beef producers

This relatively new forage can be grown for grazing, silage or grain, and can fit into double-cropping systems

By Heather Smith Thomas June 14, 2021

Hybrid fall rye is one of the newer forage options available today, and can be a good fit to producers looking for a high-yielding feed with flexibility. Herman Wehrle, director of commercialization and market development at FP Genetics, says his job is to bring new crops to the marketplace. “After five years of commercialization, we […] Read more

Yearling steers grazed each site for about 30 to 40 days in August and September for three years.

Features, Livestock

Grazing binary forage mixtures during the summer slump

A University of Saskatchewan study evaluates new grass and legume varieties at two different soil zones in the province

By Piper Whelan April 23, 2021

Grazing grass and legume mixtures in late summer and fall has the potential for promising gains, research conducted in south and central Saskatchewan shows. There are proven benefits to including a legume in a mixture to improve grass pastures. But researchers at the University of Saskatchewan’s Livestock and Forage Centre of Excellence (LFCE) saw an […] Read more

Crops, Reuters

U.S. Supreme Court agrees to hear biofuel waiver case

By Reuters, GFM Network News January 11, 2021

Reuters — The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to review a lower court ruling that severely limited the government’s powers to exempt small refineries from the nation’s biofuels law, rekindling a long-running dispute between the oil and corn industries. The decision came after appeals by refining companies that argued the 10th Circuit Court’s decision […] Read more

Crops, Machinery

Railways overshoot grain revenue limits for 2019-20

Grain revenues run $5.3 million over caps, CTA rules

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News January 7, 2021

Canada’s big two railways have about two more weeks to hand over about $5.6 million in Prairie grain revenue overages and related penalties for the 2019-20 crop year. The Canadian Transportation Agency (CTA) on Dec. 22 ruled Canadian National Railway (CN) and Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) each overshot their maximum revenue entitlements (MREs) for the […] Read more

U.S. grains: Corn futures rally; pull soybean, wheat prices higher

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures hit near two-month high as cash markets firm

CBOT weekly outlook: Potential U.S.-China trade deal moving markets

GFM Network News