Backgrounding calves in a drylot system through the fall and winter months can be challenging in Western Canada due to high feed and input costs. Winter feeding costs are a major contributor to the overall cost of production for cow-calf producers. Traditionally, these costs are due to feeding cows in drylot pens over the winter […] Read more
Bart Lardner
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Bart Lardner is a professor and the Ministry of Agriculture Strategic Research Program Chair in Cow-Calf and Forage Systems in the animal and poultry science department at the University of Saskatchewan.