
Unconventional: Salvaging crops and feeding weeds during drought
Whether you’re eyeing a flax crop or baling ditches and sloughs, here’s what you need to know about alternative feeds

Focusing on the big picture
Whether it’s managing the cow herd or lobbying on Parliament Hill, Holly Sparrow is in a learning frame of mind

Mini-internships give ag students hands-on farm experience
A University of Alberta program connects urban students to farmers, and gives farm kids new ag experience, too

Adding winter cereal crops to the annual forage mix
Dr. Vern Baron makes the case for winter cereals as cow chow

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

Working with farming neighbours to graze crop residue
Here’s how a cow-calf producer is extending the grazing season by working with local farmers

Preventing weak calf syndrome
Factors ranging from cow nutrition to weather to disease can cause this often complex condition

New book details Speckle Park breed’s beginnings
A Saskatchewan producer has drawn on extensive documents and photos to tell the story of the breed’s founding

B.C. producer narrows in on what customers want in beef
Health, environment and animal welfare top priorities for Edgar Smith’s customers on Vancouver Island and in the lower mainland

Mentorship program leads Manitoba producer to regenerative ag
After participating in the Cattlemen’s Young Leaders program, Brett McRae rejigged his mixed farm to abide by the five principles of soil health