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Graeme Finn’s pasture with alfalfa, Glenview sainfoin and cicer milkvetch, all legumes that help boost fertility.
Cow-Calf, Features, Livestock

Feeding cows for fertility

The right vitamin and mineral package, and high-quality forage, can boost a herd’s conception rate

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The year is 1993 and Graeme Finn is saying goodbye to the blue skies and heat of Australia, replacing them with the gentle hills and crisp winters of Madden, Alta. Here, he starts a beef operation with his wife, Heather and their two daughters. With 2,800 acres of pasture rented, Finn is passionate about using […] Read more
Colleen and Dylan Biggs of TK Ranch, with locations near Calgary and Hanna, Alta.
Beef Cattle, Features

Direct marketing in the COVID age

Two Alberta businesswomen talk shop about how the pandemic has shaped the direct marketing landscape for beef producers

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It is a changed world. The time spent in pandemic lockdowns has completely altered consumer behaviour. Perhaps it has sped up trends that were already in place, such as concerns about how food was grown or raised, convenience and ease of online purchasing. According to a recent article in the Harvard Business Review on Marketing […] Read more
Research organizations have adapted to cuts to extension by partnering with other agencies, or adopting different innovative practices, to bring knowledge from the lab or research farm to working farms and ranches.
Features, Livestock

Getting livestock research into practice

With the decline in government extension, other organizations have shifted gears to try to cover some of that ground

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The large gaps left when governments stopped providing a full range of on-the-ground advisory services to farmers are slowly getting filled with useful and accessible resources, according to industry experts.  “In the 1990s in Ontario, the Ministry of Agriculture cut those services and it meant different sectors reacted differently with no defined process,” says Mike […] Read more
Calvin Gavelin discusses his poly-crop seed blend with representatives from A&W Canada and Cana- dian Geographic Magazine. Gavelin’s farm is one of the Living Labs sites.
Features, Livestock

Agriculture Canada launches new Living Lab project at Saskatchewan’s South of the Divide

The producer-centred project will look at how land managers can mitigate climate change on the Prairies, as well as promote biodiversity and provide other benefits

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There is a group of ranchers in southwest Saskatchewan that is very active in maintaining the native rangelands. Over the years these ranchers, who are part of the South of the Divide Conservation Action Program, have aimed to maintain their conservation plan, benefiting the environment in their community in the southwest. The South of the […] Read more
Ranchers herding cattle. Running a ranch business means not only managing production, but also economics and finance, marketing and people.
Beef Cattle, Features, Livestock

Profitable ranching — is it possible?

If you’re trying to improve your ranch’s profitability, here are a few things to consider

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While not intending to offend anyone, I will express some concerns that may do just that. Most of the conventionally managed ranches on the North American continent are not profitable. A few are. Many are just breaking even when you take an average of good and bad years. And, quite a few are going broke. […] Read more
I agree that we should reduce fertilizer use and that we need to worry about the environment, but we also have to worry about the people.
Features, Livestock

Farmers need nitrogen

Let’s focus on increasing the carbon content in our soils

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There sure is a lot of fuss about nitrogen right now. Farmers are protesting the new rules about nitrogen use and I get it. When your way of life is jeopardized, it is only natural to push back. I want to stress that we can’t forget about the human element in this situation. For years, […] Read more
The Fossen family, Rock Creek, B.C.
Beef Cattle, Features

Ranching in a tough environment

The Fossen family seeks to improve the environment and cut wildfire risk at their ranch in southern B.C.

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It’s the night of the banquet at the Canadian Beef Industry Conference (CBIC) in Penticton, B.C. Cowboy hats are found sporadically throughout the room. Banquet staff have cleared supper plates, and now the crowd’s attention is focused on Duane Thompson with the Canadian Cattle Association (CCA) as he lists all the nominees for the Environmental […] Read more
The 2030 Canadian Beef Goals Panel from the Canadian Beef Industry Conference in Pentiction, B.C. Brenna Grant is third from left.
Features, Livestock

2030 Canadian Beef Goals highlight carbon emissions

Unpacking the carbon emission goals, the ongoing research and what it all means for Canada’s beef producers

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On a stage with the lights dimmed, Brenna Grant sits with several other industry professionals, looking out on a room full of people. From all over the country, they’ve met in Penticton, B.C., to discuss the future of their industry at the Canadian Beef Industry Conference. One of those possible futures is encompassed in the […] Read more
Garner Deobald’s Charolais heifers eat canola meal from a trough during his work with the canola meal research project.
Canola, Features, Livestock

Canola meal for cattle. What are the gains?

An on-ranch research project analyzes the costs and gains of feeding canola meal to yearlings

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Hodgeville, Sask., looks like it could be a postcard for the province — surrounded by flat fields and cattle grazing in nearby pastures, while an old elevator stands watch at the edge of town on Railroad Avenue, just like so many other small towns in the Canadian Prairies.   In contrast, Big Muddy Valley, located near […] Read more

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