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The Agri-Trend Group of Companies is in the process of launching a new program for livestock producers under the umbrella of its Agri-Trend Agrology network. Founded in 1997 by Alberta native Rob Saik, Agri-Trend has evolved to encompass five companies: Agri-Trend Agrology, Agri-Trend Aggregation, Agri-Trend Marketing, Agri-Trend Data Corp. and Agri-Trend GEO Solutions. Headquartered at […] Read more

No year will likely ever match 2003 as a standout in the history of Canada’s beef industry but 2011 may rank a close second as government and industry move toward implementing full mandatory traceability of cattle. Following the annual meeting in July of 2009 the federal, provincial and territorial agriculture ministers announced a mandatory national […] Read more

As Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada moves ahead with implementing full traceability of livestock next year, they will at some point have to start reporting the movement of cattle at the 84 federally managed communal pastures in Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Alberta. The government’s own trials with panel and wand readers to track cattle in or out […] Read more

* ern and Vivienne Pancoast have never shied away from striking out in new directions. Their openness to trying new ideas and technology has seen their first-generation farm, * &* Farms, near Redcliff, Alta. grow from one quarter and a few cows back in the 1970s into a mixed grain and beef operation with 300 […] Read more

Sheldon and Gerry Scheck had two goals in mind when they moved home from Alberta to the Scheck family farm near Cactus Lake, Sask. in 1997. They wanted to raise a family and become organic farmers. Today, with their family of four, they are making a name for their farm, Cactus Organics, by producing quality […] Read more

The fourth update of Alberta Agriculture’s popular ration balancing and feed management program, CowBytes (version 5), was on track to be released in early December. More than 2,500 ranchers, extension personnel, and feed company representatives in Canada, the U.S. and abroad have purchased the program since it was first released in 1989, while numerous colleges […] Read more