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GrowSafe Systems of Airdrie, Alta. has made its name known to beef researchers worldwide since its introduction of its GrowSafe feed intake and behaviour monitoring units in 2000. The company took that experience and knowledge to the next level in 2003 when it began developing GrowSafe Beef (GSB) — an automated watering system that monitors […] Read more

What’s the value to me?” That’s the first question producers ask of any new product or service and, as such, it became the founding principle of Cow/Calf Health Management Services (CCHMS), owned and operated by Dr. Troy Drake from his clinic on the farm near Kathyrn, Alta. CCHMS is a unique package of herd health […] Read more

Did you know that a cow may spend up to eight hours every day chewing her cud for as many as 30,000 chews a day? Or, that all of the nutrients that the calf worked so hard to digest make the meat full of ZIP — zinc, iron and protein? If you are involved with […] Read more

Andy and Margaret Schuepbach of Lilybrook Herefords run anywhere from 500 to 700 purebred Horned Herefords on their ranch east of Claresholm, Alta. As such they have a shared history with Fredrick W. Stone of Guelph, Ont., who imported the first Herefords from Britain in 1860. Stone’s experiment worked so well that others started to […] Read more

Talk to anyone at a branding and they’ll tell you they come out to help because it’s fun — it’s work that has to be done — but it’s still fun. The underlying message is that even though farms and ranches keep getting larger and distances between them keep getting wider, you don’t have to […] Read more