Daily Network News

More News →

Features

Features

A QUICK WAY TO SPOT PREGNANT HEIFERS

By
Pregnant heifers in the feedlot cost owners time and money regardless of how they are managed. A management program designed with input from a veterinarian can help to minimize losses and address a situation that’s not of the feedlot’s own making. Veterinarian Andrew Bronson of BioCheck Veterinarian Diagnostics and Technologies at Lethbridge, Alta. has designed […] Read more
Features

Early-seeded annuals preserve perennial pastures

By
Swath grazing is typically used as a way to provide high-quality forage for cattle on pasture through the fall and early-winter months. A “rested grazing project,” in its third year at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s Brandon Research Centre, is showing that moving swath grazing to the late summer has the potential to increase grazing days […] Read more
Features

The Economics Of Change

By
The powers of observation, imagination, evaluation and choice employed by today’s cow-calf operators have set in motion a tide of structural change toward lower-cost production. It’s the type of business evolution that happens once in a generation. An economic analysis of hundreds of records from Alberta Agriculture’s AgriProfit$ program data shows how beef producers in […] Read more
Features

Supplying Your Own Power

By
Each of the four western provinces now has regulations in place to allow homeowners, farms and/or small businesses to generate their own electrical power and connect to the provincial distribution grid. Farm energy option seminars were held in Saskatchewan and Alberta this past year to familiarize people with the programs and technologies available. Size limits […] Read more
home-built solar energy collector
Features

Home-built solar basics

By
I recently had the privilege of talking to two groups of producers in Saskatchewan regarding construction of solar water systems. We run a wide variety of systems in our operation, and they are basically built using the principle of being the most cost-effective solution for our problem. Included in these solutions are gas pumps, nose […] Read more
Features

Making Quarantine Pay

By
A memo board in John Buckley’s Buck-office tells the story of how quickly a successful operation went downhill with the announcement of one Alberta cow testing positive for BSE. The Lindsay, Ont., producer of champion Holstein cows saw the value of his herd drop to 10 per cent of its book value within a month. […] Read more
Features

Bale Grazing — Is It Grazing?

By
I have found a lot of disbelievers in my travels. “Bale grazing is not grazing” they say. The funny thing is, once someone tries it, they won’t go back to feeding cattle in the traditional manner. Bale grazing is a method of feeding harvested feed but with one unique difference. You are using a grazing […] Read more
Features

Pros And Cons Of Plastic, Sisal And Net Wrap For Bale Grazing

Producers have tried various types of twine and tactics to avoid having to fight to remove frozen twine from round bales on a frigid day. It’s time consuming, frustrating and at time dangerous when you have cows pushing around the bales as you are trying to unpeel some frozen twine. Dropping unwrapped bales to be […] Read more
Features

Rebuilding Optimism In Canadian Beef

By
The Canada Beef Export Federation’s (CBEF) 2009 exporter member survey held some disquieting news for the Canadian beef industry. The export members’ combined expectations for exports in the benchmark year of 2015 was 521,000 tonnes, with 60 per cent going to the U.S. This is 279,000 tonnes less than their 2015 expectations three years ago, […] Read more

Canadian Cattlemen Presents: Depth of Field

Glacier Farmmedia Podcast

AgCanadaTV

AGCanadaTV: In case you missed it; your national ag news recap for Sept. 5, 2025

Sponsored By:
More Videos →

Latest Market News

More Market News →