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Lice may not be the only culprits causing itching. Environmental sensitivities, premature seasonal shedding and dry skin could also drive cattle to scratch.
Beef Cattle, Features, Livestock, Parasites

Itchy cattle? It may not be lice

Everything from nutritional deficiencies to mites can trigger scratching in cattle

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A spike in complaints about its product’s ineffectiveness against itchy cattle drove Solvet, a Canadian veterinary pharmaceutical firm, to investigate the potential causes and to look for relief. “This has become a bigger problem than it used to be,” says Dr. Denis Nagel, a consulting veterinarian with the company, as well as with Alberta Veterinary […] Read more
Checking cattle at a feedlot. Researchers are working on a new test to identify the type of bacteria behind individual cases of bovine respiratory disease.
Beef Cattle, Features, Livestock

Eliminating guesswork with an accurate chute-side BRD test

Researchers are working on a simple test that would detect the presence of three common BRD-causing bacteria

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Bovine respiratory disease (BRD) has long been the most serious respiratory challenge facing the beef industry, causing half of all cattle deaths from disease in North America. Its identification in individual animals almost always comes after the bacterial infection has established itself, causing an antibiotic response to play from behind. During a networking event in […] Read more
American dog ticks wait for a host to walk by. Ticks carry bacteria that can cause diseases in human and animals alike.
Features, Livestock

Tick paralysis

Veterinary Case Study: These small insects can cause big health problems in livestock and pets alike

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Wyatt managed a community pasture southeast of Regina. Being an excellent horseman, one of the gratuities his job offered was starting young horses for clients, the opportunity to instill cow-sense into green horses while conditioning them, readying them for competition and ranch life.  Wyatt’s call conveyed panic. He had found a promising and expensive filly […] Read more
Calvin Gavelin (centre) is surrounded by field day attendees as he talks about his cover crops during the Prairie South Holistic Management field day.
Beef Cattle, Crops, Features

Saskatchewan family shares passion for cover cropping

The Gavelin family finds their cover crops perform well even under adverse conditions

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Dark clouds roll in as a charter bus drives down gravel roads near McCord, Sask. Marla Gavelin, one of the people hosting the field day from the Prairie South Holistic Management group, speaks to the people in attendance. She compares the Gavelins’ farm to the Sahara Desert with a fond laugh, and the 70-plus people […] Read more
A side of beef. The grading system is the common language of the industry, writes Charlie Gracey.
Beef Cattle, Features

Show us the money, Part 2: Balancing beef carcass quality and yield

Only by sharing grading information can the industry signal market demand to cow-calf producers

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In my previous column, our editor kept me on track when she titled it Show Us the Money. That was appropriate because I have noted that cattle producers do follow the money. That is to say, they absolutely do respond to market signals, but when no such signal exists, they can’t. In this column, I […] Read more
Cryptosporidium parvum oocysts taken from a human. Producers dealing with a crypto outbreak should keep in mind that the parasite can infect both cattle and people.
Cow-Calf, Features, Livestock, Scours

Introducing outside calves heightens crypto risk

Cryptosporidium parvum is a disease that’s easy to introduce and hard to manage in a beef herd

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In the cold, wet pastures of a gruelling Manitoba spring near Oakville, Man., Garth McCormick needed a calf to put on one of his cows who had lost her calf, but didn’t have any he could use on his own farm. His hired man brought a calf from his own place to McCormick’s. Immediately, the […] Read more
A steer panting excessively due to heat stress.
Animal Health, Beef Cattle, Features

Warmer weather boosts ergot risk in cattle

Researchers found symptoms ranging from decreased weight gain to heat stress even though ergot levels in feed didn’t breach CFIA limits

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New research has found that feedlot cattle can develop problems when fed ergot even within allowable limits. Ergot is a fungus that can grow on certain grasses and grain plants when moisture conditions are just right. It becomes a problem mainly after a wet growing season. The fungus replaces the seed head with a dark […] Read more
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Features

FCC offers sustainability incentive to beef producers

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In a bid to boost sustainable beef production, the ag lender is presenting payments to its CRSB-certified customers

Cattle producers have a new partner in their sustainability drive. While momentum along the beef value chain has been steadily building since the creation of the Canadian Roundtable for Sustainable Beef (CRSB), a financial institution has now stepped up to encourage participation in the CRSB certification program. The concept is innovative and simple. Farm Credit […] Read more
Cattle liners at Red Deer, Alta. CFIA is requiring Transfer of Care documents for both short and long haul.
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Auction marts, cattle groups apprehensive about Transfer of Care requirements

Industry leaders cite good track record on animal welfare, ask for short-haul exemption

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Pacing the stage, Reg Schellenberg urged producers to take charge of the Transfer of Care issue, which will require more documentation from people hauling cattle near and far. “If you take the lead as producers, you own it,” he says. “If the government takes the lead, they own it. We know what that’ll be like. […] Read more

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