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Beef safety and environmental protection are important aspects of feedlot production. Reporters have blamed intensive livestock operations or “factory farms” as the primary sector responsible for contaminating food and water sources with pathogenic bacteria that make humans ill. Extremists have called for drastic regulations to curtail or ban intensive livestock production. Environmental or food safety […] Read more

Are you a farmer? Or are you a business manager? Are you improving the profitability of your agribusiness? Or someone else’s? For generations now we have been taught the fundamentals of the family farm by our fathers. The dilemma I have with that is that the fundamentals are all on production. We have been taught […] Read more

The January 1, 2009 cattle inventory reports show continued herd reductions in both Canada and the U. S. The liquidation of the North American beef sector has been joined by the U. S. dairy sector in the last quarter of 2008 and first quarter of 2009 as falling milk prices encourage herd reduction. CANADIAN INVENTORIES […] Read more

Temping Temping is an extremely important task since it determines whether an animal needs further treatment. As such, taking the temperature of an animal is the first step in preventive herd health management. The feedlot and animal health crews may even wish to consider using a different processing program depending on the temperature of the […] Read more