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When we think about reducing overhead, we often see we can get along with less equipment or fewer horses, but we are emotionally attached, and it becomes very difficult.
Features, Management

The essentials for profitable ranching: Part two

Burke Teichert discusses the remaining three essentials, as he sees them

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In my last article I introduced the “five essentials” for profitable ranching and discussed the first two. The five essentials are: We will now continue. Planning and decision-making tools Acquire and use a good set of planning and decision-making tools. Today’s computers and cell phones make this job quite easy. We need accurate information to […] Read more
Kate and John Anderson, Merritt, B.C.
Associations, Features

Rebuilding relationships between Indigenous and ranching communities in B.C.

The B.C. Cattlemen’s Association and First Nations communities are looking for common ground and ways to support Indigenous producers

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British Columbia is the epitome of “land” with all its different landscapes — the rolling hills that turn into snow-capped mountains, the rainforests in the south and boreal forests in the north, the salty beaches on the coast and prairie near the Alberta border. This land is important to so many of the people who […] Read more
Dr. Dinesh Dadarwal (DVM, PhD, Diplomate ACT) will participate in a study at the LFCE, looking at the use of “ag-tech” to track cows during the calving season.
Beef Cattle, Features

Scientist to expand his reproductive health research to beef cattle

A University of Saskatchewan veterinarian is exploring how research into the reproductive health of dairy cows as well as emerging technologies can be applied to beef cattle

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University of Saskatchewan – “I think there are some clues on the dairy side that have been ignored on the beef side,” said Dr. Dinesh Dadarwal (DVM, PhD, Diplomate ACT), an assistant professor in the Department of Large Animal Clinical Sciences at the Western College of Veterinary Medicine. While Dadarwal is focused on cattle research, animal science […] Read more
Don Campbell poses by the cow herd in April 2023.
Beef Cattle, Features, People

Don Campbell on lifelong learning and personal growth

This long-time rancher and educator reflects on how holistic management has helped him make better decisions

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Meadow Lake rancher Don Campbell has long been a holistic management advocate and a catalyst for change. Campbell and his wife Bev are household names within the global holistic management community, but Campbell also garnered a mainstream audience of beef and forage producers as a long-time contributor to Canadian Cattlemen. Campbell’s career as a rancher and […] Read more
Green needle grass in a pasture of native prairie near Hanley, Sask. Plants function differently within diverse polycutures than monocultures.
Features, Management

Essentials for profitable ranching: Part one

What makes a profitable ranch? Burke Teichert introduces his five ‘essentials’ and unpacks the first two

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Since the end of World War Two, we have been developing a ranching and farming culture more dependent on fossil fuel, iron, synthetic fertilizers and chemicals. Early on those inputs (tractors, vehicles, equipment, seed, fertilizer, pesticides, herbicides, etc.) were relatively inexpensive. During the last 60 years, those input prices have increased more rapidly than the […] Read more
cow herd in aspen
Features, Livestock

Cows can control Canada thistle and brush

Managed grazing is one way to suppress aspen and thistles in your pasture

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Last fall, while driving through central Alberta and Saskatchewan, I saw pasture after pasture full of mature Canada thistle and aspen regrowth, which reduce available forage. Over the years, research has found that rotational grazing can help control these weedy outbreaks. The main reason for rotational grazing is to give plants a chance to regrow […] Read more
Mark Hoimyr stands in front of his cattle as he addresses attendees at the Canadian Farm Writers Conference in September of 2022.
Features, Livestock

Box H Ranch explores severe grazing

Laura and Mark Hoimyr focus on longer rest periods on their ranch in southeastern Saskatchewan

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It’s a September afternoon when a large charter bus coasts down the back roads near Gladmar, Sask. The hills roll like waves, and the bus rolls with them, inducing nausea. Before long, the bus slows, then stops. Farm journalists and communicators, part of the Canadian Farm Writers’ Federation annual conference, file off the bus and […] Read more
A large sprinkler waters a crop of carrots during dry conditions. The Nova Scotia Federation of Agri- culture is connecting livestock and vegetable producers to graze cropland.
Crops, Features, Livestock

Farmer seeking grazier: Matching crop and livestock producers to graze cropland

Manitoba and Nova Scotia farm groups are connecting producers interested in integrating livestock into crop production

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Getting livestock back on the landscape — that is the goal for the Manitoba Grazing Exchange and a Living Labs initiative in Nova Scotia. And it benefits more than the livestock. The Manitoba Grazing Exchange started in 2021 as a partnership between the Manitoba Forage and Grassland Association and Manitoba Organic Alliance. “It is a […] Read more
A protective cow stands over her calf. The Griswolds’ cows crossed the line from protective to down- right aggressive, making on-farm vet calls challenging.
Cow-Calf, Features, Livestock

Mud and ornery heifer make veterinary practice ‘fun’

Veterinary Case Study: Ron introduces a vet student to the fine art of managing manure, mud and high-strung heifers

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Unfortunately, not all parts of any professional undertaking are characterized by grandeur despite excruciating hours of study, diagnostic challenges and creating positive financial outcomes for clients. There are memories less rosy than scrubbed Wellingtons, freshly laundered coveralls and starched lab coats. The bad things about large animal practice often involved mud and unseasonable snowfall driven […] Read more
Working with cattle is Phinney’s preferred job on his New Brunswick farm.
Features

New CCA president has national view from Maritime farm

Nathan Phinney, the first CCA president from the East, is keen on connecting beef producers from one coast to the other

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Early in the morning, just as the sun peeks over the horizon, Nathan Phinney is already working on his farm near Moncton, New Brunswick. He spends his morning working cattle, his preferred job on the farm. Through and through, Phinney is a cattleman. “I’ve been farming since I was able to walk,” he says. But […] Read more

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