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Mycotoxins know no bounds
Features, Livestock

Mycotoxins know no bounds

DON is the No. 1 mycotoxin found in several Canadian cereal crops

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Awesome turned awful as September rolled into October with its short wet days and longer wet nights downgrading many cereal crops to feed quality across the Prairies. To make matters worse, a lot of grain that did make it into the bin was infected with fusarium and to a lesser extent with ergot. The fusarium […] Read more
An industry in crisis
Cow-Calf, Features

An industry in crisis

Is there a way back? Cow-calf producers hold the key

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A cattle-feeding industry that by year-end will have lost an estimated billion dollars since August 2015 plus a cow-calf sector that has lost more than one million cows and over 20,000 producers in the past decade strongly suggests an industry in crisis. Cattle feeders might be excused if they are not quite as optimistic about […] Read more
Veronica McGuire, executive director of the CFIA’s regulatory and trade policy program.
Features, Livestock

Mandatory premise ID on CFIA agenda

It is one of the provisions included in planned amendments and regulations

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Over the next couple of years, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) is moving to improve the effectiveness of Canada’s Livestock Traceability System by nailing down where all classes of livestock are produced, what type of animals they are and where they move. In regulations now being developed, both premise identification and animal movement are […] Read more
Intestinal lesions caused by Johne's disease.
Features

When Johne’s hits home

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Dr. Meaghan Crawford’s empathy for the family that discovered Johne’s disease in their young beef herd was evident as she spoke about her involvement with the case during her time as a veterinary student at Calgary. A cow and two heifers showing severe weight loss and diarrhea were brought into the rural clinic where she […] Read more
Nine per cent of roasts and eight per cent of steaks carried traceability claims; less than two per cent carried claims related to animal diets.
Features

Opportunities in the retail meat case

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Seventy retail store visits and more than 21,000 packages of beef later, findings from the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association’s National Retail Meat Case study are coming together. This is the first big-picture view of how the beef you produce is being marketed to Canadian consumers. “Asking consumers what they would like to buy is not always […] Read more
cattle on a pasture
Features, Livestock

What’s the margin?

Do you know the economics behind your production practices?

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Even though the production components of your business are important, they don’t make or break it for you. The most important part of any business is in managing the business itself. The economics and finances behind the production practices are more important than the production practice itself. Two producers can use the same production practice. […] Read more
Producers can feed test standing crops by grabbing 20 to 25 samples, says Bart Lardner.
Features, Forages, Livestock

Cut cereal crops later, feed more cows

Support for cutting barley, oat crops at the hard-dough stage grows

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The recommendation to cut barley crops at the early-dough stage and oat crops at the late-milk stage for silage has by default been the standing recommendation for stage of maturity to cut these cereals for greenfeed and swath grazing as well. Findings by a University of Saskatchewan team of researchers with the animal science and […] Read more
Burrs on Cow
Features, Forages, Livestock

Beating back burdock

Invasive weed species can affect both pasture and profit

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Burdock is an invasive plant that causes problems for livestock and crops, and is generally considered a noxious weed. The tall burdock plant, a native of Eurasia, is a biennial, which means it lives for two growing seasons. The first year, it merely grows leaves and accumulates food reserves in its roots, like a carrot. […] Read more
“If your reason for choosing to be a vet isn’t for the love of animals, then you are probably in the wrong profession.” Dr. Bob Evenson, veterinarian, Tisdale, Sask.
Features, Livestock

For the love of animals

Animal care is at the forefront for veterinarian Dr. Bob Evenson

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Dr. Bob Evenson made a swift entry into the real world of veterinary medicine the first morning of his career when he delivered a calf by C-section only to return to the clinic to find out that another case 30 miles north would be the second of what would add up to more than 4,000 […] Read more
Mike and 
Daicya Munton
Beef Cattle, Features

Benchmark brings feed efficiency home

Seedstock: Munton family aims to raise the bar on bringing up bulls

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Benchmark Angus near Warner, Alta., has worked diligently to earn its reputation as “your carcass source.” Not content to rest on Benchmark’s laurels of consistently raising top-ranking marbling and muscling bulls in the Canadian Angus Association’s registry, the Munton family is aiming to up the bar by doing it more efficiently. A year ago this […] Read more

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