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Rustlers take more than your cattle

Be sure you can identify your animals

By Debbie Furber May 13, 2016

Nearly six years after 10 bred heifers were stolen from them, Glenn and Christine Strube still feel the lingering stress of the long, drawn-out court process that ended with a guilty verdict. Most disturbing is knowing that the crime wasn’t committed by a fly-by-night thief, but by a neighbour who blatantly lied about it. Little […] Read more

Beef Cattle, Features

URGENT: More temporary foreign workers needed

By Debbie Furber April 29, 2016

Beef producers and packers may not always see eye to eye, but on two things they definitely agree — there’s a critical and chronic labour shortage at farms, ranches, feedlots and packing plants across the country and this issue needs a quick fix. Not a Band-Aid-style quick fix, but a well-thought-out strategy put into action […] Read more

Features, Livestock

Absinth. An obnoxious weed for pastures

By Debbie Furber April 27, 2016

As the rains of 2010 brought signs of an end to a battering 10-year drought, Marj Veno could see that absinth wormwood was getting the upper hand in pastures around the ranch’s home place northeast of Hanna, Alta. Absinth first reared its ugly yellow-flowered head in the pasture west of the yard on the old […] Read more

Features, Forages

What perennial forage should I seed this year?

By Duane McCartney April 25, 2016

Cattle grazers all across Canada have a wide choice of perennial forage species that they can seed this year. But how do producers pick a species and variety to grow in their respective areas? The question of seeding in mixtures has always been a puzzle. In the 1960s and early 1970s, seed mixtures contained 17 […] Read more

The first thing to plant to improve your pastures is more posts.

Features, Forages, Research

Spring is here: What to plant?

By Steve Kenyon April 22, 2016

A very common question that I receive at many of my conferences or seminars is, “What should we plant?” They are of course referring to the type of forage species to seed into their overgrazed pastures? This might seem like a pretty straightforward question but I always catch producers off guard with my answer. They […] Read more

Features, Forages, Livestock

Seeing the ranch as a classroom

Learning is a way of life at the Bar K

By Debbie Furber April 13, 2016

[UPDATED: Feb. 10, 2025] The Bar K Ranch has changed hands since this article was written in 2016. The current owners have a different management approach, and no longer use horses for the regular ranch work. From 400 auction market cows in the early 1980s, Bar K Ranch has evolved into a modern beef operation […] Read more

Features, Livestock

Storage and care of livestock vaccines

By Heather Smith Thomas April 4, 2016

We can’t always control how an animal responds to the vaccines we give (in terms of immune response, which can be affected by many factors including health issues and stress levels) but we do have complete control over how we handle and store the vaccines, to make sure they will be optimally potent. Russ Daly, […] Read more

Features, Livestock

Richardson Ranch at the end of the world

By Duane McCartney April 1, 2016

Visiting the famous Richardson Ranch on Haida Gwaii, formerly known as Queen Charlotte Islands, off the northern coast of British Columbia has been on my bucket list for many years. I was all set to go back in 2001 when I phoned Don Richardson and he indicated that it had been raining for 40 days […] Read more

Features, Livestock

Be prepared for calls if you winter graze

Grazing with Steve Kenyon from the March 2016 issue of Canadian Cattlemen

By Steve Kenyon March 28, 2016

I was excited this fall to get my swath/bunch grazing underway as all 450 acres are right by the highway. Normally I am swath grazing down some back gravel road and no one really gets to see it. This year I get to show it off! My neighbours already think that I’m crazy, so now […] Read more

Alberta rancher Cherie Copithorne-Barnes heads up this national project.

Beef Cattle, Features, Livestock

Going national with verified sustainable beef

By Debbie Furber March 23, 2016

As McDonald’s verified sustainable beef pilot heads to the finish line this April, the Canadian Roundtable for Sustainable Beef (CRSB) is stepping out with initiatives that have been in the works since it was formally established in early 2014. Anticipate hearing lots more from this group in the months ahead with the national verified sustainable […] Read more

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Rustlers take more than your cattle

URGENT: More temporary foreign workers needed

Absinth. An obnoxious weed for pastures

What perennial forage should I seed this year?

Spring is here: What to plant?

Seeing the ranch as a classroom

Storage and care of livestock vaccines

Richardson Ranch at the end of the world

Be prepared for calls if you winter graze

Going national with verified sustainable beef

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