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Beef Cattle, Features

Locking in purebred cattle traits

The Lafrentz family relied on planned matings and linebreeding to lock in their genetic package

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Denise and Vern Lafrentz started out on their own 20 years ago with a goal of raising commercial-style purebred Simmental and Simmental-Angus breeding stock to meet the needs of commercial cattlemen. Along the way, their foresight and commitment to their breeding plan has put their ranch, Wheatland Cattle Co. of Bienfait, Sask., in the limelight […] Read more
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Beef Cattle, Features

Heifers by the hundreds

Primrose Livestock has set up a heifer station in Saskatchewan

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Calving out 900 heifers is demanding work at the best of times. Factor in a nasty Saskatchewan winter without so much as a hint of a southern Alberta chinook to melt the mountains of snow in 2014, and it’s a remarkable feat for an operation in its first production cycle. Kyle Primrose, who hails from […] Read more
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Calving, Features

Necrotic laryngitis or calf diphtheria (barker calves)

Veterinarians use various treatments depending on what they've found is most effective

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I am sure most producers over the years have had calves develop a throat infection on a sporadic basis. These are the calves which have an extremely loud, inspiratory and expiratory sound which can be heard across the pen. They generally extended their neck to breathe and are in various forms of respiratory distress. The […] Read more
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Beef Cattle, Features

Mustering and drafting down under

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In July 2014, my fiancé Colin and I had the opportunity to work on Manali Limousin and Lim-Flex stud near Scone, New South Wales, Australia. Over the course of the month we fed cattle, built fence and welded gates, and spent numerous full days clipping and washing 56 two-year-old bulls that would be sold in […] Read more
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Calving, Features

Five steps to a successful calving season

Preparations in advance makes calving season both easier on you and your herd

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Calving season is an exciting time of year in most operations. It is exciting to see new calves hitting the ground, but it can also be exciting in more of a pending emergency sort of way. Most herds that have successful, low-drama calving seasons have several things in common, regardless of their calving season, most […] Read more
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Features

Avoid recycled paradigms when it comes to soil

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How do plants grow? This might seem like a pretty simple and harmless question, but Jean Baptista Van Helmont was curious about this so he did a pretty basic experiment to find out. The downside to his experiment was that he was arrested for it! Here is what he did in his own words: “I […] Read more
Dr. David Westaway
Beef Cattle, Features

Making headway on prion diseases

The search for answers about how BSE and other TSE prions work is still ongoing at the Alberta Prion Research Institute

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As the Alberta Prion Research Institute (APRI) enters its 10th year it seems as good a time as any to look back on what has been learned and what it sees ahead in the prevention of prion diseases. Set up by the province in 2005 in response to the disaster brought down on the cattle […] Read more
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Beef Cattle, Features

Reach out with a blog

These two B.C. women explain ranch life to the world through their blog

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A rancher’s vocabulary has some colourful words, and dare we say a few choice ones now and then, but “blog” isn’t usually one of them unless you’re talking with Erika Fossen and Erika Strande (Stewart). 2erikas, as they are now known around the blogging world, created “Life on a BC Cattle Ranch” and as of […] Read more

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