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What you need to know about colostrum for beef calves

With cattle prices at historic highs, it’s important to get the 2015 calf crop off to a great start and minimize sickness and death. Most cattle producers know that colostrum is important for calves; this article will briefly review background information regarding colostrum, and provide some practical tips. Colostrum is a critical source of antibodies, […] Read more

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Some advice on when and how to resuscitate calves

By Roy Lewis Dvm February 4, 2015

Both dairy and beef producers have their own views on the best way to stimulate a weak calf that doesn’t want to breathe. Based on my experience of what works, and what doesn’t, the procedures worth doing do not require a lot of expense but saving one extra calf these days converts into significant dollars […] Read more

Cow-Calf, Features

What to do about cold stress in newborns

By Heather Smith Thomas January 29, 2015

Calves born in cold weather may suffer adverse effects if they are unable to get right up and nurse before they become chilled. Dr. Steve Hendrick of Coaldale Veterinarians, Coaldale, Alta., says anyone calving during winter has to deal with these issues and it can be a challenge. “Make sure you have lots of bedding […] Read more

Cow-Calf, Features

Scoring newborn calf vitality

By Debbie Furber January 28, 2015

Producers have all sorts of ways of assessing calf vigour, yet subjective evaluations can be inconsistent and some signs of distress or trauma from hard births may not be obvious. As part of her PhD research at the University of Guelph, Christine Murray developed a VIGOR scoring system to rate signs of distress in a […] Read more

Beef Cattle, Features

Rotational grazing for beginners

By Steve Kenyon January 23, 2015

I’ve recently had a few newer producers attend my seminars and schools who reminded me that there is still a large part of the farming population who consider rotational grazing to be a completely foreign notion. Not necessarily because they disagree with it, but just simply because they’ve rarely heard about it; and definitely have […] Read more

Beef Cattle, Features, Livestock

Why is she open?

Not all pregnancy losses are due to infection

By Heather Smith Thomas January 20, 2015

After a cow is bred, she should calve about 283 days later. But sometimes the pregnancy is terminated early and when you go hunting for a reason you’ll discover they are many causes for a lost pregnancy. Most of the time when there’s a poor pregnancy rate in a herd we suspect infectious causes like […] Read more

Beef Cattle, Features

A calving checklist

Get ready ahead of time

By Heather Smith Thomas January 15, 2015

Before calving, you want everything on hand that might be needed, and all facilities and equipment functional and ready for use. Don’t wait till the last minute to get machinery out of the calving barn or maternity pen if that’s where you parked it, or to try to find the new box of OB gloves […] Read more

Cow-Calf, Features

Have a restful calving season

The Ross family planned for one

By Debbie Furber January 13, 2015

Calving is the year-round focus on Chad and Crystal Ross’s 800-head cow-calf operation, but when calving season actually rolls around it’s the cows’ turn to do the work. The idea of letting cows calve on their own wouldn’t have entered their minds back in 1999 when they set up their place on the Ross L-7 […] Read more

Features

Is it really food?

By Steve Kenyon January 6, 2015

I get so frustrated when I go into a grocery store. Not because of the crazy grocery cart drivers who fail to yield, or drive on the wrong side of the aisle. It is because I spend most of my time standing over the cart reading ingredient lists. I am just trying to figure out […] Read more

SIAL's multi-country meat display in Paris suggests other beef-producing nations aren't set to roll over and let Canadian beef sweep the continent.

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The view from Europe on free trade with Canada

By Colin Ley January 2, 2015

Beef exporters will need to be patient before cashing in on new EU opportunities

The prospect of a major increase in Canadian beef exports into the European Union, following the recent ending of negotiations for the EU-Canada free trade agreement, hung over this year’s SIAL food fair in Paris as a significant trading change, although one that is very much lodged in the “business pending” tray. For seasoned Canadian beef exporters, such […] Read more

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What you need to know about colostrum for beef calves

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