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Direct-marketed grass-fed beef fuelled their expansion

By Debbie Furber September 12, 2014

Building a beef farm from scratch takes a lot of grit during the best of times. Starting up in hard times calls for that and for confidence in the future. Richard and Kristy-layne Carr have plenty of both. Not bound by tradition, they went into business with 30 cows on a quarter of land near […] Read more

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Has traceability fallen off the track?

By Debbie Furber September 10, 2014

“What happened to recommendations from the cattle summit in Saskatoon?” was the big question of the day at the Livestock Markets Association of Canada’s annual conference this summer, after two senior Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) officials explained the reasons behind a new epidemiological assessment of three movement reporting options that weren’t in the cattle […] Read more

You insure a price that you choose, explains Saskatchewan’s Jodie Griffin.

Features, Livestock

Producers give a thumbs-up to price insurance

By Debbie Furber September 5, 2014

The Western Livestock Price Insurance Program (WLPIP) jumped off to an excellent start in the first year of the new program. The uptake exceeded expectations in Saskatchewan, since the program didn’t get off the ground until April 8. Starting next year, the window for purchasing calf policies will be February 1 to May 29 in […] Read more

SSGA director Henry McCarthy (l), Marty Seymour, Canadian Western Agribition CEO with Trish Sahlstrom.

Beef Cattle, Features

We want to market more beef

A&W explains its marketing plan to producers

By Debbie Furber August 28, 2014

It was fun while it lasted — the new burger family served in tidy little foil bags; the frosted mug of root beer; the carhops delivering orders to the window. It was 1956 and A&W came onto the Canadian food-service scene with a flare that captured the fancy of the postwar generation. By 1972, when […] Read more

Gerry and Linda Bertholet  used twice-over grazing to  bring back their native stands.

Features, Forages, Pasture

Twice-over grazing leads to herd makeover

Better native grasses management improves biomass growth and breeding

By Debbie Furber August 27, 2014

When Gerry Bertholet signed up for a workshop on grazing native grasslands, he certainly wasn’t expecting to learn that he was doing everything wrong. According to the professor’s theories, they were overgrazing, their cows were too big and they were calving too early. It was a bit of a bitter pill to swallow. He, Linda […] Read more

Features, Livestock

Measuring agriculture’s shadow

Conservation practices needed to improve environmental performance of livestock sector

By Peg Strankman August 22, 2014

The value of biodiversity to provide ecosystem services like pollination to agriculture is more and more recognized,” says Dr. Shannon R. White, a University of Alberta ecologist working with the Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute (ABMI). “Measuring biodiversity is the base for valuing the ecosystem services responsible for purifying our air and water, and ensuring the […] Read more

"We want to see a program that works for ranchers and species at risk." – Sue Michalsky, Eastend, Sask.

Features, Livestock

Fee-for-service conservation

Ranchers engineered it now they are testing it out to see how it works in the real world

By Debbie Furber August 21, 2014

It’s been 80 years since respected American professor, ecologist and author, Aldo Leopold, recognized that conservation would ultimately boil down to rewarding private landowners who preserve the public interest. The southwestern Saskatchewan ranchers who formed the Ranchers Stewardship Alliance Inc. (RSAI) in 2010 believe that day has arrived. As to how it can be done, […] Read more

Features, History

Aunt Kate’s hallmarks in life were generosity and thoughtfulness

Pages of history from Canadian Cattlemen, June 1947

By Canadian Cattlemen Staff August 18, 2014

Aunt Kate By Mrs. A Jussila, Manyberries, Alta. About 14 miles southeast of Manyberries in the southeast corner of Alberta, lives a white-haired old lady, Mrs. Rebecca Cross, commonly known as Aunt Kate, and loved by all who know her. Her farm was for many years entirely surrounded by Higdon range and her unpretentious house […] Read more

The turkey's nest is a form of gravity flow for when you have no elevation to work with.

Features, Livestock

Get gravity to move water where you need it

By Steve Kenyon August 13, 2014

My favourite type of water system is a gravity flow. You know me, cheap and reliable is always my favourite. I will describe the setup and operation of two types of gravity-flow systems. We will first look at a true gravity flow from a dam or dugout and then we will look at how we […] Read more

Beef Cattle, Features

VG Meats debuts tenderness-tested beef in Canada

By Debbie Furber August 7, 2014

VG Meats is marketing Canada’s first tenderness-tested steaks. Kevin Van Groningen says they started with 100 per cent sensory-panel tasting for steaks sold to Jacob’s Steak House and expanded April 30 to provide 100 per cent tenderness sampling for steaks sold through Longos 27 retail locations in the Toronto area. He and his three brothers, […] Read more

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Direct-marketed grass-fed beef fuelled their expansion

Has traceability fallen off the track?

Producers give a thumbs-up to price insurance

We want to market more beef

Twice-over grazing leads to herd makeover

Measuring agriculture’s shadow

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Aunt Kate’s hallmarks in life were generosity and thoughtfulness

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VG Meats debuts tenderness-tested beef in Canada

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