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Faced with low grain prices for crops they were growing on rented land and interest rates soaring above 20 per cent in the early 1980s, the de Boer brothers of Monarch, Alta., took what they saw as a calculated risk and established a 2,400-head custom feedlot. Thinking back on their entry into the cattle feeding […] Read more

Wayne Heinrichs doesn t aspire to any one particular beef production philosophy, but pulls together information from many schools of thought to customize a winter- feeding system for his beef operation near Brandon, Man. His goal as the system evolves is to find the most economical way to winter his herd without sacrificing performance and […] Read more

If Kevin Woods had a million dollars in the bank, he d probably try to leave it there for one basic reason it would make it easier to get more money to make more money farming. I have always loved farming. That s why I m here, but it all boils down to the money, […] Read more

Schooten and Sons Custom Feedyard has been pioneering the use of a natural feed supplement called Bio-Mos that has significantly reduced the sickness and mortality rates at their feedlots near Picture Butte and Diamond City in southern Alberta. The Schootens participated in Alltech s first feedlot performance trial on Bio-Mos in Canada in the fall […] Read more

The research results are due out next spring Canada s biodiesel industry is in its infancy relative to global biofuel production, but it may be hastened along by the federal two per cent mandate on renewable content in diesel fuel and heating oil passed on July 1 of this year with compliance expected by December […] Read more

Speaking at a special conference this past summer in Lethbridge, Dr. Darryl Gibb, innovation and business development specialist with Viterra at Lethbridge, and Dr. Barry Robinson, nutritionist and owner of Great Northern Livestock Consulting at Westlock, Alta., took a look at the practical and economic implications of feeding dried distillers grains with solubles (DDGS) to […] Read more

In contrast to results from initial studies in the United States suggesting that feeding distillers grain to cattle increases fecal shedding ofEscherichia coli 0157: H7(E. coli 0157)bacteria, a comprehensive project at Lethbridge Research Centre is showing that there is no direct link between the two. University of Lethbridge PhD candidate and research affiliate Jennyka Hallewell […] Read more