If it is cost-competitive, wheat can be a good option in feedlot diets.

Examining feed wheat in feedlot diets

Research on the Record with Reynold Bergen

Over the past 20 years, Canada’s barley acreage has shrunk by nearly 155,000 acres annually, while both wheat (up 440,000 acres annually) and corn (up 300,000 acres annually) have grown. A smaller barley supply has prompted Western Canadian cattle feeders to look at alternate grain sources. Cattle feeders in Central Canada and the U.S. have […] Read more



Producers vaccinating calves before weaning.

M. bovis, repeat offender

Police describe the suspect as being in his twenties with shaggy brown hair, wearing a black hoodie, white sneakers, blue jeans and a green backpack. He is known to associate with members of a criminal gang. If that was me, I’d be quick to cut my hair short, dye it gray, grow a distracting moustache […] Read more