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What perennial forage should I seed this year?

By Duane McCartney April 25, 2016

Cattle grazers all across Canada have a wide choice of perennial forage species that they can seed this year. But how do producers pick a species and variety to grow in their respective areas? The question of seeding in mixtures has always been a puzzle. In the 1960s and early 1970s, seed mixtures contained 17 […] Read more

Livestock, Pasture

Learning to grow more grass in Saskatchewan

By Heather Smith Thomas April 20, 2016

Art McElroy has been farming in southern Saskatchewan, about 50 miles east of Alberta, since 1996. He started seeding some of the place back to grass in 1998. In 1999 he and his oldest son took the Ranching for Profit class as a home study course and started doing some rotational grazing. In 2005 he […] Read more

Forages, Livestock

Forage breeding faces funding challenges

Government has cut back, private companies are not keen on crops that don’t need to be reseeded every year, and you can’t check off sales to farmers’ own livestock

By Ron Friesen April 12, 2016

Forages are Canada’s biggest crop but you wouldn’t know it because of the few resources that go into breeding them. You’d think that, given its size, forage would be a giant in the world of plant breeding. Unfortunately, it’s more of a midget. Canada has only four major publicly funded programs for breeding tame forages, […] Read more

Crops, Forages, Markets

Roundup Ready alfalfa primed for launch in East

By Canadian Cattlemen Staff March 30, 2016

The company with Roundup Ready alfalfa on its launchpad plans a limited rollout of commercial seed into Canada’s six eastern provinces this spring. In a move likely to face opposition from several farm groups across the country, Forage Genetics International (FGI) on Tuesday announced plans for a limited release of commercial HarvXtra alfalfa “in time for […] Read more

Some second growth for October grazing on Kevin Stebeleski’s pasture.

Beef Cattle, Forages

Multi-species silage is like free insurance

By Debbie Furber December 8, 2015

As spring turned to summer without giving up much rain, Kevin Stebeleski really started to wonder about his decision to give multi-species silage a try for the first time. Those worries turned moot as July rains and warm weather transformed the 100-acre field into a smorgasbord of forages that landed 8.5 tons to the acre […] Read more

"Certain groups of bacteria seem to become more abundant in the rumen of bloated cattle." Elnaz Azad, researcher at the University o Manitoba.

Beef Cattle, Features

Rumen microbes and bloat in cattle

Key to the prevention of bloat is understanding the role the bacteria community plays

By Elnaz Azad November 24, 2015

Bloat is marked by impairment in the ability of cattle to expel gas from the rumen, a process known as eructation. Gases including carbon dioxide and methane are produced during normal fermentation and their accumulation in the rumen causes severe distention of the first two compartments of a cow’s stomach, compressing the lungs and heart […] Read more

“We’ve looked at some alternatives here and found we could feed the grasser cattle protein supplement on alternate days and we didn’t have to take it to them every day. We were able to reduce labour costs by 20 per cent.” Bart Lardner, WBDC

Cow-Calf, Features, Livestock

Satisfy the protein needs of pregnant cows

By Heather Smith Thomas November 5, 2015

Cows require different nutritional levels at different stages of gestation. Nutrient requirements in early gestation are not much different from maintenance requirements, but as the fetus grows larger the cow’s nutrient needs increase. And if a cow is lactating, she needs a much higher level of protein and energy than when she is pregnant. Protein […] Read more

Beef Cattle, Features, Forages

Don’t waste your expensive feed

By Duane McCartney November 3, 2015

This will be a difficult winter for drought-stricken cow-calf producers. It will be essential to make the best use of available feed stocks and look at ways of reducing wastage of this valuable resource. Cows can be very wasteful creatures especially if forages are fed free choice be it dried hay or bale grazing. In […] Read more

Livestock, Vet advice

Drought management for cattle producers

By Dr. Ron Clarke October 9, 2015

We moved through some of the wettest years in history to a drought situation for many cattle producers. For those caught in the drought cycle, care of the cow herd, costs, feed inventory and preservation of forage supplies were front and centre. For some, relief came with recent rains — too late for hay, but […] Read more

Livestock

Measuring feed quality in the field

A new system allows for bale-by-bale feed value testing

By Michael Thomas August 12, 2015

In challenging economic times it is more important than ever to know the value of the alfalfa forage you are feeding your dairy or beef cattle. Whether you are blending alfalfa in a ration to maximize lactation, fertility and calf growth, or utilizing lesser-quality hay for dry cattle or replacements, you want to know that […] Read more

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What perennial forage should I seed this year?

Learning to grow more grass in Saskatchewan

Forage breeding faces funding challenges

Roundup Ready alfalfa primed for launch in East

Multi-species silage is like free insurance

Rumen microbes and bloat in cattle

Satisfy the protein needs of pregnant cows

Don’t waste your expensive feed

Drought management for cattle producers

Measuring feed quality in the field

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