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The trick with winter water to keep your cattle drinking

By Steve Kenyon November 26, 2015

The leaves are turning a bit early this year and we are gearing up for another winter season here at Greener Pastures. The “drought of 2015 has taken its toll on producers in our area. My neighbour stated to me that he has not seen it this dry in 55 years. Hay is very expensive so […] Read more

cell designs for cross-fencing pasture cattle

Beef Cattle, Livestock

Six cell design strategies for pasture cattle

By Steve Kenyon June 11, 2015

For years, I have taken as many schools and seminars as I could, in a quest to improve my business. One thing that I have seen throughout my education is that pasture cell design is never explained well, if it is even discussed at all. The “why” on rotational grazing is always discussed, but the […] 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

Dr. John Campbell speaking at a veterinarian conference

Features, Livestock

Can twine kill a cow?

Unless the animal is cut open to determine the cause of death, many producers never know what happened

By Heather Smith Thomas October 17, 2014

Cattle can die from eating twine or net wrap left on big bales or put through the bale processor. And Dr. John Campbell, head at the Western College of Veterinary Medicine, in Saskatoon thinks it happens more often than we think. “I don’t have a lot of data, unfortunately, but I’m starting to believe this […] Read more

Many standing in hay-covered field with cows.

Features, Livestock

Bale grazing still too chancy

By Debbie Furber April 16, 2014

Glenn Cline fears he may be getting a little old-fashioned in his views for not jumping into bale grazing. His success in the cow-calf business says otherwise. He and his wife, Norma, established Bright Water Lake Ranch near Dundurn, Sask., in 1972, after a job with the nearby community pasture brought him to the area […] Read more

Features

Bale grazing

More than one way to skin a cat

By Steve Kenyon February 28, 2014

I started bale grazing many years ago more out of necessity than anything else. I had to feed my cattle but I worked long hours, six days a week. There was not a lot of time to be feeding cattle and I dislike feeding in the dark. Over the years I have adapted and experimented […] Read more

"Bale grazing with sisal twine seemed to make so much sense," Bill Redrupp says.

Features

Bale grazing on the Niagara Escarpment

By Debbie Furber January 20, 2014

Intrigued with what he had been reading about practices to extend the grazing season out west, Bill Redrupp was keen to give them a try on his mixed farm located on the foothills of the Niagara Escarpment near the former shipbuilding community of Collingwood, Ont., on Georgian Bay. About three years ago, he called Canadian […] Read more

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The trick with winter water to keep your cattle drinking

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Can twine kill a cow?

Bale grazing still too chancy

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Bale grazing on the Niagara Escarpment

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