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Straight talk on cattle steroids

By Debbie Furber December 9, 2014

Canada’s Beef Cattle Research Council (BCRC) has collected some interesting stats on the estrogen level in beef. A 75-gram serving of beef from cattle treated with hormone implants contains two nanograms (ng ~ one billionth of a gram) of estrogen. “A person would need to eat 3,000,000 hamburgers made with beef from implanted cattle to […] Read more

Forages, Research

Canada’s beef industry supports forage research

Lack of private investment has left Canada’s beef producers reliant on public forage breeding and production research programs

By Reynold Bergen November 27, 2014

A competitive cow-calf sector requires an adequate supply of forage. Increasing forage quality and yield allows more cow-calf pairs to be maintained per acre of forage, or reduces the number of forage acres needed to maintain the same number of cow-calf pairs. Better yields come from the development of better varieties and production practices. Statistics […] Read more

Beef Cattle, Livestock

Measuring changes in the quality of Canadian beef

By Beef Cattle Research Council May 14, 2014

Beef Cattle Research Council – We know that not every animal coming through the packer’s doors is ideal. Some have horns, extra mud, too much fat cover, bruises an even injection lesions which must the trimmed off. The more work needed to prepare a carcass for the cooler, the less profit it brings. Other losses […] Read more

Livestock

Study to portray state of cow-calf sector

By Rosie Templeton May 6, 2014

A team of researchers at the University of Saskatchewan and University of Calgary have received a $1.06-million grant from the Beef Cattle Research Council (BCRC) to conduct a five-year longitudinal study of the western Canadian cow-calf industry. The study aims to measure reproductive health, animal welfare, disease prevalence, antimicrobial use and other issues affecting Canada’s […] Read more

Livestock, Research

The high cost of shortchanging cows

By Reynold Bergen April 25, 2014

Last month’s column talked about how cold, snowy winters increase the energy needs of cows, especially when wintered on pasture, and how cows will use their body fat reserves to maintain themselves if the feed doesn’t provide enough energy. Reproductive performance will drop if thin cows don’t recover their body condition. A 2013 paper published […] Read more

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Straight talk on cattle steroids

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Measuring changes in the quality of Canadian beef

Study to portray state of cow-calf sector

The high cost of shortchanging cows

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