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Beef Cattle, Nutrition

Focus on your yearlings this breeding season

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Calving is well underway across the country and many of you are turning your thoughts to activities associated with breeding, pasture turnout and spring seeding. Before your schedule gets too hectic, it is a good time to take stock of your nutrition program particularly as it relates to the breeding herd. In past issues, I […] Read more
beef carcass
Beef Cattle, News Roundup

Breeders will benefit from carcass data

News Roundup: From the April 2015 issue of Canadian Cattlemen

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The Beef Cattle Research Council (BCRC) believes the Beef InfoXchange System (BIXS) will become invaluable for cattle breeders, geneticists and beef researchers if significant numbers of producers can be encouraged to make use of the national database. And they aren’t the only ones looking forward to a more productive BIXS, according to a recent blog […] Read more
red angus bulls in a pen
Beef Cattle

Revising the bull pen

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Each year, the Dickinson Research Extension Center reviews the bulls from the previous year to cut back on what bulls need to be overwintered. Because the bulls are bought based on their ability to transmit the right genes into the cow herd, their expected progeny difference (EPD) values already have stood the evaluation tests of when they were purchased. […] Read more
May calving bull turnout is Aug. 1
Livestock

May calving bull turnout is Aug. 1

Expected start of the 2015 calving season set at May 10

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NDSU Extension Service – Given later calving, 99 per cent of the cows are calving within the first two breeding cycles (42 days) at the Dickinson Research Extension Center. The center switched to May calving in 2012. So far, following late-calving on grass in 2013 and 2014, the cows have rebred very well. Again this […] Read more
inserting an AI device into a heifer
Beef Cattle, Features

Deflating fixed-time AI myths

Conception rates in these three herds averaged 62, 65 and 76 per cent for an overall average of 67 per cent compared to an industry average of 50 per cent with a range of 40 to 60 per cent

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If the advantages of using fixed-time artificial insemination in your breeding program aren’t enough to convince you to give it a try, turn it around and ask yourself, “why not?” Three Saskatchewan producers who had never used fixed-time AI put that question to the test last spring as part of a fixed-time AI project sponsored […] Read more
Man wearing cowboy hat.
Features, Livestock

Genomics hits the ground

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The science of beef cattle genetics has sped up rapidly since the bovine genome was first mapped in 2009. Now it’s time to put that knowledge to work on farms and ranches with genomically enhanced expected progeny differences (EPDs). That was the main message presented to producers at a couple of recent gatherings in Regina […] Read more
Features, Livestock

Front load the heifers

It builds up breeding momentum

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Breeding replacement heifers to calve at least 30 days ahead of the cows isn’t just a good idea — it’s a must to give them a fighting chance at rebreeding in time with the main cow herd and establish reproductive momentum for the years to come. “Mother Nature and math leave very little room for […] Read more
Features

Quality in: Quality out

17 Ranch has turned to silver cattle in a big way

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Quality isn’t just part of Marty Armstrong’s business strategy, it’s everything. It’s what 17 Ranch has been all about since he established the backgrounding and grasser operation near his hometown of Eastend, Sask., in 2001. 17 Ranch flips as many at 4,500 head a year, adding approximately 500 pounds between buying in feeder steers starting […] Read more

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