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Mike and 
Daicya Munton
Beef Cattle, Features

Benchmark brings feed efficiency home

Seedstock: Munton family aims to raise the bar on bringing up bulls

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Benchmark Angus near Warner, Alta., has worked diligently to earn its reputation as “your carcass source.” Not content to rest on Benchmark’s laurels of consistently raising top-ranking marbling and muscling bulls in the Canadian Angus Association’s registry, the Munton family is aiming to up the bar by doing it more efficiently. A year ago this […] Read more
Some thoughts on backgrounding
Beef Cattle, Features, Livestock

Some thoughts on backgrounding

Research scientist says it's all about cost-effectiveness

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With feeder markets tumbling this fall, many people were thinking about holding onto their calves a bit longer in hopes of better prices ahead. Bart Lardner, research scientist at the Western Beef Development Centre and an adjunct professor at the University of Sask­atchewan, says there are several programs that can be used to grow weaned […] Read more
The benefits of palpating heifers
Cow-Calf, Features, Livestock

The benefits of palpating heifers

There are both economic and health benefits for your cattle operation

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Many commercial or purebred producers and auction markets are realizing the benefits of palpating heifers pre-breeding. This can also be done at pregnancy checking and involve a more thorough exam than simply a determination of whether they are pregnant or not. I will try and high­light some of these and explain how this may economically […] Read more
(Photo courtesy Canada Beef Inc.)
Beef Cattle, Livestock, Markets

Klassen: Feeder cattle market experiences mixed tone

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Western Canadian feeder cattle markets experienced a diverse tone across the Prairies, with notable buying interest surfacing on yearlings. Compared to seven days earlier, prices for yearlings in southern Alberta were $5-$7 higher on average, as feedlots focused on purchasing local cattle. In southern Alberta, larger-frame lower-flesh black steers weighing 900 lbs. were quoted at […] Read more
News, News Roundup

Cattlemen’s foundation expands its reach

Associations: News Roundup from the September 2016 issue of Canadian Cattlemen

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Beef producers now have a way to donate directly to the construction of new beef research centres in Saskatchewan and Ontario through the Canadian Cattlemen’s Foundation. The registered charity was established last year as the old Legacy Fund was drying up to give producers an opportunity to help maintain the work of the Cattlemen’s Young […] Read more
Preconditioning has paid off 
for Oliver Schunicht every year because the value of the weight gain on the calves has always been greater than his costs.
Cow-Calf, Features, Livestock

Pounds pay for preconditioning calves

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Tradition is sometimes blamed for the apparent lack of interest in preconditioning calves up to now. For Oliver Schunicht, however, tradition is the very reason he continues to precondition calves on his farm near Strathmore, Alta. “I’ve always preconditioned because I’m gathering 500 calves from seven or eight pastures and I can’t pull them off […] Read more
cattle herd and horse rider
Cow-Calf, Markets

Beef industry appears to be stalled

Charlie Gracey's take on cattle markets and the cow-calf industry

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There are few surprises and some disappointments at the end of Q2. Total slaughter cattle numbers are up 5.1 per cent and tonnage is up approximately nine per cent over the same period in 2015. The larger increase in tonnage is due entirely to increased carcass weights. Further, the increase in the percentage of AAA[...]
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