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Calving fits with year-round grazing at Chinook Ranch
Beef Cattle, Features, Livestock

Calving fits with year-round grazing at Chinook Ranch

Longview, Alta. ranch in operation since 1950

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Stephen Hughes raises beef cattle near Longview, in southwestern Alberta. “Our family has been here since the late 1940s. My grandfather came from England in 1928 and had this ranch put together by 1950. My dad, Jim, is still involved in the day-to-day management of the ranch. I am third generation, and when I got […] Read more
Canadian dealer Eric Fazakas, EF Ag Services.
Cow-Calf, News, News Roundup

TEXT from Moocall: Cow 37 is calving

Equipment: News Roundup from the January 2017 issue of Canadian Cattlemen

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The text message woke Vern Luther at Craik, Sask., in the wee hours. Jason Evashenko, about a half-hour north near Kenaston, received the exact same text a month later while out for a family supper. As inconvenient as the timing was, neither minded the interruption because it meant a new calf on the way. The […] Read more
The Capitol Building in Washington, DC.
CCA reports

CCA Report: Preparing for change

From the January 2017 issue of Canadian Cattlemen

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As the January 20 inauguration of president-elect Donald Trump approaches, the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association (CCA) is also preparing for the transition. We have worked hard over the years to build strong relationships with American industry and government officials and we will continue to do so. One of the early questions is obviously related to the […] Read more
History: Is production capacity of Canada’s cattle industry being impaired?
History, Our History

History: Is production capacity of Canada’s cattle industry being impaired?

Reprinted from the June 1950 issue of Canadian Cattlemen

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Is production capacity of Canada’s cattle industry being impaired? By Lorne Stout, Calgary, Alta. ‘Ever since the tale of the boy who cried “Wolf” back in the mythical past, and possibly beyond, there has never been a shortage of those ever ready to cry “Havoc” on the slightest provocation. This most recent havoc cry has […] Read more
cattle on a pasture with mountains
Livestock, Vet advice

Bovine TB: An old disease, a modern enigma

Vet Advice with Dr. Ron Clarke

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The TB investigation in southeastern Alberta continues to unfold. The riddle of where it came from and finding ways to deal with the relative “stranger at our door” is unnerving. When the views of an anxious livestock industry, a federal regulatory agency, and a probing public collide, the task of disease control approaches unmanageable. Add […] Read more
Barley variety and silage quality
Barley, Beef Cattle, Research

Barley variety and silage quality

Research on the Record with Reynold Bergen

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Barley silage is the main roughage fed in western Canadian feedlots, but few barley breeders try to improve its feed quality. Most breeders focus on improved grain yields, malting characteristics and better disease and lodging resistance, and pay little attention to feed quality traits like protein, starch, or neutral detergent fibre (NDF) content and digestibility […] Read more
Grand Champion Bull honours went to SOS CHUCKWAGON 54C, exhibited by Springside Farms, Airdrie, Alta.
Livestock, News, Purely Purebred

Grand Champion Bull and Female honours awarded

Purely Purebred with Mike Millar: News about you from the December 2016 issue of Canadian Cattlemen

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The 2016 National Charolais Show was a resounding success at the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair in Toronto, Ont. The Ontario Charolais Association (OCA) hosted 46 breeders that exhibited 105+ animals. Cattle were sorted November 4 by Kasey Phillips, Waskatenau, Alta., and sparks flew at the National Charolais Sale that averaged $9,400. Compliments to the OCA […] Read more
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
Quarantined ranches don’t have the facilities to feed the hundreds of calves they expected to sell in the fall, so Alberta Beef Producers is trying to get permission to use — and then find — feedlots willing to take them.
Beef Cattle, Livestock, News

Compensation promised for ranches under TB quarantine

Ottawa promises financial help while Alberta Beef Producers trying to arrange for feedlots to take in calves

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Beleaguered ranchers with quarantined herds are getting some relief as the Canadian Food Inspection Agency has approved a beef industry plan to allow calves to be sent to feedlots. “We’re working with the CFIA on the conditions and requirements,” said Rich Smith, executive director of Alberta Beef Producers. “Obviously, it would be hard to get […] Read more
Feeding and pen environment
Beef Cattle, Features, Livestock

Feeding and pen environment

Canadian feedlot animal care assessment — Part 5

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The starting point for assessing a feedlot’s nutrition and feeding program is documentation about the feeding program along with feed records, either on a computer or hard copy. Ten points are awarded for working with a nutritionist and/or veterinarian to ensure rations meet requirements for all classes of cattle, along with two points for each […] Read more

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