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Nutrition

Something More to Think About!

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Last month we looked at the relationship between forage quality and plant maturity. Our focus was on how fibre levels increase with advancing plant maturity and the resulting negative influence on nutritive value of the forage. A second factor that has a negative impact on forage quality is the reduction in crude protein content that […] Read more
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Nutrition

Something to think about!

At what stage should you cut your hay for optimum forage quality?

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Feed, particular the cost of putting up preserved forage is one of the largest factors influencing the cost of maintaining the cow herd. In cost-of-production studies carried out by the Western Beef Development Centre, winter feed costs over a five-year period averaged 30 per cent of total cow costs and in some cases reached 50 […] Read more
Cattle in a winter pasture
Livestock, Research

The high cost of shortchanging cows

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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
Man in field with cattle.
Features, Livestock

Grazing Prior style

Tim Prior knows intensive grazing pays in Ontario

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Prior has been using intensive grazing on his 90-acre farm, Grazing Meadows in Brussels, Ont., for over 15 years now. His cattle rotationally graze on 30 meadows, located along the laneway, using a leader-follower system. Stock is shifted daily, giving each paddock up to 30 days of rest and recovery. Each paddock is about 1.5 […] Read more
Many standing in hay-covered field with cows.
Features, Livestock

Bale grazing still too chancy

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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
Cows eating grass in a field.
Features, Livestock

Swift Current researchers take the long view

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The central grasslands of the northern great plains of Western Canada is a major forage growing area and makes up a significant portion of the landscape of the Prairies. This semiarid region extends from southwestern Manitoba to southwestern Alberta; north to just below Saskatoon and south to the United States border. Swift Current Ag Canada […] Read more
Livestock, Nutrition

A midterm checkup for your feeding program

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For cattle feeders this is a great time of the year. Cattle are well into their feeding program, health issues are in the rear-view mirror and your nutrition program is running flawlessly. If you are wondering what world I live in, you are right. Life is never this simple. However, with current profitability in the […] Read more
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Features

It takes a neighbourhood to grow beef

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As a former high school athletic director, Myron Pearman knows how far enthusiasm and motivation can take a person. He knows, too, that there have to be a few wins along the way to keep spirits riding high. Wins aren’t always measured by numbers on a scoreboard or trophies in a showcase; they can be […] Read more

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