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Dry-chilling beef carcasses (and two other things)

By Reynold Bergen May 6, 2016

The muscle tissues of healthy animals are essentially free of bacteria until carcasses are skinned. At that point, it is impossible to eliminate the transfer of bacteria from the hide and the environment to the meat. Many of those bacteria are harmless, but some can cause meat to spoil faster. Others, like verotoxigenic E. coli […] Read more

Beef Cattle, Research

Beef: A nutritious part of a sustainable diet

Research on the Record with Reynold Bergen

By Reynold Bergen April 5, 2016

In July 2014, a well-respected journal called Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences published a report that criticized meat production in general, and beef production in general, on the basis of their environmental footprints (“Land, irrigation, water, greenhouse gas, and reactive nitrogen burdens of meat, eggs, and dairy production in the United States,” PNAS […] Read more

Livestock, Research

Genetic editing and cattle

Research on the Record with Reynold Bergen

By Reynold Bergen March 1, 2016

The new year brings some new requirements under Canada’s Code of Practice for the Care and Handling of Beef Cattle. Effective January 1, 2016, Canadian beef producers are required to use pain control, in consultation with your veterinarian, to mitigate pain associated with dehorning calves after horn bud attachment (two to three months of age) […] Read more

Beef Cattle, Research

The environmental hoofprint of Canada’s beef industry

Research on the Record with Reynold Bergen

By Reynold Bergen January 20, 2016

Our industry is maligned for producing greenhouse gas. Practically every living organism produces greenhouse gas, even plants, but cattle produce more than other livestock because rumen bacteria produce methane as they digest feed. Additional greenhouse gas comes from manure (methane and nitrous oxide) and fossil fuel use (carbon dioxide). However, like the industry’s “water footprint,” […] Read more

Beef Cattle, Research

These little piggies ate a quarter-pounder a day

Research on the Record with Reynold Bergen

By Reynold Bergen December 11, 2015

Does eating beef from implanted cattle cause young girls to reach puberty sooner? Hormonal growth promotants have been used in beef cattle for a long time. The newest one (trenbolone acetate) has been around for nearly 35 years, while implants containing estradiol have been around for 60 years. Growth promotants improve growth rates and feed […] Read more

Beef Cattle, Research

Blame it on the rain, not the beef industry

Research on the Record with Reynold Bergen

By Reynold Bergen November 18, 2015

This summer has seen unusual rainfall patterns, low river levels and drought in large parts of Western Canada and the Western States. Some people blame water shortages on the beef industry and are ready to answer the question, “how much water does beef production use?” Unfortunately, these answers are often wrong, highly misleading and based […] Read more

Beef Cattle, Research

Conjugation, and what it means for antimicrobial resistance in livestock

By Reynold Bergen October 27, 2015

The federal government’s CIPARS program studies E. coli in healthy cattle entering packing plants and in retail ground beef. Its surveillance shows that resistance to antimicrobials of the highest importance in human health continues to be very rare in these samples, and multi-drug-resistant bacteria are even less common. The risk of consumers being exposed to […] Read more

Cow-Calf, Research

Improving transportation of calves

By Reynold Bergen September 21, 2015

In 2007, Alberta Beef Producers funded a transportation benchmarking study led by Dr. Karen Schwartzkopf-Genswein of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s Lethbridge Research Station. The research team surveyed over 9,000 loads and close to half a million cattle commercially transported to, from and within Alberta over an 18-month period. That study was completed in 2009 and […] Read more

Livestock, Research

Stretch winter feed supplies with care

By Reynold Bergen August 29, 2015

Winter feed will be a scarce and costly resource in much of Western Canada this year. Use it carefully, because the management decisions you make now will impact reproductive and economic performance for at least two years. Research conducted 25 years ago by P.L. Houghton and co-workers at Perdue University (J. An. Sci. 68:1438) demonstrated […] Read more

There is no evidence that ionophore use in livestock increases resistance to other antibiotics that are important in cattle or human medicine.

Beef Cattle, Research

Are ionophore antibiotics a risk for antimicrobial resistance?

By Reynold Bergen July 14, 2015

Last month’s column talked about Health Canada’s initiative to phase out growth promotion claims for medically important antibiotics by December 2016. This will impact three antibiotics (tetracycline, sulfamethazine and neomycin) that have growth promotion claims in beef cattle in Canada. It will not affect ionophore antibiotics like Rumensin, Bovatec, or Posistac. Ionophores are used widely […] Read more

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Dry-chilling beef carcasses (and two other things)

Beef: A nutritious part of a sustainable diet

Genetic editing and cattle

The environmental hoofprint of Canada’s beef industry

These little piggies ate a quarter-pounder a day

Blame it on the rain, not the beef industry

Conjugation, and what it means for antimicrobial resistance in livestock

Improving transportation of calves

Stretch winter feed supplies with care

Are ionophore antibiotics a risk for antimicrobial resistance?

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