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Farmer walking toward combine.
Beef Cattle, Features

Tim Lehrbass traded his combine for cattle

Ontario grower decides to graze cattle on his cash crop

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Tim Lehrbass was just like any other Ontario farm kid, taking farm cues from his family and doing things the way things needed to be done and, in many ways, the way things had always been done. “I started out cash cropping,” he told a crowd at the Canadian Forage and Grassland Association annual conference […] Read more
round hay bales in field
Forages, Livestock

Forage testing more complicated, but rations more accurate

Forage testing has evolved significantly in the past three to five years, with more precise tools for livestock ration development

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Forage quality evaluation has moved from rule of thumb to rule of rumen. Mark Bowman, a ruminant nutritionist with Grand Valley Fortifiers in Cambridge, Ont., told the annual meeting of the Canadian Forage and Grassland Association in Guelph last November that forage testing has evolved significantly in the past three to five years, with more […] Read more
Tom Kilcer recommends triticale as a cover crop with high feed value, and says to manage it as a feed crop, not just a cover, using seed treatment and good seed.
Crops, Forages

Don’t call it ‘cover,’ call it ‘feed’

How sacrificing some silage yield can gain another six to 10 tons of forage per acre

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Tom Kilcer says farmers are missing an opportunity to create greater value from cover crops by using them in a carefully planned winter forage system. He’s promoting a system that gives up some yield in corn silage planted after the winter forage in order to gain overall total yield over a whole growing season.  Kilcer, […] Read more
Greg Penner of the University of Saskatchewan, congratulates Dr. David Christensen (right) on winning the 2017 SFC Forage Industry Innovation Award.
Features, Forages

Forages were the foundation for researcher’s celebrated career

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In a career that already spans more than five decades, Dr. David Christensen, of the University of Saskatchewan, has been a major contributor to the research in support of Canadian forage crops. His substantial contributions on a regional, national and international level were recently recognized by the Saskatchewan Forage Council (SFC) when he was presented […] Read more
cows eating pellets- Glen Nicoll
Livestock, News, News Roundup

Albertans urged to test winter feeds

Feed: News Roundup from the October 23, 2017 issue of Canadian Cattlemen

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Albertans are being advised to test their winter forage supplies this fall. “Livestock feed supplies are going to be tight in some areas of Alberta, while in other areas, quality may be an issue,” says Andrea Hanson, beef extension specialist with Alberta Agriculture and Forestry. Testing identifies the nutrients available so the ration can be […] Read more
Silage cut too dry can cause overheating resulting in brown or burnt-looking patches.
Beef Cattle, Nutrition

The silage pit has no secrets

Nutrition with John McKinnon

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Last month I wrote about the importance of variety when it comes to seeding barley for silage. When writing that article, I got thinking about the principles of making good-quality silage, particularly in relation to feed quality. What really brought this connection home to me however, was my experiences this past winter where I had […] Read more
Why variety matters when growing barley for silage
Barley, Crops, Nutrition

Why variety matters when growing barley for silage

Nutrition with John McKinnon

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When growing silage, particularly barley silage, most producers select varieties with proven agronomic traits such as yield, disease and lodging resistance. In contrast, relatively little information is available on the nutritional value of the numerous barley varieties that are available for seeding. Recently a joint research project was run at the University of Saskatchewan and […] 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
Producers can feed test standing crops by grabbing 20 to 25 samples, says Bart Lardner.
Features, Forages, Livestock

Cut cereal crops later, feed more cows

Support for cutting barley, oat crops at the hard-dough stage grows

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The recommendation to cut barley crops at the early-dough stage and oat crops at the late-milk stage for silage has by default been the standing recommendation for stage of maturity to cut these cereals for greenfeed and swath grazing as well. Findings by a University of Saskatchewan team of researchers with the animal science and […] Read more

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