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Heifers by the hundreds

Primrose Livestock has set up a heifer station in Saskatchewan

By Debbie Furber March 11, 2015

Calving out 900 heifers is demanding work at the best of times. Factor in a nasty Saskatchewan winter without so much as a hint of a southern Alberta chinook to melt the mountains of snow in 2014, and it’s a remarkable feat for an operation in its first production cycle. Kyle Primrose, who hails from […] Read more

Forages, Research

Canada’s beef industry supports forage research

Lack of private investment has left Canada’s beef producers reliant on public forage breeding and production research programs

By Reynold Bergen November 27, 2014

A competitive cow-calf sector requires an adequate supply of forage. Increasing forage quality and yield allows more cow-calf pairs to be maintained per acre of forage, or reduces the number of forage acres needed to maintain the same number of cow-calf pairs. Better yields come from the development of better varieties and production practices. Statistics […] Read more

cattle eating food minerals in a pasture

Beef Cattle, Forages, Livestock

Trace minerals of pasture forages in Saskatchewan

By Debbie Furber November 25, 2014

The Saskatchewan Forage Council (SFC) recently completed a broad evaluation of trace mineral content of pasture forages across Saskatchewan with a view to learning whether mineral programs for cattle on pasture should differ according to season, soil type and/or forage type. The findings indicate just that. “Season and forage species had significant effects on trace […] Read more

Cow-Calf, Features

Why do we tolerate aggressive cows?

By Brooke Aitken January 24, 2011

Cattle producers are surprisingly tolerant of aggressive mother cows at calving time and tend to leave them in the herd. They are much more likely to cull a cow that has mis-mothered or abandoned her calf. These were some of the key findings of a voluntary survey of 168 cattle producers who collectively own over […] Read more

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