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Not that I am a wise old historian, but I really can’t think of a time in recent history anyway, where the beef industry, the agriculture industry, or the whole economy in general has been in such a state of turmoil. Who and what is going to survive through 2009? It is too easy to […] Read more

Here are some facts about the Canadian beef industry, you probably didn’t know – and these come via Neil French, a beef specialist and instructor at Olds College. Largest cattle producers Assuming on any given day there are a little over a billion head on cattle on the planet, India has the largest cattle herd […] Read more

Back grounding calves over winter on swath grazing systems, as opposed to a feed yard can reduce costs by 30 to 50 percent, says a senior researcher with the Western Beef Development Centre (WBDC). Bart Lardner, who conducted research at the WBDC’s Termuende Research Farm, near Lanigan, Sask., told producers attending the Western Canadian Grazing […] Read more

On this, my first ever journey into the World of Blog, I felt it fitting to rant about a topic that surfaces every so often and that is the misguided intentions of animal welfare people. In today’s paper was a short article about plans by Madeleine Pickens, wife of U.S. billionaire T. Boone Pickens to […] Read more