Cattleman’s Corner & Production Tips

Better bunks and pastures: Get ready for a new pasture season

By Peter Vitti May 23, 2013

Beef cows graze pasture for nutrients needed to maintain good body condition, nurse a hungry calf and get ready for the upcoming breeding season. The importance of meeting this higher plane of nutrition after calving cannot be understated, because its failure may lead to poor calf weaning weights and a poor future calving season. Therefore, […] Read more

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Market Update: Long winter weighs on consumers and markets

By Jerry Klassen May 23, 2013

Fed and feeder cattle prices in Western Canada have traded in a sideways range over the past month. Negative feeding margins and the high cost of feed grains has limited the upside on feeder cattle while stagnant wholesale beef prices and lower-than-expected consumer demand has tempered any strength in the fed market. The prolonged winter […] Read more

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SSGA has helped ranchers, and industry

By Lisa Guenther May 23, 2013

Brian Weedon, who has been ranching near Swift Current, Sask. for nearly 40 years, credits the Saskatchewan Stock Growers Association (SSGA) with helping him learn the ropes. “By rubbing shoulders with some of the best ranching families and individuals in the province, to me it was like going to university and not having to pay […] Read more

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Rancher’s Diary: Calves are coming, and horses need more training

By Heather Smith Thomas May 23, 2013

MARCH 24 Last Friday Andrea drove to Pocatello to take Sam to the regional dance competition. Their group won first place and will go to the national competition in Utah in May. On Saturday Andrea and I finally had a chance to lead the two fillies again, and took them about a mile on the […] Read more

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Tips to prevent navel infection, without dipping

By Peter Vitti April 15, 2013

Navel infection (omphalitis) can often become a chronic debilitating problem in newborn calves. Once infected, treatment is often long term and can be unrewarding. The initial cause is bacteria invading the umbilical cord resulting in infection right at the umbilical stump. The two arteries, two veins and urachus (duct leading from the fetal bladder) all can […] Read more

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Salt is key to avoiding grass tetany

By Heather Smith Thomas April 15, 2013

The cause of grass tetany (grass staggers, milk tetany, lactation tetany, winter tetany, wheat pasture poisoning, crested wheatgrass poisoning, barley poisoning) has been poorly understood, yet annual death losses cost beef producers millions of dollars. It affects mature cattle grazing lush forage, after weather changes like freezing early spring pastures or sudden growth after rainfall […] Read more

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Lynn is slowly getting back in the saddle

By Heather Smith Thomas April 15, 2013

FEBRUARY 23 Last Saturday Rick and Sam came down on the four-wheeler to help me feed the cows. Sam enjoyed riding around in the feed truck. Lynn was doing better that morning, so the heart doctor in Missoula released him from the hospital mid-day, and Andrea drove him home. He was very tired and went […] Read more

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Shotgun approach to beef production missing the target

By Sean McGrath April 15, 2013

I was at Cattlemen’s Corral in Lloydminster a while ago and caught a good presentation from Anne Dunford, a long-time beef market specialist for many years with Canfax and now with Gateway Livestock. She had a very interesting series of slides with global beef cattle numbers, trends and markets. As Canadians we pride ourselves on […] Read more

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We spare no expense to bring you ‘the news’

By Lee Hart March 21, 2013

One of my assignments this winter was to find a beef animal in Arizona. I know it sounds crazy since there are probably a couple of hundred head right here in Western Canada. But, NO, the editor and maybe even the editorial director and publisher insisted that I find and photograph a beef animal in […] Read more

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Trit/oats seeding grazed three times

By Sean McGrath March 20, 2013

Trit/oats seeding grazed three times Summer pasture monitoring One of the areas we have been working on is monitoring our pastures/riparian zones and grazing progress. Because we operate a grazing operation we record animal unit grazing days as our measure of production (number of days per acre we graze a 1,000-pound animal equivalent). Because most […] Read more

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Better bunks and pastures: Get ready for a new pasture season

Market Update: Long winter weighs on consumers and markets

SSGA has helped ranchers, and industry

Rancher’s Diary: Calves are coming, and horses need more training

Tips to prevent navel infection, without dipping

Salt is key to avoiding grass tetany

Lynn is slowly getting back in the saddle

Shotgun approach to beef production missing the target

We spare no expense to bring you ‘the news’

Trit/oats seeding grazed three times

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