Cattleman’s Corner

When it comes to native grass pastures, does rotational grazing itself really benefit the grass? With any system, the problem is not the cow, but the manager

Most, if not all, range management professionals present rotational grazing as the definitive answer to virtually any range management problem they face. Briske and Brown (2011) noted this situation has persisted since the turn of the 20th century when American range ecologists and government agencies sought effective ways to improve the range health of rangelands in the […] Read more

It might not be an exact science, but the barnyard and boot study of manure is a simple reflection of the dairy diet being fed, how it is consumed, digested and finally pushed out onto the alley. When dairy cows defecate, we can get a pretty good idea as to their nutritional status by observing […] Read more

Alberta and Saskat-chewan still grow millions of acres of barley, but Manitoba broke a 30-year-old record in 2012 by planting 300,000 acres of harvested grain corn, which easily surpassed the previous high of 225,000 acres in 1981. On a Prairie-wide basis, barley is still the major feed grain crop with about 6.3-million acre harvested in 2012. However Manitoba planted […] Read more