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Shorter tubs protected by an electric fence wire give calves a chance to drink and learn about water.
Cattleman’s Corner, Cow-Calf

Creating calf creep water tubs

Calves get their own water source while their trough is out of order

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This spring we had to find a way to supply water to our baby calves. The pastures where we have our cow-calf pairs in the spring and early summer are fenced away from the creek, to avoid the risk of having a young calf swept away by high water. When we first moved onto this […] Read more
Gregory fixes a broken wire while the horses watch.
Cattleman’s Corner, Columns, Cow-Calf

A rainy May slows down seeding

Eppich News: The rhythm of the ranch rises with cattle to move, foals born and visitors

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On April 29 was Joseph’s seventh birthday party. The day before, we had a surprise for him: we loaded up the family, picked up Gregory’s sister, Theresa, and went to the rodeo in North Battleford. It was Joseph’s first rodeo and while his brothers weren’t as interested, he had a lot of fun. The beginning […] Read more
Pretreated calves usually need a booster for mycoplasma once they arrive at a feedlot.
Beef Cattle, Cattleman’s Corner, Columns

Lower stress, lower mycoplasma

Animal Health: The secondary respiratory and joint disease can be limited with prevention

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Feedlot owners and backgrounders across this country always have one question for me: “Is there anything new out there to combat mycoplasma?” While there are a couple of vaccines licensed for cattle, they do require multiple shots. Vaccines help, but focusing on decreasing stress and other diseases can limit mycoplasma infection. Mycoplasma comes in many […] Read more
cattle with mineral feeder
Beef Cattle, Cattleman’s Corner, Columns

How to manage beef cow summer mineral intake

Better Bunks and Pastures: Most solutions are found with common sense and changing practices

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A long time ago, I helped a producer feed loose mineral to his herd of 60 beef cows. It was at the start of summer and during their breeding season. We’d just rip open a couple of bags and pour the mineral into an old wooden crate near a full dugout of drinking water. Often, […] Read more
File photo of cattle on feed near Champion, Alta., about 75 km north of Lethbridge. (James_Gabbert/iStock/Getty Images)
Beef Cattle, Cattleman’s Corner, Markets

Tighter fed cattle supplies support feeder market

U.S. beef producers are not yet holding back enough heifers for expansion

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During the first week of June, Alberta packers were buying fed cattle on a live basis at $261 per hundredweight, f.o.b, feedlot in southern Alberta, up $4/cwt from a month earlier. Market-ready supplies of fed cattle were sharply above year-ago levels earlier in winter, but the backlog has slowly been alleviated through the spring period. […] Read more
korea cattle
Beef Cattle, Cattleman’s Corner, Columns

Korean beef: similar feed, but much more marbling

Better Bunks and Pastures: Hanwoo cattle are finished to higher weights than most Canadian cattle, with similar daily gains

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I am going to take a month off from my regular routine. Rather than discuss the latest in Canadian beef nutrition, I am going to examine a new beef experience, almost 10,000 km west of Winnipeg, at the outskirts of Naju City in South Korea. In short order, my girlfriend and I took a two-week […] Read more
Shared pastures can be a biosecurity hazard as the mixed herds can bring disease back to their home herds.
Cattleman’s Corner, Livestock

For your cattle, the best biosecurity offence is defence

15 plays to keep your beef herd safe

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The recent passing of highly pathogenic avian influenza A into bovines in the United States has people talking about the value of biosecurity in beef cattle herds. As humankind evolved from a nomadic hunter-gatherer society into agricultural-based settlement populations, there is a reason domesticated bovine played a major role as a farmed species. Cattle are […] Read more
The RFID tag should be put ideally a quarter of the way out from the head and in the middle.
Cattleman’s Corner

More cattle tags being retained

Animal Health: Tag makers continue to improve reliability of tags against harsh conditions

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The national livestock identification system has been around for a good while now, close to 25 years. Through the system’s growing pains, lots of lessons have been learned and the system is being fine-tuned. Producers are deriving more and more benefit from using farm management systems linked to readers linked to scales, all based on […] Read more
The beef cattle industry is bracing for a level of heifer retention this summer and fall that's expected to lower the feeder cattle supply.
Cattleman’s Corner, Markets

Lower feedlot placements support cattle market

Cow-calf producers should think about selling calves in late summer versus fall

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During the last week of April, Alberta packers were buying fed cattle on a live basis in the range of $256-$258 per hundredweight delivered, up $18/cwt from three weeks earlier. Alberta fed cattle basis levels have strengthened as market-ready supplies tighten. In Kansas and Texas, live sales, f.o.b. feedlot, were reported at US$182/cwt, down US$3/cwt […] Read more

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