Cattleman’s Corner & Production Tips

Managing Fall Vaccinations

By Roy Lewis November 8, 2010

Producers are in the best position to control stress and maximize resistance to disease when timing of weaning is totally in their control. It has been proven time and time again, that in preimmunized (vaccinated) calves both morbidity (the per cent getting sick) and mortality (the per cent dying) is reduced. It is far better […] Read more

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Basic Plan For Windbreaks

By Rebecca Rose Taylor October 18, 2010

Cattle hate wind, and if you live on a farm like I do, where your cattle can be outside year round, this can create a problem. We reorganized our outside housing to reduce the amount of wind cattle are subjected to. Tools needed before you start the windbreak project, include a compressor, nail gun and […] Read more

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Make Silage When The Rain Stops

By Lee Hart October 18, 2010

Despite how wet it was across much of Western Canada, including parts of southern Alberta, Barry King says he didn’t get stuck once this year harvesting about 30,000 tons of grass and grain silage. The longtime custom operator of King Custom Farming, based out of High River, Alta., says for the first time ever they […] Read more

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Making The Most Of Sheep Genetics

October 18, 2010

Lamb meat is in high demand across Canada as well as in many parts of the world. In Alberta, an expansion campaign is underway to try and bridge the gap between supply and the growing demand. But one problem facing new and existing producers alike is the lack of availability of good genetic breeding stock. […] Read more

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Lick Tubs More Than Convenience

By Peter Vitti October 4, 2010

The cattle lick tub critics say that lick tubs are an expensive way to supplement cattle on pasture and there are more economical alternatives. They always seem to add that cattle producers are paying for convenience. Under bright and sunny skies, they might be right, but when you open a mineral feeder and it’s full […] Read more

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Few Profits Grow In Compost

By Lee Hart October 4, 2010

For a smaller feedlot operation, even based at the doorstep of a million people, it’s a tough job trying to make a dollar selling compost, says a southern Alberta beef producer. Todd McKinnon, who along with his family runs a 4,000 head feedlot, just north of Calgary, dabbled in the compost business for nearly 20 […] Read more

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Cattle Price Outlook Positive

By Lyndsey Smith October 4, 2010

Fed cattle prices have been quite volatile over the past month due to tighter market-ready supplies and improving demand. Fed cattle prices in the US southern plains jumped $4/cwt to $5/cwt in the last week of August reaching up to the psychological $100/cwt level before pulling back to the $98/cwt by mid September. At the […] Read more

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The “Round-Up” Season Underway

By Heather Smith Thomas October 4, 2010

AUGUST 27 Last week several cows came down through the fence from the range into “No Man’s Land” and Lynn was able to herd them back up to the gate where they belonged with his four-wheeler. Later that day he took several salt blocks into the forks of Withington Creek to encourage the cows to […] Read more

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Bulls, Machinery Present Challenges – for Sep. 6, 2010

By Heather Smith Thomas September 6, 2010

JULY 23 Andrea and I rode through the middle range this week to check water troughs. Lynn took our big John Deere tractor over to the Mauer place for Michael to use. The next day Andrea brought Dani and Sammy and we took them for a ride on the low range. Dani rode double on […] Read more

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July Has Been Hard On Vehicles – for Jul. 23, 2010

By Heather Smith Thomas July 23, 2010

JUNE 1 What a crazy spring we’ve had! It doesn’t seem like summer yet. We are still feeding hay. Lynn put a new starter on the feed truck and got it working again. The grass is slow growing in the cool weather, but is finally coming nice and thick—from all the rain. Michael and Carolyn […] Read more

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Alberta Crop Report: Harvest more than three-quarters finished

NFU says proposed plant breeders’ rights come at farmers’ expense

Cattleman’s Corner

Managing Fall Vaccinations

Basic Plan For Windbreaks

Make Silage When The Rain Stops

Making The Most Of Sheep Genetics

Lick Tubs More Than Convenience

Few Profits Grow In Compost

Cattle Price Outlook Positive

The “Round-Up” Season Underway

Bulls, Machinery Present Challenges – for Sep. 6, 2010

July Has Been Hard On Vehicles – for Jul. 23, 2010

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