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Cyle and Erika Stewart

Outstanding Young Farmers 2024: Efficiency, sustainability and resilience are priorities when ranching during a long dry spell

By Lee Hart November 8, 2024

Cyle and Erika Stewart say developing an efficient beef herd and managing pastures to optimize use of available forage during consecutive years of drought conditions has been the priority for their family-run ranching operation in southern Saskatchewan. The Stewarts, who own and operate Pine Ranch along with Erika’s parents Bill and Terry Strande, say they’ve […] Read more

Beef Cattle, Cattleman’s Corner, Livestock

These aren’t your daddy’s cow herds

No more kick ’em out and forget ’em for progressive producers

By Bruce Derksen November 8, 2018

Long before the time when the grass comes in thick and green and the summer winds start to blow, progressive cattlemen begin to prepare their cow-calf herds for the grazing and breeding seasons ahead. The days of rounding up the herd just before you send them to pasture, slapping on a few ear tags, chasing […] Read more

Cattleman’s Corner, Cow-Calf, Livestock

Flight zones can teach some lessons

Cattle behaviour may not be all that much different than how humans handle life

By Bruce Derksen February 6, 2018

There are many things I have learned over the years about what makes a good pen checker in the feedlot. In my opinion, one of the most important is learning about the flight zones of cattle. Earlier in my career, I believed it was something you either understood or didn’t. There was no middle ground […] Read more

Cattleman’s Corner, Livestock

The era of productive information overload

The days of a few notes in a notebook appear to be long gone

By Bruce Derksen November 16, 2017

A few short years ago after I had begun working for a fairly new feedlot, as old Sonny and I were working up a sweat pulling a stubborn Hereford calf with a bad cough, I made a mental note to somehow check if I had pulled this fellow before and if so, how many times, […] Read more

Cattleman’s Corner

Managing yardage — The silent profit killer

By Sean McGrath February 25, 2015

I was running rations on Cowbytes beef management program the other day, which is an interesting and important process around our ranch. Through proper feed testing and ration balancing I can correct and solve potential dietary deficiencies ahead of time and also have enough lead time to find least-cost solutions to one of our largest […] Read more

U.S. grains: Soybeans retreat as demand worries overshadow USDA’s production cut

U.S. livestock: Cattle slip on profit taking, technicals after weak beef export data

Canada looking at support for canola farmers hit by China tariffs, says Carney

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U.S. grains: Soybeans retreat as demand worries overshadow USDA’s production cut

U.S. livestock: Cattle slip on profit taking, technicals after weak beef export data

Canada looking at support for canola farmers hit by China tariffs, says Carney

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Cyle and Erika Stewart

These aren’t your daddy’s cow herds

Flight zones can teach some lessons

The era of productive information overload

Managing yardage — The silent profit killer

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