Livestock
Reading Time: < 1 minute The 2011 Western Canadian Holistic Management Conference is being held in Lloydminster on Feb. 15-16. This is the premier holistic management (HM) event in Canada. Topics include how to apply holistic management on your operation, innovative grazing methods, winter grazing options, no-till production for cropping and grazing, succession planning, and holistic goal setting. More information […] Read more
Holistic Management Conference
Turning Your Herd Into A Mob Can Benefit Pastures
Reading Time: 4 minutes It’s called mob grazing and can create a flurry of activity on both sides of an electric fence. Bruce Downey has been mob grazing his cattle in east-central Alberta since 2004, and is starting to see significant improvement in his pastures. But the sight of a thousand or more cattle in a small confined area […] Read more
Know How To Grow The Right Corn Before Feeding To Cows
Reading Time: 2 minutes Corn can be a good option for cattle feed, as long as producers consider all the things they must do in order to grow and feed it, particularly in this colder climate, says Bart Lardner, a senior research scientist at the Western Beef Development Centre. There are many factors to consider, Lardner said in a […] Read more
Know Your Full Yardage Costs
Reading Time: 2 minutes Perhaps one of the most misunderstood terms in the cattle industry is yardage. What is yardage? Yardage is your fixed costs, such as machinery and facilities, and the variable costs related to those fixed costs. These include interest, depreciation, taxes and insurance, repairs, utilities, custom work, and labour. Yardage then is your daily non-feed costs […] Read more
Canadian pork seen gaining as Korea eases tariffs
Canada is expected to benefit from South Korea’s decision to temporarily remove a 25 per cent tariff on imported pork as Seoul tries to stabilize pork prices during a severe outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease. “The temporary removal of the tariff on pork by South Korea will create a vacuum for all major shippers of pork, […] Read more
Sask. boosts supports for use of ag consultants
Saskatchewan farmers and ranchers under age 40 can now get more provincial funding for the use of farm-related consulting services and training. The provincial and federal governments on Thursday said they would now pay up to 90 per cent of the costs for business consulting services, farm-related education and training programs through the Farm Business […] Read more
Ont. forage growers offered pilot excess-rain coverage
A handful of Ontario’s forage growers will be able to insure their first cut of hay or haylage against excess rainfall starting in the 2011 season. Agricorp, the province’s farm program delivery agency, has added a pilot excess rainfall coverage option to its Forage Rainfall plan for 2011, on top of the insufficient-rain coverage already […] Read more
Efforts afoot to restore beef access to Taiwan
(Commodity News Service Canada) — Various efforts are underway in hopes of allowing Canadian beef back into Taiwan, according to an industry representative. Taiwan, after finding traces of the feed ingredient ractopamine present in eight U.S. beef samples and one from Canada earlier this month, has banned the import of beef shipments. “There are currently […] Read more
N.B. milk prices to rise five cents per litre
New Brunswick consumers can expect to see a milk price increase of five cents per litre in stores in the province starting Tuesday (Feb. 1). “The price of milk in New Brunswick will rise 2.7 per cent over last year’s price, which reflects the significant increases that dairy producers and processors have had in their […] Read more
FluSure swine vaccines added to combo products
Pfizer Animal Health’s FluSure XP vaccine, for use against H1N1 and H3N2 swine flu (SIV) strains, has been rolled into a pair of new combination products for the Canadian market. The first, FluSure XP/FarrowSure Gold B, is registered for use in healthy breeding swine, including pregnant sows and gilts, the company said in a release […] Read more
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