Reading Time: 3 minutes Discover one beef producer's strategies to slash winter feed costs — and how to make sure it meets a cattle’s nutritional needs.
Winter grazing tour highlights cost-saving mix of cover crops and silage
Alternative grazing methods reduce labour and overhead, but experts stress precise rations are vital to prevent energy deficits
The Alberta ranch divorce that forced Canada to rewrite property law
How Canadian women’s contributions to farms and ranches became recognized and protected by the law
Reading Time: 5 minutes How Canadian women’s contributions to farms and ranches became recognized and protected by the law after the fallout of the landmark Murdoch v. Murdoch case
Lacombe research centre closure called ‘catastrophe’
Beef and forage sectors say industry will suffer due to deeply disappointing cuts
Reading Time: 3 minutes Cattle industry mourns loss of Agriculture Canada’s research centre included in sweeping cuts that were announced late last month.
Alberta Beef Producers gives update on potential withdrawal from CCA
Finances, governance structure remain the key issues for the commission
Reading Time: 3 minutes Alberta Beef Producers chair Doug Roxburgh discusses ABP’s plan to leave CCA during a producer’s meeting.
AAFC’s Lacombe Research and Development faces imminent closure
Industry experts say closure of Lacombe facility, other AAFC sites will be catastrophic to agriculture research
Reading Time: 5 minutes The closure of AAFC’s Alberta facility will have a lasting impact on the Canadian agriculture industry.
U.S. livestock: Cattle futures end week higher
Cattle futures on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange were stronger on Friday, with positioning ahead of a major winter storm set to move through the United States providing support.
U.S. livestock: Cattle steady ahead of feed report
Cattle futures on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange held close to unchanged on Thursday, with the bias lower in the most active months.
Canadian beef could be headed to China by next week says agriculture minister
The Canadian Cattle Association (CCA) says the Chinese market will re-open to Canadian beef — though details are still scant.
Is inflammation the real cause of milk fever in cattle?
University of Alberta researcher Burim Ametaj's new theory challenges 200 years of science
Reading Time: 4 minutes UAlberta researcher Burim Ametaj's theory challenges 200 hundred years of science and his work may change the approach for treatment.
How ‘care and compassion’ protocols drive performance at this Alberta ranch
Plateau Cattle Co. says lowering stress in calves using science-based practices leads to higher weaning weights, better health
Reading Time: 6 minutes Plateau Cattle Company says lowering stress in calves using science-based practices leads to higher weaning weights and better animal health.
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