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Assess, measure, innovate, and make money with your grazing plan, says Doug Wray, who has been working on his grass management for two decades.
Livestock, Pasture

Grass is your foundation, but great grazing doesn’t happen by itself

Irricana rancher Doug Wray intensively manages his 
five dozen paddocks and makes their health his top priority

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After two decades of refining his grazing plan, Doug Wray knew long before the snow melted which of his 60 paddocks would be the first to see cows. The Irricana rancher also has a rough plan for all of his 2,000 acres of pasture for the rest of spring and into summer — but Mother […] Read more
Beef Cattle, Livestock

Big or small, data makes all the difference, says veteran cattleman

Doug Wray is a well-known intensive grazing expert but he’s also an advocate 
of using genomics to push herd performance

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If you want to make more money on your ranch, get more data. “You can’t manage what you don’t measure,” Irricana cattleman Doug Wray said at the recent Livestock Gentec conference. “We measure a lot of things. To have a successful ranching operation, you have to manage the resources you have. Every ranch is different.” […] Read more
Doug Wray
Forages, Heartland, News

Forage champion Doug Wray receives national award

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Irricana rancher and long-term forage advocate Doug Wray is the winner of the Canadian Forage and Grassland Association’s 2016 Leadership Award. “Wray is committed to continued education about grassland and forages,” the association said in a news release. “He travels extensively locally and abroad to observe grassland, forage and livestock management; and frequently shares his […] Read more
This year’s field day at the Peace Country Beef and Forage Association’s plot trials in Fairview in August drew a big crowd, eager to learn about yields and feed quality in their forage test plots.
Forages, Livestock

Hay! Guess who’s hiring a forage researcher?

New forage research job at Beaverlodge is a pleasant surprise 
after years of funding cutbacks

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The forage industry has been asking for more researchers for a long time and finally, it seems the federal government has listened. Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada recently issued a job posting for a forage researcher at its Beaverlodge research farm. It’s a term job — running until 2018 — but a step in the right […] Read more

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