Source: Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs
Today's feedlot rations often contain a high inclusion of grains and grain byproducts with some level of roughage inclusion. While the objective of feeding finishing cattle a ration with a high amount of...
Source: Government of Saskatchewan
When faced with a shortage of feed, you often can still maintain your livestock herd. You may have to use feeds on which you normally would not rely. You may have to cull. You will have...
Source: Beef Cattle Research Council
Project Title: Effect of Alternative Feeding Dried Distillers Grains on Animal Health in Feedlot Cattle
Researchers: Steve Hendrick, Ph.D. steve.hendrick@usask.ca Steve Hendrick, Ph.D. and John McKinnon, Ph.D. (University of Saskatchewan), Eugene Janzen, Ph.D. (University of Calgary),...
Source: Beef Cattle Research Council
Project Title:
Evaluation of Distillers’ Grains from Ethanol Plants for Feedlot Cattle
Researchers:
Wenzhu Yang yangw@agr.gc.ca
Tim McAllister, Karen Beauchemin, M.L. He (AAFC Lethbridge) and John McKinnon (University of Saskatchewan)
Background
Rumen microbes convert dietary starch and fiber into volatile fatty...
Source: Alberta Cattle Feeders’ Association
On February 11, the Alberta Cattle Feeders’ Association hosted an information session in Picture Butte, AB, about the challenges of dust management in feedlots, laying out strategies to help operators control the common problem.
Subject matter experts...
Source: Alberta Agriculture and Forestry, http://www.agric.gov.ab.ca/
Grass tetany refers to animals that exhibit tetany-like symptoms frequently associated with cattle being turned out on lush pasture. Grass tetany is a disease caused by low levels of magnesium in blood of cattle. It...
Source: Alberta Beef Producers
Project No.: 0005-019
Research Institution: University of Calgary (Faculty of Veterinary Medicine)
Lead Researcher: Dr. Eugene Janzen
“Pathological Examination of Three Selected Syndromes of Feedlot Cattle”
Background:
The beef industry tends to focus on diseases that have the greatest apparent impact...
Source: Alberta Agriculture and Forestry, http://www.agric.gov.ab.ca/
Introduction
A cattle feeder should be able to answer these three questions: 1) when will the cattle “finish”, 2) what is the expected price of fed cattle by that time, and 3) is feeding those animals...
Source: Alberta Beef Producers
PROJECT NO.: 0008-016
RESEARCH INSTITUTION: Lakeland Agricultural Research Association
LEAD RESEARCHER: Meghan Elsen
Background:
Each of Alberta’s crop zones has agronomic and forage yield information for grasses and legume varieties. Grain yield data (but not forage yield data) is also...
Source: Alberta Agriculture and Forestry
What is the latest number of cattle in feedlot before going to market? Jason Wood, provincial livestock market analyst with Alberta Agriculture and Forestry, compares the latest cattle on feed reports and looks at the...
