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...
Source: Source: University of Minnesota Extension
Quick facts
Implants are only one factor affecting quality grade.
You can’t change the genetics of cattle coming into the feedlot, but you can affect its environment in the feedyard.
Focus on feedlot performance for...
Source: Source: Alberta Agriculture and Forestry
Changes are being made to Alberta’s Feeder Association Loan Guarantee Program to help support competitiveness and growth in Alberta’s livestock industry.
The Feeder Associations Guarantee Regulation is being amended to increase loan limits from $1 million...
Source: Alberta Agriculture and Forestry, http://www.agric.gov.ab.ca/
Winter cereals are an excellent way to add flexibility to a livestock operation by providing supplemental or emergency pasture for grazing livestock. These crops produce sufficient growth throughout the growing season to provide summer pasture....
Source: Alberta Cattle Feeders' Association
Feeding cattle the best diet for growth is a complicated business. Now, new technology is making it not only easier to do but also more efficient.
Micro-machine technology enables cattle feeders to accurately measure individual additives...
Source: Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs
The analogy of farm animals as manufacturing machines has been employed for a long time to represent the different aspects of the whole animals' energetic metabolism. Similar to machines, animals consume fuel...
Source: Beef Cattle Research Council, www.BeefResearch.ca
Feed efficiency in cattle can make or break profitability in the feeding sector, and has environmental implications. The costs of buying a calf and the feed needed to finish it are the two largest variable...
Source: Alberta Beef Producers
“A cross-sectional survey of cattle on entry to Alberta feedlots to measure prevalence and factors associated with antimicrobial resistance in respiratory isolates.”
LEAD RESEARCHER: Dr. Michele Anholt (Prairie Oyster Ventures)
COLLABORATORS: Tim McAllister, Cassidy Klima (Agriculture and Agri-Food...
Source: Alberta Agriculture and Forestry, http://www.agric.gov.ab.ca/
Testing feed allows producers to develop a strategy that ensures all cattle in the herd are fed to meet their production goals while avoiding extra costs. Andrea Hanson, livestock extension specialist with Alberta Agriculture and...
