Uncomfortable silence.
If you don’t like it, you know the kind. Perhaps you’re just getting to know somebody, and you reach a point in the conversation where that silence hangs heavy and it makes you uneasy.
I’m a talker by nature...
This is what farm stress looks like for us. An empty feedyard amidst a grass and forage production crisis.
This spring has been unlike any other in our decades of farming. Drought combined with late, hard frosts, has resulted in...
Published on Jun 21, 2019
• This week in the markets - Cash fed cattle were $3 lower this week and feeder cattle were steady to $5 lower this week. The August live cattle futures contract closed $1.70 lower this...
On May 15th and 16th I took part in the Beef Feedlot Welfare Auditor Training in Lethbridge, AB. However, the training started before that with two prerequisite online courses. First, we were required to take Beef Feedlot 201. The...
Source: Beef Cattle Research Council, www.BeefResearch.ca,
Cover crops, also referred to as polycrops or cocktail crops, are receiving a lot of media hype for their potential for grazing and claims related to reduced inputs and improved soil health. Jillian Bainard,...
Everything in life is a trade off: Marry the woman of your dreams; then brace for the in-laws. Fortunately, genomics has the potential to change the rules when it comes to beef cattle, enabling producers to enjoy the upside...
Service clattered to its feet with Telex, now running with mobile technology
For a fledging Western Canadian livestock feeding industry in late 1960s and early 1970s, any independent means to discover the price of slaughter cattle was a very useful...
As we look forward to the upcoming forage season, late winter is a good time to plan forage harvest and storage options. Perhaps you are feeding hay and having to remove a crusted outer layer from hay stored outside....
We sometimes associate cause and effect without knowing the real link, or as an academic buzz phrase has it, “correlation does not equal causation.” A quick search provides a humorous example. Did you know ice cream sales and shark...
Source: Beef Cattle Research Council, www.BeefResearch.ca,
The profile of plant-based proteins has grown exponentially over the past decade. Food companies are investing heavily in the development of new vegetarian and vegan products like new meatless burgers made from peas, which are...
