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The worst breeding wrecks occur in single sire mating or when the dominant bull is infertile.
Beef cattle, Livestock

Take bull health by the horns

Beef 911: A proactive approach can ensure a successful breeding season for your herd

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Herd bulls can be forgotten at times but attention turns to them now, just before the breeding season. Bulls can be hard to handle, but there are good facilities for examining and treating them. Bulls should be vaccinated for most things you give to cows, with the exception of scours vaccines. Deworming and lice control should always be
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Beef cattle, Hogs, Livestock, Markets

U.S. livestock: CME cattle futures mixed, hog futures lower, amid demand questions

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Chicago | Reuters – Chicago Mercantile Exchange cattle futures ended Monday mixed, after conflicting market signals sent feeder cattle futures lower and nearby live cattle contracts slightly higher. Lean hog futures eased, as market participants wrestled with growing uncertainty over consumer demand for meat as the U.S. enters into the traditional summer grilling season. In
Mark Olson, president of Flokk Systems, reads an RFID tag with the Flokk reader. The product promises to bring farm data into easy, practical use in the cow-calf side of the cattle sector.
Beef cattle, News

Device promises practical cow-calf data collection

Alberta company aims for easy cow-side data collection and traceability

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Glacier FarmMedia – When Bill Leask and Mark Olson met at a Lion’s Club meeting about four years ago, Leask was a cow-calf operator with a need and Olson was an information technology expert who could build him a solution. That meeting resulted in the development of Flokk Systems, pitched as a durable hardware and
Grass-fed production versus the conventional feedlot value chain is among the sustainability schisms in the beef sector.
Beef cattle, Livestock

Grain versus grass-fed sparks beef sustainability debate

Panelist says carbon sequestration from pasture should give grass-fed the nod

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Glacier FarmMedia – Comparing the climate impact of grass-fed versus grain-fed beef isn’t straightforward, according to panelists at the Guelph Organic Conference. A recent study claimed grain-fed beef has less of a carbon impact, but Ontario farmer Ted Zettel believes that research failed to account for the long-term capacity of pasture-based farming to sequester carbon
For beef producers, artificial intelligence could provide valuable insight into farm management.
Beef cattle, Livestock

AI and beef production: When good isn’t enough anymore

AI is bringing a new era to the beef sector, and status-quo thinking won’t cut it

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Glacier FarmMedia – You may run a good beef farm, maybe even a great one. Making yourself remarkable, however, is another matter in the age of explosive artificial intelligence (AI) technology. That was the message from one technology expert speaking to the Alberta Beef Industry Conference earlier this year. Why it matters: Agriculture, like other
Carrier identification coming for dairy genetic defects
Beef cattle, Dairy cattle, Livestock

Carrier identification coming for dairy genetic defects

GENETICS | Lactanet partners with Angus group to help producers optimize beef-on-dairy genetics

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More dairy producers are interested in getting a slice of the beef pie these days. That’s led Lactanet to work with an U.S.-based Angus association to share genotyping of Angus bulls from Canada, the U.S. and Australia and improve breeding decisions for those hybrid farms. Brian Van Doormaal, chief services officer for Lactanet, described the
A Moonsyst Smart Rumen Bolus is inserted at MBFI’s Brookdale Farm north of Brandon.
Beef cattle, News

Gut sensors may be one high-tech answer to reproductive efficiency in cattle

From sensors made to swallow to the cow version of Big Brother, MBFI is putting reproductive optimizing technologies to the test

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A research project underway at Manitoba Beef and Forage Initiatives (MBFI) north of Brandon might help cattle operations across the Prairies take their replacement heifer game plan to the next level. MBFI is one of three western Canadian sites feeding data into a four-year study aimed at evaluating how various novel technologies might improve reproductive

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