Proudly Canadian
Proudly Canadian
Edie Creek Angus is a farm business built around a minimum-maintenance Angus cow herd thriving in a forage-based environment
If you want your cow herd to thrive on Prairie forages, don’t start with genetics from animals accustomed to having grain buckets chained to their chins. That’s the hard lesson Jonathan Bouw learned a few years back after their farm stopped buying feeders and began keeping only their own calves to finish. Bouw, his brotherBirdsfoot trefoil is a challenge to grow and harvest, but the perennial can prevent bloating in grazers
From a distance it might just seem like another field of yellow canola, but get up close and you will see something that looks quite different. Birdsfoot trefoil, although not widely grown for seed in Manitoba, is a yellow-flowered legume offering benefits to pasture-grazed animals. A new field of the picturesque seed crop was one
