Although cover crops with diverse forages can build up desirable soil traits, grazing cattle showed less soil health value than researchers expected.
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Grazing fails to move needle on cover crop soil health study
Saskatchewan and Manitoba research found soil benefits from cover crops, but grazing made surprisingly little impact.
The guiding light of beef research
BCRC celebrates 25 years of funding research the government wouldn’t
Many beef producers might remember a time, say 25 years ago, that a 900-pound steer would be considered finished. Today, there’s a good chance that same steer would be 50 pounds away from starting the finishing process. Craig Lehr remembers. And on the 25th anniversary of the largest not-for-profit, industry-led funding agency in Canadian beef
For cattle producers, the time to attack Canada thistle is now
A herbicide application after a hard frost can hit the noxious weed where it lives
Of all the weeds beef producers should focus on, Canada thistle is high on the list. Livestock avoid the prickly plant and it’s estimated to cost Canadian ag and forestry $7.5 billion in lost revenue annually. Fall control on pasture might be one of the most effective tools in stopping growth of the weed, said one industry
Podcasts a great medium for expert beef advice
Beef 911: Podcasts are convenient and can offer what producers need to know, when they need to know it and with many ways to listen
We are all trying to get factual information on the health, production and welfare of our herds. Sometimes it is hard to stay abreast of all the information. Publications like this one, and websites of the Beef Cattle Research Council, Canadian Cattle Association and provincial beef producers’ groups, can help with that. YouTube videos, if
Study fails to support rest stop benefits for cattle: BCRC
Preconditioning appears to be more important than rest and feed stops BCRC says
To say the cattle sector is unhappy with changed transportation rules is putting it mildly. Now, results from a third Beef Cattle Research Council (BCRC) study on transportation outcomes are feeding the ire. BCRC science director Reynold Bergen said the study, summarized in a blog post titled “Strike three? Transport rest stops still don’t show a benefit
Cow-calf network promises to compare apples to apples
The national benchmarking tool has one year of data collection left
The Beef Cattle Research Council (BCRC) hopes the third and final year of data collection will fill the gaps in a national cow-calf cost of production network. The network hopes to dive deeper than general benchmarks based on industry averages and, instead, will allow producers to compare metrics with farms sharing their management practices and
More calves in the first round is a winning formula
Research council urges producers to consider the payoff from tightening the calving season
Glacier FarmMedia – According to experts, the winning numbers in the calving lottery are always the same: 60-25-10-5. And the Beef Cattle Research Council wants producers to test that theory by using its Value of Calving Distribution Calculator. Calving distribution is the percentage of calves born in each 21-day cycle during the calving season (which
A battle the beef sector can’t afford to lose
Antimicrobial resistance in cattle isn’t going away, so proper use of livestock drugs is critical
Glacier FarmMedia – There’s a microscopic war raging in your soil, and these bacteria will do whatever it takes to protect and expand their territory. “It’s like a little arms race that goes on naturally in the environment,” said Reynold Bergen, science director for the Beef Cattle Research Council (BCRC). “They’re using antibiotic resistance to
Rest stop benefits for livestock fail to stand out
Preconditioning calves did more for reducing transport stress than rest stops, according to second-year results of a closely watched study
Beef producers say the second-year results of a three-year study on animal stress and rest during transport support their arguments against last year’s federal regulation changes. Why it matters: The beef sector is hoping that results from a study on livestock transport stress might convince the Canadian Food Inspection Agency to soften transport regulation changes
Beef sector aims for new 2030 targets
The beef operation of 2030 will have a smaller environmental footprint,better grazing ecosystems and greater efficiency
The Canadian beef industry has new benchmarks to strive for in the next decade. The organizations involved in Canada’s National Beef Strategy — the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association, Canada Beef Breeds Council, Beef Cattle Research Council, Canada Beef, The National Cattle Feeders’ Association, Canadian Meat Council and Canadian Roundtable for Sustainable Beef — have announced a
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