Boost your calving season success: prevent weak calves and maintain gestating cow health by fortifying winter beef diets with vitamin A.
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Don’t let winter deplete your cows’ vital vitamin A reserves
Fortify gestation diets with this essential vitamin to ensure a healthy calf crop and peak reproductive performance
Surviving the Chill: High-energy diets key to calving success
Boost dietary energy to maintain body condition, ensure easier calving and increase weaning weights by 25 kg
Boost your calving season success by maintaining a BCS of 5-6 with high-energy diets to ensure healthy calves and increase weaning weights by 25 kg.
THROWBACK: A refresh on pain management practices during calving
Veterinary knowledge and the advent of NSAIDs improve animal outcomes and cow-calf bonding
Having painkillers for hard calf births can lead to healthy calves and beef cows this calving season, Manitoba veterinarians say.
THROWBACK: Preparation is key to smoother calving season
Preparing for calving season is all about getting ready early so you aren't stressed when the babies start arriving
Boost calving success by prioritizing herd nutrition, equipment prep, newborn care, and producer well-being.
THROWBACK: Pro tips for a calving crisis
When is it actually time to call in the vet?
This article from 2024 walked farmers through common calving issues, and when the dystocia is serious enough that you need to call the vet. With Manitoba’s 2026 calf crop coming, we’re digging this one out from our archive. The calf was breech. Standing a few feet away, Brandon veterinarian Dr. Grayson Ross coached the producer
Different herd, different approach needed for vaccinating calves
Intranasal calf vaccines are common, but they’re not right for every herd
Intranasal vaccines are common on Canadian beef farms, but they’re not right for every herd’s calf vaccination needs.
Grazing ‘sweet spot’ boosts pasture performance
Timing-focused approach to pasture management touted to boost forage growth, livestock gains while also cutting farmer labour and inputs
Timing-focused approach to pasture management touted to boost forage growth, livestock gains while also cutting farmer labour and inputs
Grazing cattle in a drought year
Manitoba beef farmer keeps his grazing plan adaptable to weather another drought year in the Interlake
It’s been another drought year in Manitoba’s Interlake in 2025. This beef farmer keeps his grazing plan adaptable to weather dry conditions and keep his farm resilient.
Calf hormone implants can give environmental, financial wins
Bigger calves at weaning can cut emissions intensity and land use intensity and put more money in the pocket of cow-calf farmers.
Hormone implants can lead to bigger calves — reducing greenhouse gas intensity, land use intensity and giving the beef farmer more profit, Manitoba-based model suggests.
Tighter antibiotic rules changed little for beef sector: research
Federal regulations changed the way producers procured antimicrobial drugs, but did little to change their already low use on Canadian beef farms, says study
Canadian beef farmers have needed their veterinarian to write a prescription for antibiotics since late 2018, part of efforts to fight off antimicrobial resistance. Producers haven’t had to change what they were doing much.
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