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VIDEO: Good soil critical to producing good calves says Alberta cattle producer Doug Wray

By Allan Dawson June 24, 2015

Doug Wray, an Irricana, Alta., cow-calf producer and president of the Canadian Forage and Grassland Association, talked to Manitoba Co-operator reporter Allan Dawson June 10 about his conversion from a mixed farm and the need for rain. Additional video footage provided by Laura Rance

Beef cattle, News

Beef leaders strive to drive industry forward

Goals include boosting production efficiency by 15 per cent and increasing  carcass cut-out value by 15 per cent in just five years

By Alexis Kienlen January 15, 2015

Business gurus call them Big Hairy Audacious Goals — and now Canadian beef leaders have to figure out how to achieve the ones they’ve set for their industry. “You have to pick a place to get to,” said Trevor Atchison, co-chair of the National Beef Strategic Planning Group. “You can’t make every goal in life,

Beef cattle, Livestock

Canada Beef’s First President Focusing On Strengths

By Sheri Monk September 8, 2011

While the term “mega-agency” has been used to describe Canada Beef Inc. (CBI), its very first president prefers to think in smaller, more specialized terms. “It’s funny, you know, I’ve heard that ‘mega-agency’ term and frankly, I see it a little bit differently. I see it more from a boutique point of view. We’re going

Beef cattle, Livestock

BIXS System Ready For Prime Time – for Aug. 26, 2010

By Daniel Winters August 26, 2010

CALGARY Ranchers who wondered why they bothered to put RFID tags in their calves’ ears every spring will soon find out the reason. After extensive beta-testing by computer-savvy ranchers this summer, the online record-keeping system called the BIXS, or Beef InfoXchange System, will be ready for launch for the cow-calf sector by September of this

Livestock, News

Flap Over EFAP Funding

By Daniel Winters February 11, 2010

“If you saw my application – it would make a grown man weep” – BRIAN STERLING First, there was the Environmental Farm Plan in 2005. It met with rave reviews from producers, who lined up in droves to become involved in the process – and to get their share of freebies from the four-year program’s

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U.S. grains: Soybeans hit six-week low as Brazilian harvest looms; corn, wheat sag

U.S. livestock: CME cattle futures end lower, hogs mostly lower

CFIA adds controls for imports of Spanish feed ingredients after African swine fever outbreak

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VIDEO: Good soil critical to producing good calves says Alberta cattle producer Doug Wray

Beef leaders strive to drive industry forward

Canada Beef’s First President Focusing On Strengths

BIXS System Ready For Prime Time – for Aug. 26, 2010

Flap Over EFAP Funding

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