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Livestock, Other livestock

Use Horse Sense When Winter Grazing

Many ranchers who stockpile grass or swaths to feed during the winter months have one great fear: deep, crusted snow that cows can’t punch through. In some areas, such as the northern Rocky Mountains, ranchers have tried driving a tractor or even dragging a field cultivator over the crusted snow to open it up. But
Forages, Livestock

Purple Prairie Pasture Enhancer Being Studied

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Old is new again. A native forb species once common on the Prairies is being studied as a cure for tired pastures and as a livestock feed with beneficial and unusual attributes. Purple prairie clover is a palatable legume that can be grazed at various stages of maturity. Sporting a purple, cone-shaped flower, the warm-season,
Crops, Forages, Livestock

Producers Urged To Test Nutritional Quality Of Forage

Feed testing will be especially important this year as the quality of weather-damaged or mature forage may not be adequate to meet the nutritional requirements of livestock. “With the amount of hay that has been cut late and is over-mature, or has been cut at the right time, turned twice, sat in the swath or
Crops, Forages

The Role Of Cover Crops In Healthy Soil

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Want healthier soil, higher yields and lower input costs? Then take a page from Mother Nature’s playbook. That was the message from the recent Cover Crop Field Day in Bangor, Saskatchewan, organized by the Parkland Holistic Management club. The highlight of the tour was the farm of Garry Richards who, after taking a holistic management
Livestock

Rancher Tries Out New Grazing Strategy – for Sep. 9, 2010

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When some ranchers get on in years, they get to be like a ball of rusty old barbed wire. Before even thinking about straightening them out – or talking about newfangled ideas in the cattle business – proceed with caution. But for Ron Batho, 74, who has been ranching near Oak Lake since 1952, trying
Livestock, Opinion

The Last Straw – for Aug. 5, 2010

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Cattle producers whose pastures are flooded and forage producers whose stands are drowned may well be in need of assistance this year, just like producers of annual crops. However, there are good reasons why the province should be reluctant to comply with a request to waive Crown lease fees to ranchers whose grazing lands are
Livestock

Can Cattle And Trees Get Along? – for Aug. 5, 2010

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A10-year study just east of Duck Mountain Provincial Park is finding cattle and logging can coexist. “Timber harvesting and livestock grazing has always been seen as conflicting resource use,” said Bill Gardiner, a MAFRI rangelands specialist based in Dauphin, in a presentation on the 10-year Garland Project. When Louisiana-Pacific began harvesting hardwoods on leased Crown
Forages, Livestock

Old Is New Again – for Jul. 29, 2010

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Cranky old-timers take note: putting up hay and silage to get pampered cattle through the winter is a relatively new development. In fact, not too long ago, before barbed wire and diesel fuel, buffalo roamed the Great Plains all winter long. The herds survived and thrived, mainly because Mother Nature weeded out the weaklings. Then,

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