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Carrying Capacity Is Not Just About Numbers

By Angela Lovell July 21, 2011

Assessing the carrying capacity of your pasture is about more than just stocking rate. Calculating the carrying capacity of the land will help you stock to a level that maintains the health and productivity of both the land and the animals that feed on it. But how do you make that calculation? The 13 participants

Beef cattle, Forages, Livestock

Cattle Evacuation Continues Around Lake Manitoba

By Ron Friesen May 26, 2011

Art Jonasson is a farmer by long distance this year, thanks to unprecedented spring flooding on Lake Manitoba. The Vogar-area farmer’s cattle are scattered across the province because of an emergency evacuation of livestock in the region ahead of water spreading inland from the swollen lake. He has no idea when they’ll be able to

Forages, Livestock, Other livestock

Introducing Your Horse To Spring Pasture

By Carol Shwetz May 19, 2011

DVM It is tempting to allow horses unlimited access to spring pastures as soon as the grass turns green, particularly after a long winter. But management practices which make this transition a slow and steady one are beneficial to both the horse and the pasture. In natural rangeland conditions, the new spring grasses are covered

Crops, Forages, Livestock, News

Pasture Days Insurance Enters Second Year

By Ron Friesen April 7, 2011

Wet weather limited Dane Guignion’s ability to harvest hay last summer – and the time his cattle spent grazing on pasture. Guignion had crop insurance contracts for both hay production and days on pasture. He didn’t get paid for the first one. He did for the second. The reason? The hay was there but Guignion

Forages, Livestock

Purple Prairie Pasture Enhancer Being Studied

By Daniel Winters December 9, 2010

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,

Livestock

Deal To Protect Langford Community Pasture Land Inked

By Daniel Winters October 14, 2010

Aconservation easement has been inked to protect a portion of the 21,195 acres of native prairie at Langford Community Pasture. That’s good news for the endangered Prairie Skink, Manitoba’s only native lizard; residents of Neepawa, who are in the process of tapping the local aquifer for their water supplies; and about two dozen local ranchers

Forages, Livestock

Old Is New Again – for Jul. 29, 2010

By Daniel Winters July 29, 2010

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,

Crops, Forages, Livestock

Cattle Producers Want Aid Too – for Jul. 29, 2010

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff July 29, 2010

Waterlogged Manitoba cattle producers need excess moisture disaster assistance as much as grain farmers, according to the Manitoba Cattle Producers Association (MCPA). “We have producers in disastrous situations, yet there has been no assistance or relief package forthcoming, such has been extended to the grain industry,” MCPA president Major Jay Fox said in a news

Beef cattle, Forages, Livestock

Forage Council Seeks Funding For Industry Strategy

By Ron Friesen July 8, 2010

“We are going to need a reliable source of funding.” – WAYNE DIGBY, MFC The Manitoba Forage Council is requesting government assistance to implement an ambitious strategy for developing the province’s forage and grassland industry. The MFC is negotiating with Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives for an annual grant to fund research, extension services

Beef cattle, Crops, Forages, Livestock

How Do You Spell Out Bale Grazing Benefits? N, P, K, S

By Daniel Winters March 18, 2010

Paul Jungnitsch, a student from the University of Saskatchewan, in 2008 figured out a stunning back-of-the-envelope calculation on the potential benefits of wintering cattle on pasture in his master’s thesis. Using a 130-day wintering period, and figuring that there were over five million beef cattle in Canada based on 2007 StatsCan numbers, if all those

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