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Larger Runs Of Calves Not Expected Till October

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Ma n i – toba cattle auction yards generally reported a continuation of strong demand for yearlings and calves during the week ended Sept. 16, although the butcher animals came under a little pressure. There is aggressive trade on the yearlings, said Robin Hill of Heartland Livestock Services at Virden. New-crop calves were also starting
Livestock

Manitoba’s Yearlings Are Alberta Bound

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Ca t t l e mov ing through Manitoba s auction yards continued to see strong demand and prices during the week ended Sept. 9, although the start of the fall run is still a few weeks away. Yearlings accounted for most of the animals moving through the Manitoba auction yards during the week, with
Livestock, Other livestock

Weaning Too Quickly Cause Aftereffects That Last A Lifetime

Weaning has a significant lifetime impact on a horse s well-being because of the nutritional, emotional, mental, physical, and social changes that occur at that time. Foals are very dependent on their mother s milk at four months of age, after which they gradually become nutritionally independent. Ideally by six months they will have made
Livestock

Dry Weather Drives Supply, Demand Remains Up

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Activity is slowly starting to pick up at cattle auction yards around Manitoba, with good demand and solid prices reported for the animals moving during the week ended Aug. 26. Pastures are on the dry side in many areas of the province, bringing some yearlings to market a little earlier than normal. Top-end bids were
Beef cattle, Livestock

Rumour Mill Wrong About Packers Dragging Their Feet

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There is no validity to rumours that meat packers may be reluctant to embrace the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association’s (CCA) Beef InfoXchange System (BIXS), says spokesman Larry Thomas. “On the packer question I can share that yes, we have not been public in sounding the horns about packer support for BIXS, but rest assured we are
Livestock

Prices Strong Well Ahead Of Fall Run

Ma n i – toba cattle auction yards are starting to shake out the cobwebs after the summer slowdown, with a number of locations that had shut down for the season reopening during the past week. The fall run is still some time away and cattle remain out to pasture for the most part, but
Hogs, Livestock

Pellets And Fine Grind Most Efficient For Pig Diets

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Bernie Peet is president of Pork Chain Consulting Ltd. of Lacombe, Alberta, and editor of Western Hog Journal. His columns will run every second week in the Manitoba Co-operator. Pelleted feed made of finely ground ingredients is considerably more efficient than more coarsely ground feed provided in meal form, according to a recently published large-scale
Crops, Forages, Livestock

Winter Feeding System Saves Time And Money

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If there were more hours in the day, Wayne Heinrichs might never have taken up winter grazing. But bale shredding and refilling paddocks were taking the better part of an afternoon and those were hours the Brandonarea cattle producer didn’t have. So a few years ago, Heinrichs began looking at ways to extend the grazing
Hogs, Livestock

Early Nursery Performance Not Affected By Diet Complexity

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Bernie Peet is president of Pork Chain Consulting Ltd. of Lacombe, Alberta, and editor of Western Hog Journal. His columns will run every second week in the Manitoba Co-operator. Recent research by Dr. Denise Beaulieu at the Prairie Swine Centre suggests that the response of newly weaned pigs to two dietary regimes based on a

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