Livestock
Reading Time: 2 minutes For the week ending July 20, Western Canadian yearlings traded $8-$15 above prices from seven days earlier. Values for larger groups of quality calves were up $8 to $10 from a week earlier while run of the mill smaller packages were relatively unchanged.
Klassen: Feeder market leaps higher
Semi-finalists announced in cattle methane reduction challenge
Reading Time: 2 minutes Thirteen semi-finalists were announced today in a federal challenge to come up with economically viable and scalable methane-reduction practices for beef and dairy cattle.
WATCH: Kelln solar makes waves in beef industry
Reading Time: 2 minutes Kelln Solar is a remote watering system company based out of Lumsden, Sask. While the company was originally created for the agricultural industry, they have expanded into work for cabins, lighting and small power solutions.
Beef experts share lessons learned from three years of drought
Reading Time: 2 minutes Prairie beef farmers were forced to find new feed sources, learn new processes and make difficult decisions in managing their feed inventories in the past few years.
Virtual fencing piloted in northern Saskatchewan
Reading Time: 2 minutes A pilot project of the virtual fencing company known as Vence is underway on the ranch of John and Deanne Chuiko in northern Saskatchewan. The Chuiko’s run CJ Ranching near St. Walburg, Sask.
Chicken culling, disposal raise concern as bird flu spreads in U.S.
Reading Time: 3 minutes The spread of bird flu among poultry and dairy farms has heightened some health experts' concerns that the process of killing and disposing of poultry infected with the virus may pose a risk to humans and livestock.
Testigrip cuts off circulation at Ag in Motion
Reading Time: 2 minutes Jodi Suchoplas has big plans to market her invention around the world. She was an Innovation Award winner at Ag in Motion.
From AIM: Perennial and annual grazing mixes go head-to-head
Reading Time: 2 minutes Grazing study compares production, animal performance and sustainability metrics across perennial and annual multi-species mixes
From Ag in Motion: Farm does double duty
Reading Time: 2 minutes Rob Wunder, who farms with his family south of Foam Lake, Sask., spoke about the synergies between grain farming and cattle during the Canadian Forage and Grasslands Association lunch and learn at Ag in Motion on Wednesday.
Taking the human out of pressure washing
Reading Time: < 1 minute Pressure washing is an unpopular job on livestock farms that is increasingly solved with automation
A message from April Stewart, Country Guide's Associate Editor
