Veterinarian Dr. Kip Lukasiewicz, head of animal handling, field research and facility design for Production Animal Consultation, was on hand at this summer’s Canadian Beef Industry Conference, in London, ON, to demonstrate the tools you need to incorporate low-stress cattle handling on your ranch.
Heat detection is key for achieving your herd’s targets this breeding season. Most cows will display signs of heat between the hours of 9pm and 7am so relying on observation alone to identify cows in heat could easily result in cows being missed. Tara Heaney, Teagasc KT Walsh Scholar, Teagasc Navan, explains here that tail painting is an easy and effective aid that can help you achieve a high heat detection rate.
Animals are more comfortable around other animals. It’s the notion behind a cattle-herding technique where human handlers keep an eye on livestock while on horseback rather than a rolling machine.
This video traces a century and a half of innovative men and women who invented faster, safer ways to milk cows.
Hundreds of Australian farmers are using drones to make their operations more efficient and for some, it's also making the job safer. Instead of it taking three people on quad bikes to round up the cattle, grazier Will Wilson is doing the job with his drone. Wilson says the technology wouldn't replace jobs on the ground. Workers are still needed to get cattle through the yard.
This video demonstrates the use of drones on their ranch.
Land makes up twenty-nine percent of the Earth's surface and of that, thirty-eight percent is used within the agricultural industry. They are split into two categories. They are arable land, which is used for crop production, and marginal land which is unfit for crop production but great to raise livestock like cattle and other ruminants who can navigate the terrain.
Watch this short, practical video providing simple, easy-to-adopt tips for working safely around large animals. This video focuses on PPE.
Ce site des producteurs laitiers du Canada offre des leçons et des activités pour jeunes écoliers au sujet de la nutrition.
Il s'agit de naviguer le site français et cliquer pour la version française des activités.
This video is chapter 1 of an 8 part training series for the correct handling and management of livestock. The focus of this chapter is general cattle behaviour and how to manage it.
For over 50 years, members of the Livestock Marketers of Saskatchewan (LMS) have been committed to our goal of promoting competitive bidding in the marketing of livestock.
This video is a training resource produced by the Livestock Marketers of Saskatchewan (LMS). Although this video is meant for training employees, it still touches on general considerations for loading cattle for shipment.
Blairs.Ag, a seedstock operation based in Saskatchewan, Canada, markets Angus, Red Angus and Hereford genetics to producers in Canada and around the world. At the National Western Stock Show in Denver, Chad Haaland describes how the operation also has begun marketing beef directly to local consumers.
Head into the field with stockmanship expert Curt Pate for some tips on how to move cattle using an ATV.
Season 2, Episode 5: Welcome back to Pine Ranch, today Erika and family are separating the cattle into feeding groups and moving the different groups to their winter fields. The mature cows are separated from the younger cows because older cows will push the younger cattle off of feed.
Erika also updates us on how heifer and steer calves are adjusting to being weaned and fed a mixed ration.
Alberta beef producers Tyler and Nancy Haraga share details of their "winter from hell," when they faced a Cryptosporidium outbreak and how they recovered using team-based One Health Strategies.
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UT AgResearch, Extension and Animal Science are using precision agriculture technology to gather information for Tennessee beef producers. Here see some of this equipment and learn about the act of generosity that made it possible.
In this video, Ron Gill discusses how to read a feed label.
Lyndsey Smith chats with Jack Kyle of OMAFRA about the benefits of rotational grazing.
A career as an auctioneer was an easy sell for Ryan Hurlburt. Growing up on a cow-calf operation northwest of Saskatoon, he attended many livestock and machinery auctions that grabbed his interest at an early age.