Managing injuries | Athletic therapists are an important part of modern day rodeos
When a rodeo cowboy hits the dust, chances are he will limp over to a team of athletic specialists who can help ease the pain. Since 1983, the Canadian Professional Rodeo Sport Medicine Team has been helping these athletes recover and get back in the saddle. “We co-ordinate care prior to the rodeo, during the […] Read more
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Cowgirl’s Summer wins scholarship
The light falling across a steer’s face was the inspiration for Rebecca Shuttleworth’s prize-winning drawing in this year’s Calgary Stampede youth art competition. Shuttleworth of Balzac, Alta., hopes to earn a fine arts degree from the University of Leth-bridge. Her pencil sketch, called A Cowgirl’s Summer, earned her a $2,000 scholarship. Shuttleworth recently graduated from […] Read more
Auctioneer rises up the ranks
Practice makes perfect and Travis Rogers proved it. After entering auctioneer competitions for six years, he has an international title on his list of accomplishments. The 36-year-old auctioneer and beef producer from Rochester, Alta., is the 2014 Calgary Stampede international livestock champion. Last year he was runner up at the same competition and was also […] Read more
Novice sheep shearer gets expert advice
Sheep shearing competitions are for the fleet of foot. Clad in greasy trousers and moccasins, the shearers grab struggling lambs and hold them down on a floor slick with lanolin to flawlessly re-move their coats fleece in about 70 seconds. That kind of action encouraged Fred Stewart to enter his first contest with six weeks […] Read more
Rogers wins Stampede’s international livestock auctioneer title
Practice makes perfect and after entering auctioneer competitions for six years Travis Rogers has added an international title to his list of accomplishments. The 36-year-old auctioneer and beef producer from Rochester, Alta. is the 2014 Calgary Stampede international livestock auctioneer champion. Last year he was runner up at this competition and was also the 2013 […] Read more
Good food makes good breeding bull: study
A better than average diet for bull calves could make them superior herd sires. “We could get bulls with larger testes and more sperm by just feeding them really well,” said Dr. John Kastelic of the University of Calgary’s faculty of veterinary medicine. The effect of nutrition on bull calves is a research project by […] Read more
Phosphorus targeted on Bow River
The Bow River basin covers two percent of Alberta’s land base but is home to more than one-third of its population. That population could double to more than two million people within 25 years, placing more stress on the ecosystem from the headwaters in the Rocky Mountains to the Saskatchewan border. Water use and water […] Read more
U.S. inspection costs irk Canadian truckers
Proposed increase to quarantine fees | Group says increased fees at the border conflict with trade agreements
A proposal to raise agricultural quarantine inspection fees at the U.S. border has transporters crying foul. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has proposed a rule that would increase fees to cover the full cost of inspections to keep pests, food borne pathogens and disease out of the country. The increase affects trucks, railways, maritime vessels […] Read moreVeteran Stampede voice slowly hangs up his hat
Bruce Roy partially pastures his horse voice
When Bruce Roy was a history teacher he made sure his students got a full helping of Alberta heritage that included the story of the horse. “It wasn’t on the curriculum and the kids loved it,” he said. Roy has loved draft horses since his childhood on a farm near High River where frequent visits […] Read morePuzzling calf deaths due to vitamin E deficiency
It took 50 hours of detective work before veterinarians could figure out what was killing newborn calves at an east-central Alberta farm. The probable diagnosis was a rare condition called hypovitaminosis E, a severe deficiency in vitamin E. The case started last year when a farm at Irma reported a number of unexplained calf deaths […] Read more
