RED DEER – Dried distillers grain (DDG) can be successfully fed to hogs, but a swine nutritionist says it’s important to know the sources of the feed and the quality of each batch. “It is really important we know the source of the product and where the product is coming from,” Malachy Young told a […] Read more
Barbara Duckworth
Stories by Barbara Duckworth
Research centre to sell herd
Cattle producers will get a chance to pick up tried and true Charolais genetics Nov. 5 when Agriculture Canada’s research centre in One-Four, Alta., sells its herd. More than 100 purebred cows and heifers raised at the ranch in southeastern Alberta will be on sale in Lethbridge. The cows have been on the ranch since […] Read more
Review of circovirus battle instructive
RED DEER – A full blown case of circovirus disease at a southern Alberta hog operation two years ago left the farm veterinarian and manager frustrated over this serious wasting infection. At the time, circovirus was seen occasionally in young pigs but little was done about it, said swine veterinarian Pete Pawluk. One to three […] Read more
Calgary vet school opens soon
The University of Calgary veterinary school can start accepting students next fall. Approval was received from the Alberta ministry of advanced education and a letter of reasonable assurance was granted from the Council on Education representing the Canadian and American Veterinary Medical Associations. Both approvals were required before the school could accept students into the […] Read more
Beef recall traced to Alta. firm
A food recall has been issued for beef products contaminated with E. coli that trace back to Ranchers’ Beef at Balzac, Alta. The recall issued Oct. 27 involved beef derived from the now bankrupt company that was processed into ground meat and steaks at a Vancouver operation, said Garfield Balsom, food safety and recall specialist […] Read more
Ultimate bucking machine
A 10-year-old stallion from the Calgary Stampede has been named Canadian and world bareback horse of the year. Grated Coconut probably worked less than 80 seconds this year, bucking 10 different eight second events and travelling 16,000 kilometres from Marwayne, Alta., to Washington State. Every year since 2003, rodeo cowboys have voted Grated Coconut the […] Read more
Young rancher ready to take on world
BALZAC, Alta. – Dustin Lamb leafs through a large livestock catalogue and dreams of the day he can crack the U.S. show steer market. Steer competitions are big business in the United States, where winners claim prize money in the six figure range. Last year’s stock show grand champion steer in Fort Worth, Texas, sold […] Read more
Bull brings top price
RED DEER – A bull named Fully Loaded shocked its owners as they listened to the bids escalate to $70,000 at the annual Red Roundup sale in Red Deer Oct. 20. The half interest in the two-year-old Red Angus bull was a record for the 35th annual event that draws buyers and contributors from across […] Read more
Low premiums reduce age verifications
The number of age-verified cattle registered with the Canadian Cattle Identification Agency is about half of what it was last year when more than one million birth records were registered. Submissions have increased in the last few weeks for animals younger than a year but more are needed, says agency manager Julie Stitt, especially once […] Read more
Verification also applies to dairy
Canada exported about 100,000 Holsteins a year in the days before BSE changed the livestock landscape, but under the new order of business, dairy cattle will require proof of age just like beef animals. All cattle registered with Holstein Canada automatically have age verification records with the national organization, as well as the Canadian Cattle […] Read more
