Keystone Agricultural Producers is looking for other commodity group partners on a soil health roundtable following Senate report calling for more action on soil health improvement.  |  File photo

KAP to pursue soil health roundtable

Keystone Agricultural Producers is looking for other commodity group partners on the conservation-based initiative

Glacier FarmMedia – Keystone Agricultural Producers plans to establish a soil health roundtable, encouraged by the recent release of a Senate report on the health of Canadian soils. The report, “Critical Ground: Why Soil is Essential to Canada’s Economic, Environmental, Human and Social Health” was released by the Senate’s agriculture and forestry committee in June. […] Read more

Producers should ideally ensure forage growth is adequate — the three to four leaf stage and 15 centimetres tall — before turning cattle out to pasture so that their nutritional needs will be met.  |  File photo

Pasture outlook seen as ‘cautiously optimistic’

Agronomists urge cattle producers to practise patience when they are tempted to graze immature pastures this spring

The grazing season has had some memorably bad starts in recent years, but 2024 won’t likely be one of them. Producers had a better feed buffer last fall. In 2022, for example, turnout was hindered by the double whammy of a cold, wet spring and the lingering impacts of the 2021 drought on feed supplies […] Read more