Cow/Calf

Provides general information on production and marketing of organic beef.

Handling facilities are an essential part of any cattle operation. Well-built, functional facilities contribute much to easy, safe and rapid handling of cattle.

This publication discusses components and alternatives to be considered when establishing a beef cattle facility.

Feeding beef cattle during Saskatchewan winters can be a challenging experience.

A five year annual projection for an existing beef cow-calf operation. 

Creep-feeding is the practice of providing supplemental feed to calves during the grazing season in order to increase the average daily gain and weaning weight when calves are nursing their dams.

The Canada Plan Service is a co-operative provincial network of agricultural engineers, design draftspersons and livestock specialists. It is concerned with the planning, design and construction of modern farm buildings to serve the needs of Canadian agriculture. The Service gathers ideas from across the country and develops these as engineered construction and management recommendations. This makes the latest building technologies and farmstead management practices available to all Canadian farmers

A severe frost during the growing season, or wet, humid weather during harvest can result in an abundance of crops unfit for human consumption.

This publication addresses issues related to feeding livestock, particularly after a growing season drought followed by late season moisture.

During times of feed shortages, alternative forages not normally fed are often used. Kochia (Kochia scoparia) is a plant that can be used for feed.

This bulletin is intended to provide ideas, suggestions and alternatives which you may incorporate in your livestock operation to get you through a feed shortage and to plan for the next one.

Estimates the time, machinery and material requirements to build a fence.

Animals have specific requirements for minerals. These requirements are based on the type, weight and age, as well as the rate of performance (weight gain, level of milk production, pregnancy, etc.) expected of the animal.

Death of animals is a normal occurrence and represents a loss to the operator. Even the best livestock producers will have losses between two and three per cent, but higher rates can occur. There are several options for managing livestock mortalities.

 There has been a renewed interest in constructing and using mobile windbreak fences for winter feeding on pastures and cropland.

(Alfalfa Dehy, Suncure, Grain Screening Pellets, Canola Meal and Pellets)

Can green flax be used for livestock feed? What is prussic acid and how is it formed in green flax? What levels of prussic acid are toxic to livestock? What are the symptoms of prussic acid poisoning? Can harvest and feeding management influence prussic acid levels? Are nitrate levels a concern in feeding flax straw?

Feed value is an important factor when buying or selling hay. Buyers and sellers require an accurate and effective way of communicating the quality of hay using a method that best describes the feed value to livestock.

Many beef producers have successfully utilized straw in their winter feeding program.

Herbivores, both ruminants and non-ruminants, are unique in that they are able to utilize roughages.

Trace minerals are essential to maintain animal health, production and reproduction, but are required in trace or minute amounts.

Any time you can get your cows to feed themselves (winter range, swath grazing, crop aftermath, etc.), it reduces winter feeding costs and improves your bottom line.