Grazing

Can your approach to backgrounding calves impact finishing performance and carcass characteristics down the line?

For producers in the Fescue Belt, the impact of endophyte-infected fescue on the cattle that graze it is no secret.

Most of us have received the dreaded phone call, “The cows are in the neighbor’s yard again.” Hopefully, the call comes during the day while you are home and not on the anniversary weekend trip you had put off for the last five years or in the middle of the night.

Efficient grazing of forage is a key component in profitability of a ranching operation and is partly achieved by cattle consuming most of the plant species across the entire pasture.

“We abuse land because we see it as a commodity belonging to us. When we begin to see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.”

Rancher Steve Kenyon moved to Alberta because it was supposed to have more water than the neighboring province of Saskatchewan.