Evaluating diet quality selected by grazing beef cattle using photographic guidelines Both animal productivity and ranch profitability can be affected by the nutritional management of grazing beef cattle.

A year ago, dairy “groundhogs” were poking their heads out of barns and milking parlors, optimistic 2017 would bring better financial times – a prediction that didn’t last. The USDA’s latest price and margin reports foreshadow a more cautious outlook for 2018.

Amy Freeburg was elected president of the National Hay Association in September 2017.

Since the mid-1800s, there have been efforts to characterize the value of forage and predict its effects on animal production. Joe Burns defined this issue with, “The characteristic of a forage that composes its nutritive value (NVAL) and its consumption and conversion by the animal determines the quality of the nutrient entity and provides an estimate of its forage quality.”

More than 200 stakeholders from various segments of the dairy and food industry gathered in Ottawa, on Nov. 7 and 8, to discuss the state of sustainability in the dairy industry and where it is headed in the future.

A monthly safety meeting. “It’s too hard to get everyone together.” “We’re too busy working.” These reasons to avoid meeting monthly to discuss safety may seem valid at the time of delivery.

Our 33-year-old daughter was lamenting the fact there is no longer a Sears Christmas Wish Book. Decades ago, she delighted in flipping pages of the coloured catalogue seeking out requests for her wish list, hoping the cherished gifts would be under our Christmas tree.