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Funding to help make cattle data gathering easier

Partnership between Angus and Holstein association will look at sharing trait information and how to automate data management

By John Greig June 19, 2024

New funding for the Canadian Angus Association and Holstein Canada will allow them to improve the data that goes into genetic evaluations and expand into new areas including carcass quality and traits that help limit the environmental impact of beef.

News

FCC invests in breeding innovation

By Karen Briere June 18, 2024

Farm Credit Canada has invested $5 million into the accelerated breeding program at the Global Institute for Food Security.

EastGen asked attendees to look over these heifers, assess their characteristics, and decide which two to keep in the milking herd and which two to sell. After choosing, attendees were shown genomic evaluations for comparison.

Dairy, Genetics, Livestock

Dairy farmers challenged to make tough genomics choices

Heifers at Canada’s Outdoor Farm Show displayed competing genomic priorities

By Stew Slater October 5, 2023

At Rose Vega Farm near Cambridge, Luke and Kelly Donkers agree that emotion sometimes creeps its way into dairy breeding decisions. But at the recent Canada’s Outdoor Farm Show (COFS), […] Read more

File photo of farmland around an abandoned farmstead near Swift Current, Sask. (ImagineGolf/iStock/Getty Images)

Livestock

Saskatchewan front-loads AgriRecovery funding

Joint federal-provincial program development still underway

By Dave Bedard August 22, 2023

The Saskatchewan government says it will put up to $70 million toward “immediate measures” to support livestock producers, ahead of an expected federal-provincial AgriRecovery program for that purpose. Application forms […] Read more

Tiffany Wood, a Scottish physicist is CEO of Dyneval, a company with new semen analyzing technology. Photo: John Greig

Livestock

At Ag in Motion: New tester monitors bull fertility

By John Greig July 22, 2023

Glacier FarmMedia – Slow-swimming bull sperm will have no place to hide. A Scottish company, Dyneval, has created a new semen analyzer that measures a wider range of concentrations of […] Read more

Lactanet says most differences in costs for rearing and maintaining dairy animals can be attributed to differences in body weight.

Livestock

Tackling feed requirements through breeding

Lactanet publishes new body maintenance index for bulls

By Stew Slater April 11, 2023

Lactanet is introducing its Body Maintenance Requirements (BMR) evaluations for bulls this month as part of its ongoing work to help dairy producers maximize production per kilogram of dry matter […] Read more

Livestock

Initial drought list ready for 2022 livestock tax deferrals

Much of Manitoba, southern Alberta designated for 2022

By Dave Bedard August 31, 2022

Many of the Prairie livestock producers forced by drought to make “difficult herd management decisions” in the 2022 income tax year are now eligible to defer the taxable income from […] Read more

Markets

Ag balance sheet points to stable farm economy

By Terry Fries June 20, 2018

CNS Canada — Canadian farmers saw their farm equity climb almost seven per cent last year compared to the year before — and Farm Credit Canada’s principal agricultural economist said […] Read more

Livestock

Drought-related livestock tax deferral zones expand

By Farmtario Staff March 28, 2017

More ranchers in Alberta, Ontario, Quebec, British Columbia and Nova Scotia will be able to defer some of their taxable income from livestock sales in 2016 due to drought. The […] Read more

Livestock

Drought-hit tax deferral zones named

By Farmtario Staff November 22, 2016

Ottawa has seen enough drought in parts of southwestern Alberta, southern and eastern Ontario and southwestern Quebec to offer deferrals on their ranchers’ 2016 income tax from breeding livestock sales. […] Read more

Tag Archives breeding livestock

Funding to help make cattle data gathering easier

FCC invests in breeding innovation

Dairy farmers challenged to make tough genomics choices

Saskatchewan front-loads AgriRecovery funding

At Ag in Motion: New tester monitors bull fertility

Tackling feed requirements through breeding

Initial drought list ready for 2022 livestock tax deferrals

Ag balance sheet points to stable farm economy

Drought-related livestock tax deferral zones expand

Drought-hit tax deferral zones named

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