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April 23, 2025Selecting Replacement Heifers: Boosting Longevity and Return on Investment Effective replacement heifer management requires a balance of careful...
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March 18, 2025Vaccines: Use as Directed 🎙️ Beef cattle vaccines teach an animal's immune system to recognize what particular pathogens look like, so that it...
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January 26, 2023Seize the Opportunities - Learnings from the Canadian Cow-Calf Cost of Production Network's Future Farm Scenarios Explore results from water system and rotational...
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November 24, 2022One Size Doesn’t Fit All -Learnings from the Canadian Cow-Calf Cost of Production Network's Future Farm Scenarios Certain management strategies have varying...
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October 18, 2022What are Profitable Farms Doing? Observations from the Canadian Cow-Calf Cost of Production Network Higher profit farms within the COP Network tend...
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September 22, 2022Making Money FOR the Farm or FROM the Farm? Depreciation and opportunity costs don’t show up as cash costs, but they have significant impact on the...
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September 15, 2022Two Farms "Right-Sized" Their Herds by Being Open to Change and Working in Sync with Nature A key aspect of maximizing profit and maintaining...
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September 1, 2022Taking Inventory of Feed Resources – How to Right-Size Your Cow Herd Part one of a two-part series on identifying the right herd size and cow size...
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August 23, 2022Registration Now Open for the 2022/2023 BCRC Webinar Series This year's topics include nutrition, feed management and record keeping.
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February 15, 2022Rebuilding with Homegrown Heifers Versus Purchasing Breeding Stock This is a guest post by Huiting Huang, Research Analyst at Canfax Research...
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January 11, 2022A Guide to Keeping Records That Help Make Profitable Decisions The start of a new season and year is the perfect time for beef producers to look back...
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November 9, 2021Every Farm Has Different Goalposts - Setting Goals and Defining Success What does a “successful” Canadian beef farm look like? How do you define...
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October 14, 2021Canadian Cow-Calf Cost of Production Network - 2021 Results You may know what you want out of your operation, but do you record what you put into it?...
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October 15, 2020A New Approach to Cost of Production Benchmarking This is Part Three of a three-part series (see Part One and Part Two). Editor’s note: this...
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September 24, 2020Networks Make The Dream Work This is Part Two of a three-part series (see Part One and Part Three). Editor’s note: this article is also available...
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September 8, 2020Why a Cost of Production Network? This is Part One of a three-part series (watch for Part Two and Part Three in the coming weeks). Editor’s note:...
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