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Monthly Archives: October 2016

Building Soil with Forages in Rotation

October 26, 2016by Grant Ranch Leave a comment

We include forages in our rotation. In late September we disced perennial grass fields to put back into annual crops. We will seed other fields into alfalfa grass mixtures for hay […]

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Weaning calves for maximum health

October 23, 2016by Grant Ranch 1 Comment

We are weaning calves from the mother cows. We want to do this before there is snow on the ground (or at least snow that stays as it has all melted […]

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Feedlot Facelift

October 19, 2016by Grant Ranch Leave a comment

New bunks have arrived! In a couple of weeks the calves will be weaned and will be moved into the backgrounding lot. So we are getting everything ready for them. […]

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Cattle

Who gets to stay? Preg-checking heifers

October 16, 2016by Grant Ranch 1 Comment

We have been working between rain showers. As the veterinarian was scheduled in advance we didn’t have a choice on the weather but it turned out to be a really […]

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Cattle

Yearlings take a walk

October 12, 2016by Grant Ranch Leave a comment

On Monday we brought in about 380 yearlings for shipping. We moved them from a nearby pasture to our feedlot in the yard. In the three or so miles to […]

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Healthy Soil – Healthy Crop

October 9, 2016by Grant Ranch Leave a comment

Every crop uses a different amount of nutrients: nitrogen, potassium, phosphorus, sulphur. As crops are combined and sent to the cities around the world to feed people, these nutrients are […]

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Management

Rain, Rain, Rain and now Snow

October 5, 2016by Grant Ranch 1 Comment

It has been a difficult harvest for many. We have been blessed in that we finished harvest early; but we have neighbours and others across the province who are still […]

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Bull power and the end of the breeding season

October 3, 2016by Grant Ranch 1 Comment

Bulls have a job for only 9 weeks of the year. We turned out the bulls for the breeding season in late July and picked them up yesterday after three […]

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