Spring Runoff
Water, water, everywhere. Living in the semi-arid prairie we always appreciate water, whatever form it comes in and how inconvenient it may be. Last weekend we received about 10 inches of […]
A Producer’s Perspective
Our very own Sherri Grant provided a webinar with Prairie Conservation Action Plan today. Check it out (Skip to 8:00 to avoid the technical glitches ;). Also Check out the […]
Ecological Goods in Saskatchewan
The Saskatchewan Prairie Conservation Action Plan is hosting an Ecological Goods & Services week March 12-18th. Ranchers, environmentalists, economists, researchers and academics will all come together to talk about the benefits of […]
Conferences, Connections & Cutting Edge Solutions
January and February tend to be conference season for producers, we call it the slower time on the farm but there to be so many things going on that isn’t really the […]
Things Happen
Our heifers are scheduled to start calving about April 10th and the cows April 20th. At the end of February we were not expecting to see calves while feeding. But […]
Snow, snow and more snow
Our snow was almost all gone but Saturday night (February 4) it started to drift down again and continued all day Sunday and into Monday. Light fluffy snow with a […]
Honoring where we come from and teaching the next generations
Many have learnt their skills from their parents. In agriculture, this is particularly true as we learn to observe the land and animals for signs of health. This tends to […]
The Routine of Winter
Daylight hours are short. But once the sun is up enough to see, someone is out checking the hospital pen. This is a pen where chronics and poor doing calves […]
The lull of winter
As things slow down in the winter months and daylight hours are short we turn our attention to hauling grain. All the work from summer (seeding, growing, spraying, harvest) is […]
Tub Grinding
Once upon a time, we used bale feeders, or a combination of bale feeders and tub grinding. Basically everything for the calves in the backgrounding lot now have hay and greenfeed […]
