Insights and Stories on Livestock

Colic in beef calves can hint at serious problems

Apr. 4, 2025 at 9:43 am CDT

Glacier FarmMedia – When people think of colic, they usually think of a human infant who is fussy and crying. But colic occurs in animals, as well. Horse owners are often well versed in colic, as it is a fairly common occurrence in equines. In the beef cattle world, colic can […]

U.S. livestock: Cattle, hogs lower on Monday

Mar. 31, 2025 at 3:04 pm CDT

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

CATTLEytics creates artificial intelligence system to write dairy protocols

Mar. 28, 2025 at 10:57 am CDT

By John Greig

cattle and a barbed wire fence at sunset

How barbed wire transformed ranching in the West

Jan. 24, 2025 at 9:42 am CST

By Dr. Ron Clarke

Study indicates happy pigs are more productive

Dec. 23, 2024 at 10:11 am CST

By Janelle Rudolph

An inspector looking at sides of beef, which are hanging in a cooler.

Data sharing next big step for beef genetics

Dec. 20, 2024 at 10:13 am CST

Glacier FarmMedia – Data access is vital to success in most businesses these days, and that includes cattle genetics, according to panel members at the Canadian Beef Industry Conference in Saskatoon in August. “I believe genetics can be the motivator that drives success in the beef industry in the next […]

By Melissa Jeffers-Bezan

Computer vision system weighs pigs without a scale

Nov. 29, 2024 at 10:40 am CST

Glacier FarmMedia – The three metal-framed stations in the pig barn conjure the image of a starting gate at the Kentucky Derby. A pen opens. For a minute, the air is full of galloping hoofs and excited grunts. Twenty pigs run through three short aisles equipped with lights and cameras, […]

By Geralyn Wichers

Serotonin may be key to solving pneumonia puzzle in cattle

Nov. 22, 2024 at 9:37 am CST

Glacier FarmMedia – Pen riders move through the feedlot corrals on horseback, watching the cattle with a sharp eye. They are looking for illness, weaving through the herd day after day. They hear the animal with atypical interstitial pneumonia (AIP) before they see it. There’s a rattle in the heifer’s […]

By Melissa Jeffers-Bezan

Manitoba trials address livestock predation in farmyards

Oct. 25, 2024 at 9:38 am CDT

Manitoba’s Livestock Predation Prevention pilot continued its 2020-23 assessment of various predation risk mitigation practices focused on cattle and sheep populations in and around farmyards. More than 100 total trials were completed on 48 farms during the three-year project with approximately 75 per cent of the costs covered by the project. Predator-resistant penning […]

By Bruce Derksen

Succession plan drives dairy farm’s journey into poultry

Oct. 18, 2024 at 10:09 am CDT

Glacier FarmMedia – The big new red barn at Rickeen Farms will house feathered livestock instead of the farms’ traditional four-legged ruminants. “Our passion is in the dairy industry, but we just can’t grow that the way we want to right now,” said Brett Shantz. “So, we’re diversifying.” Shantz, his […]

By Diana Martin

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