Beef Initiative Group Canada-Great BIG C !

[rsomer]

Much the same as you guys, calved 130 head will be calving 150 head next year, retain ownership of calves until March but this year they will be sold as finished steers and heifers. Grow all our feed needs and in addition crop 1100 acres Wheat, barley, canola and anything else that might make a buck. I have a number of off farm interests but make my living from the farm. Off farm interests include ag consulting and this year I am proud to be joining the Canadian Forces Reserves as an officer.

[cswilson]

Ohhh I forgot-I ranch 110 miles NE of LLoyminister-Meadow Lake, Sask.-where the pavement ends and the west begins.LOL

[cowman]

Cowman: Down to 96 calves this spring. Have pushed up to close to 180 cows at one time. Rent out my grain land. Grow all my own hay...don't do silage.
Have other business interests, mostly oil and gas related. That is what really pays the bills.
Been here for over 100 years...great granfather bought this land for a song...paid dearly for it in blood, sweat and tears! Dead children...hard times!
Looking forward to taking it easy since the boy came home and I gave it all to him.
Love the land, love the flora and fauna(starting to mean more and more to me everyday!)! Putting in my time and walking the mile until I go home! Becoming a philosopher? in my dottage!!!
Hey good for you rsomer, that reserve thing is just so cool!

[redcountry]

farm on prince edward island .
cow-calf 200 cows, calve 80 spring mar-june 120 fall sept -nov.
sold 75 since may 20 still holding the fall calves to finish.
grow corn for chopped silage, all grass silage bought by acre standing from potatoe farmers, olso barley bought from potatoe farmers.
finish on a mix of grass silage corn silage barley and potatoe culls
member of Atlantic Beef Producers Co-op with a new plant to open sept or oct this year (equipment is being installed now) we are not going to kill cows so still have that problem to deal with!

[Incognito]

Cowman:

"flora and fauna"

You been to Costa Rica?

[cowman]

Icognito: No I haven't. Wanted to go this past winter but had the darned cows to feed and calve and my son was busy as a bee in the oil patch.
What can I say? My momma was a school teacher and occasionally fancy words pop out! But maybe flora and fauna sound better than saying the darned coyotes and weeds? LOL

[cowman]

220 cows in partnership with a nonagricultural partner on some very expensive land (of his) just north of Calgary AB. Mostly purebred Welsh Black and Galloway cows, selling about 25, 2 year old purebred bulls and some breeding females each year. Feed comes from waste Timothy hay from export plant next door. Supplemented with pellets from Calgary and a small silage pit (purchased). Involved in a verticle natural meat marketing program putting our cull steers and heifers into high end restaurants in Calgary.

Very much for avoiding Cargil and Lakeside. They have very simply taken advantage of a devastating problem that their suppliers are facing with no remorse whatsoever. Yes is was handed to them in oversupply and government bungling, but they could have shown a tiny bit of sympathy with some kind of new ideas, but never had. I only wish I knew what they have in mind for the future.

[jensend]

calve out about 190 cows; crop 2500 acres for grains and grow about 75% of our feed requirements. pencil and try to estimate benefits of retained ownership each step of the way. an alberta ex-pat moved to sask 3 years ago. wouldn't go back but sask will have to get into the 21st century sometime in the next couple of decades.

[pandiana]

Calve just under 100 purebred Gelbvieh and small commercial sheep enterprise. Sell about 15 to 20 bulls and replacement females. Lambs are sold farm direct as well as rail grade. Chronically short of feed and land but reluctant to spend more to make less. Will cut back on all fronts if given a chance because I see little future in making money in agriculture. Love my cows and sheep and the life, but tired of subsidizing an industry that is undervalued and underappreciated.

[cswilson]

jensend what part of sask. did u move to-and we's in the footur gots the power,the oily roads jist lik alburta do plus weez got da casinos lol.

[jensend]

cswilson - we're just nw of ft. qu'appelle. took the course from your neighbour this past winter.

[cswilson]

Ohh your up in that Lipton country I'm guessing-I ran yearlings down there in one of our many droughts. How did you like the course.