Beef Initiative Group Canada-Great BIG C !

[jensend]

liked the course. have some accounting in my resume so it gave a look from a different angle but it was useful. my 13 year old son should take it; it would make good sense to him too. we're about 15 mi. w of lipton. sw of sysart, se of cupar. good cropland on our west and good cowland to the east.

[grassfarmer]

Am building up a cowherd at the same time as improving a farm (difficult given the drought having started with a very run down place in 2001)Calving 125 cows this year. Establishing a Purebred Luing herd from pedigree and grade up bloodlines. Was intending to max out on cow numbers and sell preconditioned calves in December. Am now experimenting with selling grass fed beef direct to customers and may move to a smaller cowherd, sell breeding females and bulls and fatten steers for a more rounded operation. Run cows on a management intensive grazing system with all feed bought in - much of it cereal byproducts from the ajoining Hutterite colony. Eventually aiming for 8 months grazing and 4 months feeding which I think is feasable.

[blackjack]

in a family farm business that runs approximately 900 cows and backgrounds around 1500 head . Usually sell as yearlings at approximately 900 lbs. Raise all our own silage and hay and buy the grain and straw.