What's New in Livestock

Table of Contents

1. Swine
2. Dairy
3. Poultry
4. Beef
5. Agriculture Development Branch

Swine

Swine Budgets provide the estimated accumulated cost for a market hog sold during the month of April and May 2008.

Dairy

Commercial colostrum replacers can reduce disease transmission, but what about their long-term effect on productivity? Colostrum Conundrum helps to answer this question.

Poultry

The SECONOV system dries manure so that the manure's fertilizing value is preserved and in a way that can be adapted to the practices and systems already in place on the farm. Want to know more? Read up at Novel Approaches to Manure Management!

Beef

Summer 2008 edition of OMAFRA Virtual Beef covers a variety of topics. You can read about:

Feedig Tips For Tough Times offers some tips to help you get the best value out of your feeding program in a time of high cattle feeding costs.

Propionic acid can be used as a dry hay preservative to prevent mould when baling hay at moistures that would otherwise be too high. Read more at Preventing Mouldy Hay Using Propionic Acid.

For information on federal and provincial regulations regarding the labelling of meat products, check out Labelling Requirements for Meat Products.

A Cow-Calf Benchmarking study is being done by OMAFRA and the Food, Agriculture and Resource Economics Department at the University of Guelph in an attempt to get answers regarding why some farms are more profitable than others. Want to get in on the secrets? Then take a look at Cow-Calf Benchmarking!

You can also check out OMAFRA Virtual Beef for current and previous issues of the quarterly produced collections of research findings and results, recommended production practices and solutions to industry issues.

Agriculture Development Branch

The Agriculture Development Branch Staff Directory provides a list of the members of the staff as well as contact and position information.

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