Founded in 2014, the Canadian Roundtable for Sustainable Beef (CRSB) market it’s 10-year anniversary in 2024, celebrating many important milestones over its first decade. The CRSB’s collaborative approach is a model followed by others and has helped to establish our Canadian beef sector as a leader in sustainability. The launch of the 2024 National Beef…

For more than a century, irrigation and water management have supported agriculture and the ecology of Alberta’s semi-arid south. However, recurring droughts and minimal snowpack in recent years have strained the system, highlighting vulnerabilities in our water management strategies. In 2024, Alberta’s Minister of Environment and Protected Areas (EPA), Rebecca Schulz, collaborated with major water…

RDAR, a leader driver of results-driven agriculture research, Alberta Beef Producers (ABP), and the Beef Cattle Research Council (BCRC), are announcing that over $6 million has been committed to a series of projects that will advance beef research in Canada’s largest beef producing province. Funding in part has been provided by federal and provincial governments…

What happens when the temperature swings from -30°C to +5°C in just a few days? For cattle producers, these rapid fluctuations need to be managed to mitigate the risks to herd health, nutrition, and overall performance. In the newest episode of The Bovine, Kara Mastel sits down with Dr. Brittany Smith, Consulting Ruminant Nutritionist with…

The beef business is facing some incredible opportunities. If you want to be in cattle and want to work, it’s a good place to be. But at the same time, that is also bringing change. As an industry, we need to be okay with that. Everything in this world changes, whether we like it or…