Animal Science SMF Mid-term Presentation Booklet

Dairy Unit

Mid-Year Presentation 2022-23

2022-2023 Dairy Unit Members

General Manager

Hoof Health Coordinator

Reinier van der Steege Finance Coordinators

Scott Standeaven

Colin Balme

Koen Baerends

Herd Health Co coordinators

Kyle van Dijk Alies Huizing

Reproduction (Breeding) Coordinators

Phillip Reutter

Naomi Hegg

Transition Cow Co-coordinators

Lukas Ijzerman Madison Pirch

Close up Dry and Lactating Feed Management Coordinator

Andrew Mason

Reproduction (Genetics) Coordinator Emily Ward

Heifer and Far off Dry Feed Management, Range & Forage Coordinator

Jesse Bloom

Calf Feed Management Coordinator Arpan Redhu

Public Relations Coordinator

Tara Kroeker

Mixed Farm Coordinator Hunter Tataryn Technology Coordinator (Parlour, VMS and Herd Navigator) Chloe Knorr

Research Coordinator

Technology Coordinator (Feeding, ventilation and manure systems) Brie Corley

Simone Husiman Data Analyst Coordinator Keith Wuerstl

Calf Health Coordinator Manpreet Singh Sandhu

Records & Secretary

Fatima Akther

SMF Advisors

Jolet van Niekerk

Amber Sayers

Production Coordinator Onkar Singh LNU

Udder Health Coordinator Sam Cuff

Farm Team

Amber Sayers Dairy Barn Manager

Tiffany Belbeck Dairy Herdsperson

Madison Smith Dairy Herdsperson

Frederike de Putter Dairy Herdsperson

Strengths

Strong, diversified team

SWOT Analysis

Weaknesses

Conception rate/heat detection in our cows

Conception rate/heat detection in heifers High student turnover Resource availability within unit Communication

Technology for learning opportunities Location

Opportunities

Threats

New dry cow facility Biosecurity

New milk quality guidelines Inflation

Genetic improvement Activism

New community and industry involvement Dairy barn consistency

Nutrition

Far Off Dry Cow Ration Cost per unit ($/kg)

As fed (kg)

Corn Silage $0.09 15.42

Barley Silage $0.10 3.62 Maire Hay 2021 $0 14 6.80 Canola Meal $0.61 1.80

NSI Fortifier $0.25 0.15

Ration Cost: $4.01/head/day

Pregnant Heifer Ration Cost per unit ($/kg)

As fed (kg)

Corn Silage $0.09 8.61

Barley Silage $0.10 7.25

Maire Hay 2021 $0 14 4.53

Canola Meal $0.61 0.68

NSI Fortifier $0.25 0.10 Limestone $0.13 0.095

Ration Cost: $2.08/head/day

Nutrition

Heifer Ration

Heifer TMR (Corn Silage, Barley Silage, Maire Hay)

Cost per unit ($/kg)

As fed (kg)

$0.11 10.71

Barley Grain $0.39 9.375 Canola Meal $0.61 0.45 NSI Fortifier $0.25 0.049 Limestone $0.13 0.022 Ration Cost: $1.50/head/day

Close-Up Dry Cow Ration

Cost per unit ($/kg)

As fed (kg)

Corn Silage $0.09 11.00 Wheat Straw $0.07 4.00 Close Up Dry Cow Mash $0.90 5.25 Water $0.003 5.00 Ration Cost: $6.01/head/day

Lactating Cow Ration

Cost per unit ($/kg)

As fed (kg)

Corn Silage $0.09 19.00 Barley/Hay Mix $0.25 13.00 Wheat Straw $0.07 3.00 Lactating Cow Mash $0.72 10.00 Water $0.003 9.00 Ration Cost: $12 40/head/day

Definitions

A.F: As fed

ADG: Average daily gain

BF: Butterfat component in milk

BCS: Body condition score

Calf: Bovine that is newborn to 3 months of age

Conception Rate: Cows confirmed pregnant out of total cows bred

Culls: Animals that will be leaving/left the herd

Dry Cow: Cow that is not producing milk

Elevate: Genomic testing program

Follicular Cyst: develops from a dominant follicle in the absence of ovulation

Fresh Cow: Bovine that has calved up to 21 days after calving

Heifer: Bovine that is 3 months to 12 months of age

Heat Detection Rate: Number of cows bred out of total cow eligible

Ketosis: Metabolic disease that occurs during the transition phase

KPI: Key performance indicator

Luteal Cyst: When a corpus luteum does not disappear following the release of an ovum

Milk Fever: Metabolic disorder caused by insufficient calcium

Milk Deductions: Cost associated with milk sales

Peak Milk: Amount of milk produced per day at the highest point in a cows lactation

PMR: Partial mixed ration

Retained Placenta: Retention of fetal membranes that cause infection after calving

SMF: Student Managed Farm

Silage: Fermented feed

SCC: Somatic cell count

TMR: Total mixed ration

VMS: Voluntary milking system

Voluntary Waiting Period: Time before a cow is eligible to be bred

YTD: Year to date

Finance

Budget Verses Year to Date

November 1st, 2022

Income Budget 2022 2023 YTD October 31st % Utilized

Milk sales $1,268,670.91 $817,646.74 64%

Cull Cow Sales $40,347.61 $35,919.61 89% Calf Sales $7,306.41 $4,565.00 62% Heifer Sales $2,000.00 $0 0% DDPP* $31,568.09 $0 0% Miscellaneous $1,500.00 $873.50 58%

Total Income $1,351,393.02 $859,004.85 64%

Expenses Budget 2022 2023 YTD October 31st % Utilized Health $46,189.40 $26,242.17 57%

Feed and Nutrition $751,000.00 $512,460.35 68% Hoof Care $14,465.60 $10,305.22 71% Chemicals & Cleaners $7,000.32 $13,628.13 $195% Repairs & Supplies $100,679.21 $60,387.84 60% Records $15,991.80 $4,371.65 27% Range & Forage $2,104.82 $0 0% Westerner $2,591.39 $0 0% Reproduction $25,890.61 $7,160.89 28% Bedding $36,154.29 $12,310.00 34% Milk Deductions $95,601.28 $62,064.63 65% Manure Handling $58,461.11 $28,742.00 49% Miscellaneous $4,500.00 $3,199.54 71% Utilities $22,330.44 $0 0% Labour ** $150,000.00 $19,930.30 13% Total Expenses $1,332,960.27 $760,622.72 57% Net Profit $18,432.75 $98,382.13

*Dairy Direct Payment Program. Government compensation for markets lost due to Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) and the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans pacific Partnership (CPTPP). **Labour will be assigned for the final presentation using industry averages from the Alberta Dairy Cost Study. Labour is difficult to measure accurately because there are many students working in the barn.

Mixed Farm – Manure

Years 2021 Solid 2021 Liquid Spring Fall Spring Fall Fields

LC 1/3 636MT May 2021

LC 11 304MT May 2021

LC 12 4000gal/ac Nov 2021

LC 14 4000gal/ac Apr 2021

LC 15 3000gal/ac Apr 2021

LC 16 4000gal/ac Apr 2021

LC 20 1128MT May 2021

LCP 21 792MT May 2021

AL 01 4000gal/ac Nov 2021

Thank You

Jolet van Niekerk

Carmen Zayac New Holland Agriculture

Amber Sayers Austin Partington Holstein Canada

Tiffany Belbeck Bevin Hamilton Alberta Milk Madison Smith Nadine Farkash NutriSource

Frederike de Putter Gerald Hauer MS Schippers Geoff Brown Marisa Schuebel Lactanet

Kris (Leroy) Lehmann Matt Rustemeier Crestomere Holsteins Farm Team Ron Hoffman Mosnang Holsteins Facilities Team Groovin’ Gord WestGen

Janet Kerr Dairy Lane Systems BC Holstein News

Tracey Quinton Silverfern Hoof Trimming Pro Line Manufacturing Amy Stanley Denise Martin Penner Farm Service (Lely) Lakeland College Marketing Team Agrai Dairy Mart (Delaval)

Commercial Beef Unit

Mid year Presentations

Herbet Wegner

Drake Rennie

Jolee Shand

General Manager

Marketing Analyst

Reproduction Coordinator

Kaitlyn Carrier Public Relations Coordinator

Nikolas Lamont Mixed Farm Coordinator

Avery Lacusta

Risk Management Coordinator

Mara Reimer Nutrition Coordinator

Reid Regehr Nutrition Coordinator

Alexander Kummer Round Up Coordinator

Grace Christensen

Finacial Coordinator

Cody Tataryn Range and Forage Coordinator

Brooke Van De Voorde Team Secretary

Hayden Ludlage Treatments Coordinator

Reese Harsany Health Coordinator

Zane King Research Coordinator

Rayleen Lundquist

Records and Reporting/Herdtrax

Nakysta Van Hacke Records and Reporting/Herdtrax

Austin Avramenko

Facilities Coordinator

Bevin Hamilton Faculty Advisor

Kyle Hafner

Farm Team Advisor

The 2022 2023 Commercial Beef Unit is in its 11th year as a part of the Student Managed Farm. Our team consists of 18 members, spanning all the way from Ontario to Alberta. Our team has been working hard from the start and thoroughly enjoyed this time together!

Mission Statement

“Striving to raise quality beef through educational opportunities and hands on experience, while creating relationships within industry”

SWOT Analysis

Team size

Strength Weakness

Wide range of experience and knowledge

Ability to complete tasks

Opportunities

Pasture location

Lakeland Round Up sale

Hands on learning

Communication within the team

Competition of resources

Economies of scale within our herd

Threats

Inflation

Public perspective

Feed shortage

Goals

Long term: Increase followers on social media platforms

Improve the herd performance Ensure cattle have adequate pasture for next year

Short term: Sell the heifers for a higher price at Agribition

Create expectations for a new bull by end of December

Improve our knowledge of our herd

2022/2023 Previous Commercial Units Recommendations

These are the previous recommendations that are most relevant to our team and the ones that we have already accomplished or are working towards accomplishing.

o Go to Agribition o Sell cull bulls in fall o Continue discussion posts on Facebook o Look into bringing horses to round up in fall o Visit herd before bringing cows home o Explore private sales of calves before sending to market o Weigh heifers every other week to ensure proper gains o Utilize Herdtrax to the fullest and input all treatment and vaccinations o Post on Facebook every week o Team bonding every 2 weeks

GOLD MEASURES

Weaning weight over 5 years

Commercial Team to Agribition

These heifers are for sale at Agribition on December 3, 2022. If you are interested or have any questions, please feel free to contact our Facebook page and we will get back to you!

Heifer Tag Number Birth date Birth weight Weaning weight October 19 weight

129 K

108 K

105 K

January 22, 2022. 78 lbs 672 lbs 724 lbs

January 13, 2022. 72 lbs 690 lbs 752 lbs

January 12, 2022. 70 lbs 682 lbs 764 lbs

April 1st, 2022 – November 1st, 2022

Thank You everyone who has helped us this semester

New Holland Agriculture

Karlin Rennie

Bevin Hamilton

AlFlex Tags

Geoff Brown Shane Adamson (JGL)

Grace Dolman Austin Partington

Everest Trucking Amy Stanley

Vermilion Vet Clinic Nadine Farkash

Lakeland College Marketing Team Justin Kane

Carson Sidener Tracy Quinton

Jim Pulyk Janet Kerr

Lakeland College Bookstore Carmen Zayac

North Central Livestock Ag Faculty

Northern Livestock Sales Trisha Mechor

Devyn Inch Denise Martin

Dr. Tim Goodbrand Sharon Reiter

Kris (Leroy) Lehmann

More Than Just Feed

Canadian Western Agribition

Ryley Noble

Farm Team Lindsey Everest

Kyle Hafner

Other SMF units

Bison SMF Unit

Our Team and Positions

• Ashlee Laing Secretary, Finance Coordinator, Marketing Coordinator

• Bailey Ferguson Leader, SOP Coordinator, Public Relations

• Benjamin Schmalzbauer Range and Forage Coordinator, Nutrition Coordinator, Research Coordinator

• Bryson Andres- Facilities Coordinator, Record Keeper, Data Coordinator

• Michael Pyra Herd Health Coordinator, Reproduction Coordinator, Animal Care Coordinator

• Gerald Hauer Staff Adviser

Mission Statement

"Our unit strives to sustainably raise a high quality bison cow calf herd in an extensive, low stress and healthy environment. We acknowledge the cultural significance of the bison to the First Nations, Métis, and Inuit groups. We plan to contribute data and knowledge through research and education while promoting the industry and species conservation."

Short Term Goals

• Prepare for the transition to the college owning its own land and facilities for the bison herd

• Expand our network within the bison industry

• Establish a strong foundation for the future SMF students

Long Term Goals

• To run a successful and profitable bison operation

• Establish our herd criteria

• Develop and utilize a proper applied research program for our unit

• Maintain/Increase our unit size

Nutrition

• Last year our herd were custom fed at Pilatus Ranches and Bar J.L.

o We did not receive a breakdown of the ration from Pilatus Ranches, but the herd was fed a standard feed ration

o The herd at Bar J.L. Enterprises received

• Straw with Mol Mix molasses

• High Density Pellet

• Free Choice Mineral

• This year we plan to bale graze with the cheapest/lowest quality feed first as this is when the animal's nutrition requirements go down due to seasonality, and we will be saving our better feed until the end of winter when their nutrient requirements rise due to gestation and the end of their seasonality period

• We are using the Cowbytes program to figure out our cheapest feed plan while keeping a balanced diet

• We have been communicating with Murray Feist, he helped us make the best balanced and cost efficient feed plan with the resources you have

• We made 3 different rations based on feed available

o Wheat Straw at $2.07/hd/day

o Barley Green Feed at $1.88/hd/day

o Grass/Alfalfa Hay Mix at 2.79/hd/day

Health and Wellness

• Due to dystocia, we lost one of our cows this summer

• For our vaccination plan we will be vaccinating our animals with Ultrabac 7 and using Ivermectin for deworming

• We have been talking to Dr. Goodbrand from the Vermilion Vet Clinic in order to create the best vaccine plan for our herd

Range and Forage

• Last year our herd was custom grazed at a average cost of $1.55/hd/day and were grazed from early June until early November

• This Year we are planning on using a rotational grazing plan from mid May to mid October at a estimated cost $1.60/hd/day

• We want to improve our grazing system by managing the soil, the plants, and the animals.

Finances

Facilities

• We loosely based our facility off Irish Creek. We took a plain system, and made some changes, such as animal flow and educational features

• For animal flow we took out 90 degree corners

• For education we added two buildings that students could observe bison handling from without affecting the bison's behaviour

Reproduction

• We plan to preg check our animals during weaning in order to minimize stress from handling

• We are currently developing a calving plan for our herd

• The conception rate for our herd at Pilatus Ranches was 92%

• The conception rate for our herd in Bar J.L. Enterprises was 93.8%

Mineral Demonstration

• We are planning on doing a mineral preference demonstration and will be performing a survey within the industry to see what other producers are using

• We will take the answers from our survey into consideration when deciding which minerals we will be selecting

• Our demonstration will be performed from January until March

Weaning Plan

• This year we will be weaning our calves in early January and will be selling them in February as it is the month with the highest average price

• When weaning our herd at Pilatus Ranches, we will wean our calves onto the truck for sale and trucking the cows to Bar J.L. Enterprises for processing

• For our herd at Bar J.L. Enterprises, we will be hard weaning our calves and preconditioning them until we sell in February

Marketing

Public Relations

Facebook

From September 16, 2022, to November 16, 2022, our Facebook page has gained:

• 73 followers

• 18 posts

• 218 reactions on our page

• 559 reactions on shared posts

@Lakeland College SMF Bison Unit

Instagram

From October 8, 2022, to November 16, 2022, our Instagram page has gained:

• 82 followers

• 13 posts

• 334 Likes

@lakeland_smf_bison

Thank You!

• Armin and Rita Mueller and family

• Bar J.L. Enterprises

• Pilatus Ranches

• New Holland Agriculture

• Gerald Hauer

• Marisa Schuebel

• Nadine Farkash

• Tracy Quinton

• Kris (Leroy) Lehmann

• Farm Team

• Janet Kerr

• Bevin Hamilton

• Geoff Brown

• Denise Martin

• Trisha Mechor

• Dr. Goodbrand and the Vermilion Veterinary Clinic

• Jack Auction Group

• Murray Feist

• Irish Creek Bison

• Liberty Run Ranch

• Canadian Bison Association

The Team

Makenna Martin General Manager, Marketing and SOP Coordinator

Pyper Snow Finance Coordinator and Secretary

Brant Bannerman Records, Data and Mixed Farm Coordinator

Faith Peet Animal Care and Health Coordinator

Josh Lehman Research Liaison, Risk Management and Facilities Coordinator

Owen Kominko Nutrition Coordinator

Christina Devos Range and Forage Coordinator

Breanna Hill Public Relations and Reproduction Coordinator

Marisa Schuebel Faculty Advisor

About Our Team

The 2022 2023 extensive grazing research unit consists of eight students from Manitoba, Alberta, and Saskatchewan. We work towards maintaining a sustainable and economically viable, extensive herd while exploring various cattle management practices and collaborating and assisting with the Lakeland College Research department on demos and trials. Our herd management vision for our unit is to achieve maximum grazing time while remaining extensive and low maintenance in our management while continuing to build a strong maternal cow herd that contains a large amount of background, performance and breed composition data.

Recommendations From Last Year

• Purchase new Angus bull

• Begin planning demo in first semester

• Sell animals in the Round Up Sale

• Bring more awareness to the value of RFI data on breeding stock

• Increase involvement with Research Department

• Explore crop stubble and residue grazing options for fall grazing

Goals for the Semester

• Create a Fall Rye proposal by the end of the semester

• Have a cohesive team

• Graze LC 2 Corn before Christmas break

• LC 6 involvement with the School of Environmental Sciences

SWOT Analysis Strengths

• Diverse and strong team

• Elite and low maintenance cow herd

• Willingness to learn

Weaknesses

• Time Management • Lack of public exposure • Cow to pasture ratio

Opportunities Threats

• Hands on learning

• RFI trial with Dr. Susan Markus

• Swath grazing trial

• LC 6 involvement with the School of Environmental Sciences

KPI’s

• Feed prices • No fall moisture • Low Corn yield on LC 2

GOLD Growth of Calves Open Rate Length of Calving Season Death Loss

Industry Standard 43% of Dam weight at 205 days

Our Herd 40% of dam weight at 182 days

Inventory

4% 63 Days 4%

To Be determined 81 Days 0% calf death loss as of now

Heifers: 16 head Calves: 31 Steer calves 33 Heifer calves

Cows: 63 head 1 Holstein cow owned by dairy unit

Bulls: 2 Hereford bulls

Nutrition

This year our unit was able to graze up until November 7th, 2022. Being that we were able to graze until that date we have used minimum amounts of feed. We have only had to supplement 4 barley green feed bales on September 27th while grazing on LCP 24. While on pasture we were giving a Pasture Mix Mineral of 13 5 2 with Garlic salt as well.

We are now currently feeding 2 hay and 1 barley green feed bales that have been put through the shredder to reduce wastage with the same 13 5 2 Mineral.

Range and Forage

Total grazing costs $18, 289.35

Total grazing days

• 155 days Pasture

• 34 days After math grazing

Reproduction

Sires of this year's calf crop

# of Calves % of Herd

LFE BA Lewis 3005D (Black Angus) 21 32.8%

Allandale Pedigree 50G (Black Angus) 17 26.6%

Miles Mckee 6060D (Hereford) 18 28.1%

This chart shows the sires of our calf crop this year. Based on this data, we can gain insight into our breed composition. This shows that 59.4% of our calf crop is sired by an Angus bull, and 28.1% of our calf crop is sired by our Herford bull. The reason these numbers do not add up to 100% is because we are still waiting on DNA for 3 calves. We also have 5 calves with an unknown sire, this is believed to be the neighbors bull who jumped the fence

Marketing

Our unit decided to retain our calves until January or later, based upon the breakeven analysis that our breakeven committee performed on projected market prices for November, January and March. Selling our calves at a later point in the year when our calves are heavier allows us to make a slightly larger profit than selling earlier in the year at a lighter weight. November

Vaccinations

• June 27th: heifers received Bovi Shield Gold FP 5 and Ultrabac 7/ Somubac

• July 13th: cows received Bovi Shield Gold FP 5 and Ultrabac 7/ Somubac, calves received Bovi Shield Gold One Shot, and steer calves also got Ralgro implants

Treatments

• Cow died over the summer due to unknown causes

• Treated two calves, one for an ear infection with Oxyvet and one for pneumonia with Resflor

• Treated heifer for pneumonia with Resflor, she also needed to be retreated

These graphs show our Facebook likes and reach in the past 90 days. We have had 36 new page likes, which is up 800% then the previous 90 days. We have reached 5,832 people which is up 928% then the previous 90 days

Thank you!

Marisa Schuebel

Kyle Hafner

Kris (Leroy) Lehmann

New Holland Agriculture

Brown

Vandenburg

Markus

Durunna

Farm Staff

Warrilow

Martin

Other SMF units

Equine Unit Midyear Presentations 2022/23

Our Team

Faculty Advisor Ron Hoffman

Faculty Advisor Matt Rustemeier

Equine Technician Bailey Hlus

General Manager Scott Lane

Public Relations Ainsley Zayac & Cicely Switzer

Finance Mikaela Postma

Round Up Ty Mitchell & Jordan Elgersma

Feed Management Madalyn Fraser

Health Courtney Hansen

Mixed Farm Emma Jean Purvis

Stable Management Avery Schneider Range and Forage Hayley Schmidt

SOP’s Nicole Runge

AQHA Records and Reproduction Sarah Folland

Secretary Shaylene Earl

Herd Inventory

Our Vision

Our vision is to produce, select and train quality quarter horses with excellent disposition and conformation in an economically sustainable format

SWOT Analysis

Goals

Recommendations from Last Year

• Explore a different marketing channel for the yearlings

• Reduce breeding cost by purchasing a stallion

• Leave a timeline for next year’s team

Progress Report

• Explored other marketing strategies for weanlings

• No stud purchased

• Began working on timeline

Budget vs. Year to Date

Broodmare Breakeven

The Broodmare break even is calculated by adding breeding, feed, health, and all other production costs. This year the breakeven is very high because all the costs to breed 7 mares must be covered by only 2 foals. The breakeven cost per foal is $6,459.00 Broodmare/Foal Breakeven Price $6,459.00

Breakeven on

Whole Oats

3lbs $0.13/lb $0.40/head/day Milled Flax 8oz $0.12/oz $0.96/head/day

Prostock Equine Minerals 3oz $0.06/oz $0.18/head/day Flaxseed Oil 75mL (3 pumps) $0.00825/mL $0.62/head/day

Whole Oats 3lbs $0.13/lb $0.40/head/day

Soybean Meal 2lbs $0.68/lb $1.36/head/day

Trace Mineral Free Choice $14.49/block $0.06/head/day Flax Seed Oil 75mL (3 pumps) $0.00825/mL $0.62/head/day

Total Ration Cost = $2.44/head/day

Range & Forage

• LC 11 was acquired for use by the equine unit to decrease grazing costs.

• There were 9 geldings grazing on LC11 for a total cost of $685.44.

• There were 6 broodmares that came back from where they were being bred and were put onto LC11 for a total grazing cost of $421.26.

• The total grazing cost for the geldings and broodmares on LC11 is $1,106.70.

• We are exploring renting new pasture for the mares this summer for grazing.

Vaccinations

Thank You for Your Support!

• New Holland Agriculture

• Ron Hoffman

• Matt Rustemeier

• Geoff Brown

• Tracy Quinton

• Denise Martin

• Bailey Hlus & Farm Team

• Kris Lehmann

• Miller Quarter Horses

• Shady Willows Ranch

• Griffith Ranch

• Myterra Ranch

• East and West Ranching Company

• Clark Performance Horses

• Justin Potts

• Delaney Veterinary Services

• Weir Veterinary Services

• Vermilion Veterinary Services

• Bevin Hamilton

• Amy Stanley

• Carmen Zayac

• Janet Kerr

• Austin Partington

• Amber Sayers

• Nadine Farkash

Purebred Beef Unit

2022 Mid-Year Presentation

Team Members and Positions

Gabrielle Cheremshynski Purebred SMF Unit General Manager

Elizabeth Lockhurst Public Relations Coordinator

Annelies Valstar Genetics Coordinator, Industry Contact Coordinator

Bailee Richardson Health and Treatment Coordinator

Carter Wood Marketing and Round Up Coordinator

Graham Barth Finance Coordinator

Jaden Rigney Genetics Coordinator, Industry Contact Coordinator

Kyleigh Magotiaux Range and Forage Coordinator, Show Team Coordinator

Lexus Brietzke Nutrition Coordinator, Records Coordinator

Novalee Pender Health and Treatment Coordinator

Rylee Martin Nutrition Coordinator, Records Coordinator

Victoria White Mixed Farm Coordinator, Show Team Coordinator

William Bradford Marketing Coordinator, Round Up Coordinator

Herd Vision

Team Goals

Long

are 54%, heifers are 49% of dams weight.

Industry standard is 43% of dams weight at weaning.

year average is bulls 714lbs and heifers 660lbs

were put out April 6, 2022, and were pulled June 8th, 2022

Weaning:

Decided to quiet wean for our show calves  While hard weaning the rest of our herd  Nose flaps were put in on September 14th and came out on the 20th

We chose to quiet wean our show calves to reduce stress while we are working closely with the string. The decision to hard wean the rest was based on; time, pasture availability and cost reduction.

Show Coordinators

Lloydminster Stockade Roundup

Mature cow calf pair:  OAV CLASSY 42D & OAV CLASSY 6K

Bred heifer:  OAV OLIVIA JANE 6J

Heifer calf:  OAV ATLANTA 16K

Nutrition

Terminology

Term Meaning

AVD

DMI %

TDN %

Average daily gain

Dry matter contains in rations as a %

Total digestible nutrients (energy)

NEm Energy of maintenance

Neg Energy of gain

Ca:P

DMI% of BW

Calcium to phosphorus ratio

Dry matter as a % of body weight

Show String Feed Costs

Ingredients

Cost

Beet Pulp (17 bags) $356.83 Barley Grain (2 tonnes) $784.00 14% Creep Protein (2 tonnes) $1,643.96 Total: $2,784.79

Bull Ration

Ingredients Lbs as fed/ Head/ Day

Alfalfa Grass Hay 9.0 Barley Silage 15.0 Barley Grain 7.0 36:20 Beef Supplement 0.5 Total 31.5

Bull

Heifer Ration

Ingredients Lbs as Fed/head/day

Alfalfa Grass Hay 7.5 Corn Silage 8.0 2020 Barley Straw 4.0 Barley Grain 2.5 36:20 Beef Supplement 0.5 Total: 22.5

Range

and Forage

Total Grazing Cost: $10,244.27

Budgeted Grazing Cost: $11,884

Under Budget by $1,639.73

Public

Genetics

2022 Calving Season

 9% of calves born were conceived through embryo transplant

o The following embryo calves were born: ▪ Red Lazy MC Slash 105E X Red Lazy MC Pepper 128B ▪ Schiefelbein Showman 338 X HF Echo 111Y ▪ S Titlest 1145 X OAV Classy 4Z

 38% of our calves were sired through artificial insemination o The following sires were used in our AI program: ▪ SAV One Nation 9558 ▪ SAV Renovation 6822 ▪ Brooking Firebrand 6068 ▪ Bruin Torque 5261 ▪ Crawford Guarantee 9137 ▪ HF Prowler 43U ▪ Red DKF Racer 8E

 53% of the calves born were conceived through natural service o The following walking bulls were used: ▪ U2 Uncut 70F ▪ Remitall Lawton 3H

Thank you to the following donors for their support in our program!

 Lazy MC Angus  Shaft Valley Angus

New Holland Agriculture

Geoff Brown

Austin Partington

Kris (Leroy) Lehmann

Kyle Hafner

Justin Kane

Jayden Cramer

April Warrilow

Jo Dickson

Josie Van Lent

Amber Sayers

Dr. Tim Goodbrand

Ryle Noble

Lakeland College Marketing Department

Denise Martin

Sharon Reiter

Tracy Quinton

Bevin Hamilton

Janet Kerr

Amy Stanley

Jolet Van Niekerk

Carmen Zayac

Marisa Schuebel

Matt Rustemeir

Commercial Beef Unit

Research Beef Unit

Bison Unit

Dairy Unit

Equine Unit

Lazy MC Angus

Shaft Valley Angus