 Field Days
Field Days are held annually at the Termuende Research Ranch near Lanigan, SK, one in the winter and one in the summer. These field days provide producers, researchers and clients with the opportunity to see the centre’s activities first hand. The days consist of guest speakers, technical presentations, and field tours.
2010 Summer Field Day
Our next Summer Field Day scheduled for Tuesday, June 22, 2010. (Rain or Shine, the Field Day will proceed.) An agenda will follow closer to the date.
2009 Winter Field Day
After a few nice days in December, the air turned chill again for the WBDC’s Winter Field day, held December 11, 2009. Nevertheless, about 60 people turned up for this half-day event consisting of an afternoon of guided field tours of research projects in progress, a couple indoor presentations and a question and answer session. The field tours included:
- bale grazing
- backgrounding calves on swath grazing
- backgrounding calves on DDGS and bale grazing
- grazing cows on pea straw and chaff
Blairs’ Livestock also hosted a Class of ’09 Scholarship Heifer sale at the ranch the next day, Saturday, December 12.
Click here for directions to the Termuende Research Ranch.
Below are links to presentations that were given at the 2009 Winter Field Day
2009 Summer Field Day
Our 2009 field day drew a crowd of over 180 attendees from far and wide. Guest speakers addressed Market Outlooks, Low-Cost Producers, and Controlling Leafy Spurge with Beef Cattle. The afternoon field tours took in research dealing with Copper in Trace Mineral Programs, Calving Season Economics, Cost of Production, Winter Feeding Systems, Bale Grazing Calves and Run-off Water Filtration. Many people topped the day off with a delicious steak supper and visiting.
Below are links to presentations that were given at the 2009 Summer Field Day:
Copper in Trace Mineral Programs – Dr. Steve Hendrick
Calving Season Economics – Tanis Sirksi & Lynne Girardin
Winter Feeding Systems; Monitoring Manure Nutrients – Dr. Jeff Schoenau/Amber Smith
Bale Grazing Calves; Supplementing Dry Distillers’ Grains – Dr. Bart Lardner/Leah Dixon
Run-off Water filtration - PFRA
Cost of Production – Leo Kosokowsky
We would like to thank our sponsors for the day:
 GOLD SPONSORS
Blair's Crop & Livestock Solutions
Feed Rite Ltd
Maple Farm Equipment
Sask. & Canadian Angus Associations
Verified Beef Productions
SILVER SPONSORS
Conexus
Kelln Consulting Ltd.
Lamb Acres Farm Supply
Canadian Hereford Association
Highline Manufacturing
Viterra Forages
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (Shelterbelt Centre)
 BRONZE SPONSORS
Canadian Limousin Association
PFRA
Special thanks to the Carleton 4H Beef Club for coordinating the noon lunch.
2008 Winter Field Day
Forty-five hardy people braved the chill winds on December 2 (Tuesday), 2008 to attend the first WBDC Winter Field Day. Producers had a chance to see first hand, ongoing research projects at the Termuende Research Ranch. Projects toured were:
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- Backgrounding calves on annual crop swath grazing
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Nutrient Export
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DDGS supplementation for straw/chaff pile grazing cows
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Supplementation of DDGS in winter backgrounding
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 The data gathered to date from these research projects shows that in-field feeding or grazing beef cattle during the winter can reduce costs of keeping beef cows or backgrounding calves, and thus can result in keeping some cash in the producers’ pockets by reducing feed handling, yardage, and manure hauling costs.
Producer feedback for the event was very positive. |
Each year, usually in the January to March time frame, the WBDC sponsors a series of cow/calf schools around the Province of Saskatchewan . These are typically one-day schools for producers where they can get current information on various aspects of the beef industry from WBDC staff and invited speakers.