Gut development key to canola meal absorption

Can canola meal offer sound nutrition to your newborn calves? To answer this question, Dr. Greg Penner with University of Saskatchewan recently prevented “Canola Meal in Starter Mixtures for Dairy Calves: Improving Utilization By Focusing on Gut Development,” hosted by AMTS and Canolamaz!ng. In his studies, Penner looked at the anti-nutritional factors, including glucosinolates, erucic acid,

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by Sally Colby

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If every farmer took time to think through their actions prior to carrying out a task, Ed Aukamp might be out of a job. Aukamp is an EMT, paramedic an...

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Measured, matched & monitored minerals

by Enrico Villamaino

November 4, 2026

Mineral programs can be easy to start and surprisingly hard to get right. Most beef herds have a mineral feeder somewhere in the pasture, but having a...

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Farmers First: Leave me alone, I’m just tired

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It’s that time of year, farm family – the time when moving to an abandoned shack in the middle of nowhere starts sounding awfully attractive. There ar...

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Crop Comments: Fall fertilizer update

Crop Comments A8

November 4, 2026

Just when the global fertilizer scene hints at calming down, one of the normally tamer (and lesser) components has begun misbehaving: elemental sulfur...