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Looking at the list of 142 rec-ommendations from the tech-nical working group outlin-

ing how Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) rules could apply to farms and ranches with a deadline for comments the end of February, it’s apparent the AgCoalition has its hands full. Determining the intent of each piece of legislation and how it can be met within the context of the farm and ranch industry poses a lot of grey areas.

“Therein lies the work ahead for the AgCoalition to take a risk assessment approach to see what the intent for each code require-ment is and then transform it into practical guidelines that will work in our industry,” says Rich Smith, ABP executive director. “The OHS Act says an employer must take any steps that are reasonable and practi-cal to protect the health and welfare of the workers. No one disagrees

with that, but it will be a tedious task to develop the guidelines and then phase in implementation.

“Sam Green from the Alberta Wheat Commission and a member of the AgCoalition, has done the exhaustive job of going through each of the recommendations and there are a finite number of risks not infinite.”

With more than 40,000 farms and ranches in the province, no one expects the long arm of OHS to be on every property auditing their compliance, but what this legis-lation does is raise the profile of a safety culture. To do that, it is vital that the regulations are reasonable enough to encourage producers to move forward on them. The import-ant thing is to get producers think-ing of safety in everything they do.

Smith says that one of the weaknesses of the legislation is that it doesn’t make work places

safer – what makes them safer are employers and employees having the education and training to make them safer. “One of the things that became clear as the government was working through Bill 6, was that the best way to increase the coordina-tion of education and training activ-ity was to develop our own safety association,” says Smith. “To that end, the AgCoalition created the Ag Safe Alberta Society, an industry led farm and ranch safety association. Once we get the safety guidelines developed and recognized by the OHS, then it will be up to the Ag Safe Society to get the information out to producers.”

To date, there is no concrete date for putting the legislation into prac-tice and ABP’s new chair Charlie Christie has it on good authority that the implementation won’t be hurried. On a recent conference call, Minister Carlier assured them that

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ALBERTABEAVERLODGE VJV BEAVERLODGE AUCTIONS Box 606, Beaverlodge, AB T0H 0C0Phone:780-354-2423Fax: 780-354-2420Email: vjvbeaverlodge@gpnet.caWeb: www.vjvauctions.com Contacts:Yancy Crosier 403-485-0887Ged Willis 780-814-4751Ralph Calder 780-618-7655Neil Campbell 780-765-3054 Cell 780-814-4113 Regular Sales: ThursdaysPlease visit our web site for details

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BONNYVILLEWESTERN PRIDE AUCTION CO. LTD. Box 6587, Bonnyville, AB T9N 2H1Phone: 780-826-2233Email: wpa@telusplanet.netWeb: www.westernprideauction.comContact: Marc Jubinville 780-826-0992To note: Western Pride will no longer be conducting regular cattle sales. Western Pride has become agents for North Central Livestock.

BROOKSBOW SLOPE SHIPPING ASSOCIATION Phone: 403-362-5521Fax: 403-362-5541Email: bowslope@eidnet.orgWeb: www.bowslope.comContact:Lachie McKinnon, Manager 403-362-1825Erik Christensen, Asst. Manager 403-363-9942Regular Sales: Every Friday @ 9:00 a.m.Special Sales:All Breed Calf Sale: Mondays & Wednesdays in October & NovemberBred Cow & Heifer Sales: Saturdays in November & DecemberVisit our website for all upcoming sales.

CALGARYTEAM – THE ELECTRONIC AUCTION MARKET Phone: 403-234-7429Fax: 403-266-3368Email: info@calgarystockyards.comWeb: www.teamauctionsales.comContact: Jason DanardFeeder cattle sales every Friday.Slaughter cattle sales daily.Broadcasting live from auction markets across Western Canada daily.

CLYDENORTH CENTRAL LIVESTOCK EXCHANGE INC.PO Box 119, Clyde, AB T0G 0P0Phone: 780-348-5893 Fax: 780-348-5704Email: jchesher@nclclyde.comWeb: www.nclclyde.comContact:Len Hrehorets 780-991-6737Levi Pedgerachny 587-987-1252Garth Rogers 780-349-1491Regular/Presort Sales: Tuesdays @ 9 a.m.Special Sales: Contact for details.Internet Sales: DLMS, contact Jeannie Chase 780-554-4939Email: jeannie@dlms.caWeb: www.dlms.ca

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Phone: 780-554-4939Fax: 780-732-4385 Email: jeannie@dlms.caWeb: www.dlms.caContact: Jeannie ChaseRegular Sales: Thursdays @ 10:00 a.m.Daily Presort Sales from across Western Canada. Please visit our website for more details.

FORT MACLEOD SOUTHERN ALBERTA LIVESTOCK EXCHANGE (S.A.L.E.) – FORT MACLEOD AUCTIONPhone: 403-553-3315 or 888-553-7715Fax: 403-553-4264Email: ramona@livestock.ab.caWeb: www.CanadaLIVE.com or www.livestock.ab.caContact – Cattle:Allan Lively 403-627-7776Justin Keeley 403-627-6534Darren Shaw 403-601-5165Contact – Sheep:Darren Shaw 403-601.5165Ryan Konynenbelt 403-892-6534Regular Sales: Tuesdays @ 9:00 a.m., Feeders first. Special Sales/Electronic Sales: See www.livestock.ab.ca for the most current schedule.

INNISFAILINNISFAIL AUCTION MARKET Phone: 403-227-3166Toll Free: 1-800-710-3166Fax: 403-227-2202Email: iamarket@telus.netWeb: www.innisfailauctionmarket.comContact: Danny Daines 403-391-0580Regular Sales: Wednesdays @ 9:00 a.m.Presort Calves: every Monday in the fall, 10:00 a.m.Special Sales: please see website for details on upcoming Bred Cow, Horses, and Purebred Sales.

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Email: sold@balogauction.com Website: www.balogauction.comContact: Bob Balog 403-382-5727Regular Sales: Every Wednesday @ 10:30 a.m.Special Sales: Mondays, Tuesdays & FridaysElectronic Sales: Thursdays @ 10:00 a.m.

PERLICH BROS. AUCTION MARKET LTD.Phone: 403-329-3101Toll Free: 1-855-737-5424Fax: 403-327-2288Email: auction@perlich.com Website: www.perlich.comContact: Bob Perlich 403-382-7800Regular Sales: Thursdays @ 10:00 a.m. & 1:00 p.m.Special Sales: Rancher Calves – Wednesdays @ 10:00 a.m. Oct. to Dec.Presort Calves: Saturdays & Occasionally Mondays, Oct. to Nov.Stock Cow and Bred Heifers: Tuesdays & Fridays Nov. to Dec. @ 1:00 p.m.

MEDICINE HATMEDICINE HAT FEEDING CO.Phone: 403-526-3129 or 1-800-452-3129Fax: 403-528-9355Email: office@mhfc.caWebsite: www.mhfc.caContact: Lyle Taylor 403-528-0797Nolan Herman 403-502-6417 Regular Sales: Wednesdays @ 9:30 a.m.Bred Sales: Nov. 23, 30 Dec. 7, 14 @ 11:00 a.m.Presort Calf Sales @ 10:00 a.m.:Oct. 16 Angus Pride; Oct. 18 Angus/Hereford Influence; Oct. 20 Angus Performance; Oct. 23 Angus Advantage;Oct. 25 Charolais Gelbvieh Showcase; Oct. 27 Angus Hereford ClassicOct. 30 Angus/Cross Supreme; Nov. 3 Angus Masterpiece;Nov. 6 Angus Influence; Nov. 10 Angus Rock Solid

OLDSOLDS AUCTION MART LTD.Phone: 403-556-3655Fax: 403-556-2688Email: info@oldsauction.com Web: www.oldsauction.comContact:

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PONOKAASHLAND INTERNATIONAL MARKETPhone: 587-802-0201Email: market@ashlands.com Web: www.ashlands.comContact: Jim Ashbaugh Owner/OperatorRegular and Special Electronic Sales: Daily

VOLD JONES VOLD AUCTION CO. LTD. 4410 Hwy. 2A, Ponoka, AB T4J 1J8Phone: 403-783-5561 or 1 (833) VJV-SALEFax: 403-783-4120Email: office@ vjvauction.comWeb: www.vjvauction.comContact:Craig Jacklin, Manager 403-783-1453Henry Thalen, Owner 403-783-0090Regular Sales: every WednesdayButcher Cows/Bulls (Ring 2) 8:30 a.m.Canadian Gold Show Alley (Ring 1) 9:00 a.m. Regular feeder sale to followCdn. Satellite Livestock Auction every Wednesday 11:00 a.m. (Ring 1); Hay &

Straw (outside) 11:00 a.m.Dairy Cows/Baby Calves (Ring 3) 12:00 noonBred Cow & Heifers, Cow-Calf Pairs (Ring 2) 12:00 noonSpecial Sales: See website for all listings of Bred Sales, Bison Sales, Bull Sales & Dairy SalesInternet Sales: Canadian Satellite Livestock Auction www.cslauction.com (see Red Deer) Canadian Gold Show Alley www.vjvauction.comFor a complete list of available field reps, please view our web site www.vjvauction.com

PROVOSTPROVOST LIVESTOCK EXCHANGE Phone: 780-753-2369Fax: 780-753-2493Email: plec@plecattle.comWeb: www.plecattle.comContacts: Jerry Hewson 306-753-7788Dean Lawes 780-753-0803Darcy Lakevold 780-753-8669Casey Lawes 780-753-1466Jesse Lawes 780-753-8590Wayne Black 403-575-0200Regular & Presort Sales: Every Friday @ 9:00 a.m.Presort Sales: Mondays (Oct. 16 – Nov. 20) @ 9:00 a.m.Special Sales: Black & Red Angus - Oct. 23 & Nov. 6 @ 9:00 a.m.Bred Heifer & Stock Cow Sales: Wednesdays @ noon Nov. 29 to Dec. 20

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Kelly Fraser continues the family legacyBy Bonnie Warnyca

Growing up surrounded by cattle, horses and a grain operation, Kelly Smith (Fraser) recalls it as being the best of the best childhoods. Her grandparents J.O. Smith and his wife Rebecca created Poplar Haven Farm located north of Wimborne in the early 1940’s, where they raised five children including Kelly’s dad, Gary. Besides her parents, Gary and Kristine Smith, Fraser and her brother Guy were both playmates and workmates with their cousins only a half mile away from either side of the home farm.

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PROFILE

John Dugan (DVM)– When you love what you do – it isn’t a jobBy Bonnie Warnyca

“It wasn’t that I had too many calls, but each call was far from another,” he says. “You went 40 miles one way to a farm and then the next call came from a farm 25 miles the other way. I hired a young driver during calving season so I could get some sleep along the way. But I learned two things. One was to carry a compass in winter and the other was that I didn’t want to die young during an Alberta winter.”

In the fall of 1955, Dugan decided to check out the City of Red Deer to see if it was a good fit for a new vet practice. Happenstance led him to Sim’s Auction Service and to the owners Alec and Keith Sim who would become lifelong friends.

Rural hospitality The Sims offered me an office at the auction market

and they hired me to do livestock inspections in the market. About a year later, the provincial government took the inspection and hired me to do inspections on sale days at the Red Deer Auction Market,” says Dugan.

“Meanwhile, the Sim brothers introduced me to a lot of people in the livestock industry. That was really the springboard I needed to get my practice going in the area. It wasn’t long before people knew I had a lik-ing for chocolate cake and I ate many pieces of cake with my coffee over the years. Since I was a bachelor, they also made sure to feed me if it was anywhere near lunch time when I arrived.”

In the early and mid-1970’s Dugan was extremely busy doing caesareans on heifers and smaller cows especially when bulls from the newly arrived European breeds were used. But that was about to change.

“An American veterinarian figured out that if you did pelvic measurements you could predict potential calving problems in heifers based on pelvic size. He worked out a system based on pelvic measurement and created a plunger like hydraulic piece to do the measurements and I used this equipment when preg checking. Heifers found with small pelvic measure-ments or large ridges were usually culled.

“In the end, this procedure greatly reduced the num-ber of C-sections in my practice. One rancher client said that after having the pelvic exam done on his heif-ers the need for a caesarian went from a dozen or more to two the next year.”

While foot rot continues to dog the cattle industry, it’s nothing new. Dugan says they once used a product called Hiamine and later High Boot which was a form of iodine (ethylene diamine dihydro iodide) mixed with free flowing salt and it seemed to help control foot rot from occurring. The introduction of Penicillin and sulfa drugs helped in treatment.

At the age of 85, and having just retired from prac-tice a year ago, Dugan admits his shoulders are a bit screwed up from preg checking hundreds of cows. No

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Growing up in Quebec and Vermont, John Dugan returned to Canada to begin his life’s passion by attending the Ontario Veterinary College at

Guelph in 1949. He had originally considered human medicine but chose vet medicine so he could work out in the countryside.

“There were a couple of things that swayed my choice,” says Dugan. “As a teenager, I worked on a dairy farm in Vermont and the people that openly shared their knowledge about raising cattle really piqued my interest to learn more.”

At the time, Guelph offered a five-year degree for veterinarians and it covered everything from cattle to hogs, sheep and poultry, dogs and cats. This training would come in handy years later when Dugan traveled west to begin his new life surrounded by mixed farm-ing operations. And he says, once you solved a prob-

lem in one syndrome, you were imme-diately dubbed famous and that got around to other farmers.

During his third year at Guelph, Dugan was recruited to travel to

Yorkton, Saskatchewan to help with the fallout from the discovery of foot and mouth disease southwest of Yorkton near the small prairie town of Mclean. While the federal vets handled the quarantine, Dugan’s job was to check any and all cattle in the surrounding area that showed signs of drooling or lameness. It was a big job – and proved to be a huge learning curve.

“I met many farmers of European descent such as Ukrainian, Polish and Russian and they helped me to understand many different scenarios for lameness not associated with foot and mouth,” remembers Dugan.

“They all had their own names for the conditions which forced me to pull out the vet textbooks and study more about the causes and cures.

“After the red alert for foot and mouth was down-graded, I was put to work testing for tuberculosis in cattle. I came to Saskatchewan in April of 1952 and left in September; much the wiser.”

After graduating with first class honours from uni-versity, Dugan headed west to the small community of Ryley, east of Edmonton where he spent his first year of practice racing down many a rough country road.

When Tom Thompson of Winding Creek Angus northwest of Edmonton near Mayerthorpe, attended a West Central Forage Association

(WCFA) meeting in 2003, he was looking for ideas to reduce input costs. He went there with an open mind, and 13 years and many management changes later, he says it’s still a work in progress.

“In the cattle business you often find yourself feeling overwhelmed when it seems that banks and equipment dealers are doing well and you’re keeping your head above water with an operating loan,” says Thompson.

“It took some wins and some losses to get to where we are, but we’ve decreased our input costs by about 50 percent.”

Thompson went to his first WCFA annual meeting on a whim but immediately felt he was in the pres-ence of like-minded people. And, when Kit Pharo from Cheyenne Wells, Colorado, walked in the room and was introduced as the guest speaker, he had a front row seat to some new thinking.

“Like most people, initially I was skeptical of many of the changes that seemed outside my comfort zone

and sometimes opposite to what we’ve always done. I later realized that when I was open to new possibilities, the right teacher appeared.

“As I took courses through the WCFA on winter grazing, power fencing and water systems, things started to make sense. The holistic management teach-ings included the environmental twist, people work-ing together and happy and finally the need to be profitable.”

Kit Pharo talked about three keys to success and the first one was to match the production cycle with the forage cycle. Mother Nature’s feed source should be there before the calves are born. This also eliminates much of the prepared feed to keep lactating cows in good condition.

The second key is to rest the grass during the growth cycle.

“Every ranch is different with different rainfall, land and the type of cattle you raise. Also, it’s important to adapt the management ideas to what you’re com-fortable with and how it fits your environment,” says Thompson. This is not grain country – it’s rolling with lots of bush. We get frost in late spring and early fall.

“The power fencing is a wonderful key to manage livestock. According to Joe Saliton, this is a psycholog-ical barrier not a physical one. And he was right. In the past, the bulls wrecked everything we put them in but the power fence turned that around. Pharo says bulls

have a lower tolerance of pain than cows and it sure seems to be true.

“Then came water development and trial and error. We started using smaller solar panels to charge the pump batteries, but since we have less sun here, that didn’t do the trick. We went to a wind turbine for backup which was hit and miss with so many moving parts. Now that we’ve increased the size of the solar panels, our biggest system can pump 12.5 gallons per minute 400 feet in the air in the dead of winter and recharge pretty quickly. We blew a few batteries before we realized with a big-ger system you need a charge control to stop the charge when the batteries are charged. The size of the panels depends on the number of cattle you’re watering and that dictates the number of batteries you need.

“It takes a while for the light to come on in our heads about how all things fit together. The leaves of the plants are the solar panels for the root and the root is what we’re managing.”

Once the family completed the Environmental Farm Plan, they were able to access funding from the Growing Forward program to help with water devel-

opment which ran about $26,000 for one system includ-ing the cement pad.

The third and final key is to have smaller, hardier animals. The Thompsons believe that there are more differences within a breed than there is between breeds. They began this journey with 1400 to 1600 lb. cows and through line breeding their Angus cross cows, the goal is to get them down to 1150 to 1200 lb.

Calving has gone from winter to begin the middle of May. “This is when we can use stockpiled grass or when the grass has enough green on the bottom to bal-ance the rumen giving the cattle a shotgun start,” says Thompson.

“With intensive grazing and resting you can get anywhere from 50 percent to 200 percent more grass. Normally, our pattern is to mix the stockers and the cow-calf pairs together to go around the grazing cell taking half the plant and leaving half. Then we destock by sending the steers and some cull cows to market to reduce our numbers for the second go round when the growth cycle is slower and our moves are slower. We leave 30 percent of the grass in the second round.

“We move cattle once a day. Grass growth determines how large the paddock is each day. I usually check the cattle during the day to make sure my calculations are correct. That’s the great thing about this management – you can adjust everything you’re doing before you have a wreck.”

Winding Creek Angus – Change is a work in progress

“If you’re not working with nature, you’re trying to swim upstream,” says Tom Thompson.

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The team has a current research study in effect in collaboration with Cargill using the infrared technology to single out animals at risk of dark cutting. Once they identify them, they treat them with another product that has been perfected by Schaefer called DeStress to calm the animal down prior to processing.

“A third application for the technology is in the identifica-tion of metabolic efficiency,” says Schaefer. “Simply stated, ani-mals that are more efficient lose less energy to the environment. Infrared can identify and rank these animals with a 24h test. This would particularly have appli-cation for example in a feedlot where the incoming calves could be measured in a “forecasting” manner to enable management and feeding decisions to be made in the current production cycle. If an animal was known to be less efficient, a feedlot operator could elect not to try to finish that ani-mal to a high quality grade since it would simply take more feed and time to do so. That would sig-nificantly reduce the cost of pro-duction for the feedlot.”

Which one of the livestock solutions with this technology will move to the forefront largely depends on the willingness of engineers and manufacturers to develop the infrared cameras to be more portable, cost effective and reliable.

“The infrared cameras are coming down in price,” says Schaefer. “That has to happen to be able to introduce this technol-ogy into feedlots and cow-calf watering stations.

“Since Canada is one of the few countries in the world to have RFID tags able to contain a lot of data about the animals, we could lead the world by marrying the infrared diagnostic output to those tags. The infrared camera would take the image and the RFID tag would send the image to

a computer data base. This would be a huge tool for pen checkers. They could check the computer to see what animals are show-ing signs of distress either with cooler or hotter temperatures and include them on their daily pen check list.”

Currently RFID tags can go in either ear, but Schaefer says if they put them all in the same ear, it would save the cost of a second detection antennae.

The team continues its testing of different infrared cameras to try to find a less expensive model for pro-ducers. Schaefer is encouraged by the work that computer scientists have done to automate the systems more reliably.

“We’re steadily moving forward into application mode and the future looks bright for infrared technology to help the industry solve some of its long-term challenges,” he says. ■

BY BONNIE WARNYCAInfrared technology use in

animal agriculture is a fairly recent phenomenon in North

America but Canadian research-ers are hoping this technology will impact the cattle industry in several areas.

Dr. Allan Schaefer, adjunct pro-fessor at the University of Alberta, has been studying the possible uses for this non-invasive technol-ogy in livestock for over 25 years and suggests they are in the beta phase of testing for commercial applications. As they continue to uncover uses for this technol-ogy, they have already proven its worth both economically and in the area of animal welfare.

He says if you ask producers and feedlot operators what their biggest challenge is they will often point to bovine respiratory disease or BRD. Food processors by comparison, continue to deal with beef quality factors such as

dark cutters and of course, feed efficiency affects everyone in the value chain.

“We initially collaborated with the Animal Disease Research Institute in Lethbridge and its great group of veterinarian pathologists to track the respira-tory virus or BRD in beef calves,” says Schaefer. “Within a few days of virus infection, using this thermal signal, we were able to identify the onset of a respi-ratory problem in calves while the clinical signs didn’t show up until day nine or 10. Clinical signs appear slowly because cattle are prey animals and have evolved to not show signs of weakness to predators which makes the dis-ease tough to recognize until it’s almost full blown.”

A few months ago, Schaefer and his team installed an infrared system in a waterer at the Olds College beef unit. The objective

was to test less expensive infrared cameras which would bring the cost down for producers. Schaefer says with current costs for treat-ing BRD running anywhere from $35 to as high as $75 a head, iden-tifying this disease in its incuba-tion stage could reduce antibiotic use and costs, but also help to pre-vent co-mingled cattle from con-tracting the disease.

Schaefer says just as the ancient Greek physicians used their hands to detect heat signals, or a human milker detecting mastitis in a dairy cow, an infrared camera can detect thermal biometric signals often associated with infection.

“In addition, he says, when cattle are stressed, you can see all kinds of thermal changes either too cold or too hot. While a higher temperature in an animal can often predict an infection, a lower heat signal can also detect other signs of abnormalities.”

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