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Feeder Loan Guarantee Program Webinar with Joe Kuhar, FAA General Manager
Alberta Breeder Finance Inc. (ABFI) Program Webinar with Shelby Thue, FAA Program Support
Western Cash Advance Payments Program (WeCAP) Webinar Joe Kuhar, FAA General Manager
Fine tuning your vitamin and mineral program with Dan Morrical, Production Expert, Premier 1 Sheep Supplies
Seeding Down Forage Stands - Get off on the right foot with Grant Lastiwka
Sheepbytes Ration Balancer Workshop: Introduction and Overview
Sponsored by: Alberta Lamb Producers and Saskatchewan Sheep Development Board
Sheepbytes Ration Balancer Workshop: Using Student Accounts for Practice Session
Sponsored by: Alberta Lamb Producers and Saskatchewan Sheep Development Board
Parasite Management is not just Deworming with Dr. Lynn Tait
Annual Grazing for Sheep with Graeme Finn
Iceberg diseases - infectious diseases that keep adult sheep from performing as they should with Dr. Paula Menzies
Feeding Replacement Ewes and Feeding Late Gestation Ewes with Dr. Paul Luimes, College Research Professor, Coordinator of Ag. Diploma Program, University of Guelph
Wintering Sheep on Limited and Non - Traditional Feeds with Barry Yaremcio
Wednesday, August 18, 2021 at 7:30pm MST
Presentation is 45min, with a 15 min Q & A
With limited forage availability, what can be substituted in to provide a balanced ration? Using by-product and non traditional feeds, and light weight grains can reduce winter feed costs and keep the animals in good condition. The main area of discussion will be on how to use these unusual feeds and appropriate precautions.
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Implications of genetics/genomics: what lessons can Alberta Sheep Producers learn from other industries, with Ghader Manafiazar, University of Alberta, Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Sciences (AFNS), Post-Doc
Presenter Bio
Wednesday, August 25, 2021 at 11am MST
Presentation is 45min, with a 15 min Q & A
Economically important traits such as weaning weight or carcass yield are mainly controlled by genetic and management (environment). Genetic could account for about 60% of phenotypic variation in some of the economically important traits. Other livestock industries such as dairy or beef cattle are successfully implemented genetic technology and sustainably increased their animal performance. For example, beef industry made a 12% gain on average of 205-d adjusted weaning weight over 12 years (from 575 Ib in 1996 to 639 Ib in 2008) due to improvement in genetics and management. Genetic/genomic technology could be used for different objectives including generating estimated breeding value to improve flok performance, parentage assignment to identify sire of a lamb in a multiple sire system, replacement ewe selection as early as they born, disease detection, etc. In this webinar, Dr. Ghader Manafiazar, assistant professor at Dalhousie University, will introduce the basic concept of genetics/genomics and will go through the main implications of this technology in other livestock industries and finally what are the opportunities available for the sheep industry.
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Predation and Wildlife Problems for Landowners Webinar with Ross Hinter, Liaison & Program Devleopment, Alberta Trappers Association
Wednesday, September 22, 2021 at 7pm MST
Presentation is 45min, with a 15 min Q & A
In this Webinar, we will look at some ideas to link up producers with trained trappers that can help bring down numbers of problem wildlife at the right time of the year using the most humane trapping methods in the world.
Canada is the world leader in research and technology for humane trapping. Provincial Fish and Wildlife officers, normally, do not have the resources or man power to deal with wildlife predation problems on private land.
Licensed trappers, that have the proper training, are often the best option, so in this webinar we will look at how it can work better for producers to work more closely with Alberta Trappers. We will look at ways to make a difference to predation and the reoccurring problems associated with over population of Predators.
Understanding the trapping industry, and how it is regulated, will help producers to have a better understanding of the trapping industry and help improve the working relationship with both of our industries.
We will discuss, many of the problems that have resurfaced over the years, as wildlife habitat is being taken out throughout our Province. Many Producers work with both large and small areas of private land they own, as well as land they lease, and having the ability to understand wildlife and how to manage that wildlife while pasturing livestock is critical for effective land and animal management.
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Webinar by Dr John Gilleard BVSc,PhD, DipACVM, MRCVS, Professor, Parasitology - Department of Comparative Biology and Experimental Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
Wednesday, December 8, 2021 at 7pm MST
Presentation is 45min, with a 15 min Q & A
More details to follow