Join the Ontario Forage Council for their FREE webinar series on Profitable Pastures.
Wednesday, March 6, 2024 at 8pm EST
James Byrne, OMAFRA Beef Specialist: Maximizing animal performance on pasture
Learn how pasture stage of growth effects cattle performance. Learn how to predict cattle performance from stage of growth and how to manage pastures to deliver your ideal cattle performance.
James Byrne is a Beef Cattle Specialist with the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food, and Rural Affairs. James’ main areas of focus include improving cow/calf production and management, improving management of backgrounded cattle on pasture and in confinement, cattle nutrition, and performance from pasture. James writes regularly for Virtual Beef, Ontario Beef and Ontario Cattle Feeders. James is involved with the annual planning of Beef Symposium, Ruminant Feed Industry Days and Grazing Cover Crop workshops. James joined the Ministry in 2017 and is based out of the Lindsay office.
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Young Ranchers Network - January meet up on Virtual Fencing Technology
Jan 16, 2025
7:00 PM CST - 8:00 PM CST
Join our monthly virtual meetings for young ranchers! This peer-to-peer working group focuses on advancing grazing technology, sharing producer-driven topics, and fostering mentorship opportunities.
Journée à foin
Sept 17, 2024
All Day
Join CQPF for a forage day at Institut de recherche et de développement en agroenvironnement, St-Lambert-de-Lauzon, Quebec. Theme will be around Performance measurement. Details to come.
Advanced Grazing Systems Mentorship Training: Day 1
Oct 18, 2024
11:00 AM EDT - 2:00 PM EDT
The CFGA will be hosting our fall Mentorship Training on Friday Oct. 18th and Friday Nov. 1st from 11 am-2 pm EDT. This training is a critical step in the process of becoming a recognized mentor with the CFGA.