Management practices to improve sustainability and profitability of cow-calf operations across Canada

The purpose of this project if to develop a Canadian Cow-Calf Cost of Production (COP) Network including of 26 different focus group sessions across Canada, located in different eco-regions, to gather production and economic data following agribenchmark global agriculture network methodology.

This data will also be used to assess greenhouse gas emissions associated with the farm scenarios/typologies identified above. It will offer a unique opportunity to identify important practices associated with both increased profitability and sustainability that are specific to individual eco-regions and production systems.

Faculty Supervisor:

Kim Ominski

Student:

Aaron Knodel

Partner:

The Canadian Cattlemen's Association

Discipline:

Animal science

Sector:

Agriculture

University:

University of Manitoba