Research project factsheets

Full reports are available for all completed projects.

If you would like to request a project report, please contact feedback@cattle.ca
 

Animal Health & Welfare

General

• Development of DNA-based vaccines for livestock [PDF / 318KB]  Posted 2007.

Cow-Calf

• Effect of oil field emissions on beef cattle health [PDF / 318KB]  Posted 2007.
• Determining the risk of importing bluetongue and anaplasmosis into western Canada [PDF / 321KB]  Posted 2007.
• Environmental Factors Influencing the Risk of Bovine Anaplasmosis [PDF / 1.0MB]  Posted 2010.
• Detecting Johne's Disease in Cattle, Wildlife and the Environment [PDF / 574KB]  Posted 2010.
• Prevention and Control of Johne's Disease [PDF / 826KB]  Posted 2009.
• Outsmarting Johne's Disease [PDF / 1.09MB]  Posted 2010.
• Challenges to Developing an Effective Vaccine for Newborn Calves [PDF / 1.1MB]  Posted 2010.
• Developing a BVD Vaccine for Newborn Calves [PDF / 1.2MB]  Posted 2011.
• Fluke of Nature [PDF / 944KB]  Posted 2011.

Feedlot

• How stress predisposes calves to b pneumonia [PDF / 285KB]  Posted 2008.
• Developing a more effective vaccine for Bovine Respiratory Disease [PDF / 326KB]  Posted 2007.
• What role does mycoplasma play in Bovine Respiratory Disease? [PDF / 341KB]  Posted 2007.
• Reducing the cost of Mycoplasma bovis [PDF / 322KB]  Posted 2007.
• How Mycoplasma Spreads [PDF / 1.01MB]  Posted 2010.
• Managing Mycoplasma [PDF / 1.08MB]  Posted 2010.

Feed Efficiency

• Effects of feeding corn distillers’ grains on animal health, performance and carcass value [PDF / 875KB]  Posted 2010.

Forage & Grassland

• Making forage and beef research accessible [PDF / 332KB]  Posted 2007.
• Insects for Weed Control [PDF / 416KB] Posted 2008.
• Trickle Down Benefits from the Hog Industry [PDF / 1.09MB]  Posted 2010.
• Does pasture management affect the environment? [PDF / 941KB]  Posted 2011.
• Pasture management and productivity [PDF / 940KB] Posted 2011.
• Management of Canadian Prairie Rangeland [PDF / 1.67MB]  Posted 2011.

Food Safety

• Controlling E. coli O157:H7 in beef cattle and the environment using a bacterial virus [PDF / 323KB]  Posted 2007.
• Does soil effectively filter E. coli O157:H7? [PDF / 322KB]  Posted 2007.
• Reducing water pollution [PDF / 328KB]  Posted 2007.
• Antibiotic Resistance [PDF / 1.00MB]  Posted 2010.
• Effect of veterinary antibiotics used in the beef cattle industry on the environment [PDF / 385KB]  Posted 2008.
• MRSA in Beef [PDF / 1.41MB]  Posted 2010.
• Why do some cattle shed more E coli 0157 H7 [PDF / 1.11MB]  Posted 2010.
• Do Distillers Grains Increase E. coli Shedding? [PDF / 973KB]  Posted 2011.
• Antimicrobial use and resistance in feedlot cattle [PDF / 590KB] Posted 2011.

Beef Quality

Seedstock and Cattle Management

• Factsheet for Validation of Genetic Marker for Beef Tenderness [PDF / 842KB]  Posted 2010.
• Enhancing the nutritional value of beef [PDF / 333KB]  Posted 2007.
• Modifying and Controlling the trans Fatty Acid Profile in Beef [PDF / 1.00MB]  Posted 2010.
• Dark Cutting Beef [PDF / 1.00MB]  Posted 2010.

Packing Industry

• Improving the tenderness of underutilized beef sub-primals and cuts [PDF / 410KB]  Posted 2007.
• The impact of age time and temperature on the quality of beef cuts [PDF / 322KB]  Posted 2007.
• Use of Glycolytic Inhibitors to Improve Beef Tenderness [PDF / 1.26MB]  Posted 2010.
• Canada's 2009 Beef Consumer Satisfaction Survey [PDF / 1.40MB]  Posted 2010.
• National Beef Quality Audit: 2009 Retail Beef Satisfaction Benchmark [PDF / 1.00MB]  Posted 2010.

Other Research

• Mapping the Bovine Genome [PDF / 47KB]  Posted 2006.
• The effect of BSE on market power in the Alberta red meat packing industry [PDF / 319KB]  Posted 2007.

For further information on any of these projects, email feedback@cattle.ca