2025 Cow-Calf Management Tour

Beef Farmers of Ontario invite you to join us on August 22 and 23, 2025, for farm tours in Lennox & Addington and surrounding area. This event will provide an opportunity to learn from other cow-calf producers through farm tours and guest speakers. We look forward to discussing pasture research and management, genetic selection, strategies to prepare calves for the feedlot, marketing, and more. Please note, only the August 22 event day qualifies as an OFCAF Rotational Grazing Knowledge Sharing Event.

Draft Agenda:

Friday, August 22nd

12:15 pm Registration at the Hampton Inn, Napanee

1:00 pm Bus departs hotel

1:15 pm Farm Stop 1

This family farm is a mixed farming operation consisting of hay, beef, soy beans, and wheat. They have a Charolais cow herd where they focus on producing quality calves that will go on to perform well in the feedlot. Their farm meets the standards of the Canadian Roundtable for Sustainable Beef (CRSB) through certification with the Verified Beef Production Plus (VBP+) program. They emphasize the value of improving the environment through rotational grazing, water management, and working with organizations like Ducks Unlimited.

3:15 pm Farm Stop 2

This family farm is a purebred Red Angus cow-calf operation which focuses on genetic selection and producing seedstock. Discussions will focus on marketing cattle, succession planning, forage production, and a guest speaker on predation challenges.

4:30 pm Farm Stop 3

This family farm features an 800 head backgrounding operation. We will take a wagon ride tour of the pasture-based operation discussing grazing management, processing protocol, and their business model on sourcing calves and having consistent buyers.

Dinner catered on-farm.

Living Lab Producer Panel

Living Lab – Ontario is a five-year innovation project that brings together farmers, organizations, researchers, and other experts to co-develop, test, and evaluate beneficial management practices (BMPs) that address climate change challenges in livestock and cropping systems. We will hear from producers involved in the beef-related living lab projects.

Evening Hospitality

9:00 pm Bus returns to hotel

Where? Napanee, ON, Canada

REGISTER NOW: Deadline to register is August 6th, space is limited this year.

2025 Cow-Calf Management Tour is an OSCIA-recognized Knowledge Sharing Event (KSE) for farmers with On-Farm Climate Action Fund (OFCAF) projects in the Rotational Grazing category.