Livestock
Canadian Cattlemen’s Association past-president Brad Wildeman has been elected as chair of the board of Canada Beef Inc., the new organization formed by the merger of Canadian Beef Cattle Research, Market Development and Promotion Agency (National Check-off Agency), Canada Beef Export Federation and the Beef Information Centre. Wildeman is a feedlot operator from Lanigan, Saskatchewan. […] Read more
Brad Wildeman elected board chair of Canada Beef Inc.
Pfizer brings boar-taint remedy to Canada
Canadian hog producers will soon be able to immunize male pigs against boar taint as an alternative to castration. Pfizer Animal Health has received regulatory approval to launch Improvest, a product that has been available in other pork producing countries for more than a decade. Improvest is a protein that uses the pig’s own […] Read more
Please don’t bring these in your baggage
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is urging travellers to be mindful of the role they play in keeping Canada free of serious foreign animal diseases. “Travellers should be extra vigilant at the border in light of recent outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease in Asia, classical swine fever in Europe, and African swine fever in Russia. While […] Read more
Klassen – extensive heat melts feeder cattle market
Sweltering heat has slowed beef consumption on the restaurant and retail level. Top Alberta slaughter prices were reported at $97/cwt, down $7/cwt to $10/cwt from last week with many feedlots holding back on sales. U.S. fed prices were also $3 softer with cattle moving at $108/cwt in Kansas. A healthy group of professionally backgrounded exotic […] Read more
Plenty of U.S. beef – for now, that is
Americans will have plenty of beef for the freezer, with enough left over to export in 2011, but supply will shrink in 2012 because the cattle herd is getting smaller, according to U.S. government reports released July 22. A USDA feedlot cattle report showed 10.45 million cattle were being fattened for slaughter on July 1, […] Read more
Manitoba crop reports available here
Manitoba Agriculture has released its weekly crop report, crop production report and crop weather report. Due to a publication ban in advance of an October election, these reports cannot be posted on the government website but are available here.
U.S. cattle herd lowest on record
The U.S. fed cattle supply on July 1 was 3.8 per cent larger than a year ago as a devastating drought in the U.S. Southwest and high cattle prices pulled young cattle into feedlots, analysts said on Friday. In a separate report, USDA put the U.S. cattle herd, which includes all cattle inside and outside […] Read more
Cattle stress – nighttime heat is also a threat
In his regular weekly BeefTalk column, North Dakota State Extension Service beef specialist Kris Ringwall notes the current North American heat wave combined wth high humidity and relatively calm winds have caused considerable loss of life among cattle. He warns that this is not just a problem with feedlot cattle and that night temperatures which […] Read more
Alberta announces hog price insurance
The Alberta government has announced a new risk management program for the province’s hog producers. The Hog Price Insurance Program (HPIP) is similar to the CPIP program for cattle. The province says it will help provide hog producers with protection against an unpredicted price decline, and will be delivered by Alberta’s Agriculture Financial Services Corporation […] Read more
Klassen – Cash feeder cattle percolate higher
Western Canadian feeder cattle prices were steady to $2 higher than week-ago levels. Auction market volumes remain very thin with medium quality cattle coming on the market this time of year. In central Alberta, none-weight steers averaged $118/cwt; 850-pound steers brought back $128/cwt. There was very little selection to choose from with larger feedyards absorbing […] Read more
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