Livestock
Members of the Canada Beef Export Federation have voted unanimously to consolidate their operations with the Beef Information Centre and the national beef checkoff agency. CBEF members approved the merger at a special meeting Friday in Calgary, the organization said in a release Tuesday. The consolidation with the BIC and Canadian Beef Cattle Research, Market […] Read more
CBEF approves merger with BIC, checkoff agency
Atlantic provinces launch strategy against Johne’s
Atlantic Canada’s four dairy boards and the Atlantic Veterinary College have launched a program of testing and assessment to help limit the spread of Johne’s disease in dairy cattle. The boards and the University of Prince Edward Island’s AVC on Monday launched what’s called the Atlantic Johne’s Disease Initiative (AJDI), a program of herd testing, […] Read more
DUC to expand available Sask. pasture, hayland
Ducks Unlimited Canada plans to “greatly” increase the number of acres it makes available each year in Saskatchewan for haying and grazing, to benefit waterlogged ranchers in that province. “We are anticipating that some producers will have difficulty accessing their pastures and hay fields this year” and “will provide access to our land wherever appropriate,” […] Read more
Klassen: Feeder cattle continue grind lower
Western Canadian feeder cattle prices were steady to $2 lower last week. Lighter-weight grass cattle held up fairly well, with heavier replacements moving in line with the slaughter market. Alberta fed steers were $2 lower trading at the $100 per hundredweight (cwt) level, down $16/cwt from the highs in early April. Feeder steers weighing 620 […] Read more
WTO seen putting chill on U.S. COOL
Claims that a new preliminary World Trade Organization ruling favours Canada’s 2009 challenge of U.S. country-of-origin labelling (COOL) have popped up from all manner of sources — just not from official Ottawa or Washington or the WTO itself. Sources reporting at least a partial victory for Canada’s challenge include the Washington-based National Cattlemen’s Beef Association […] Read more
“Cattle plague” rinderpest now wiped out: OIE
A global effort has eradicated the cattle disease rinderpest, which caused the starvation of millions of people, making it the second disease after smallpox to be wiped out by humankind, says the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE). Rinderpest, known before the Roman era and also called “cattle plague,” did not affect humans directly but […] Read more
Feed barley bids slowly trending up
Cash bids for feed barley in Western Canada have been holding fairly steady but also have slowly been trending to stronger territory as feedlots look to cover needs. “Bids for barley have slowly been moving up, especially after stocks of the commodity were shown to be at a tighter-than-anticipated level in the StatsCan stocks report […] Read more
Manitoba rolls out flood compensation programs
Compensation programs have been set up for Manitoba farmers and ranchers who took financial hits from flooding this spring, the opening of a permanent dike on the Assiniboine River, high water in the Shoal Lakes region or livestock losses in the pre-flood snowstorm. The province on Tuesday announced its compensation packages as well as a […] Read more
Klassen: USDA report sets negative tone
Feeder cattle prices were $2 to $3 lower across Western Canada, with prices dropping an additional $1 to $2 late in the week. Steers weighing 620 pounds sold for $135 per hundredweight (cwt) in central Alberta, down $4 from a week earlier; lighter steers weighing 500 to 550 lbs. sold in the range of $138/cwt […] Read more
Red Clover-Grass Mix Info
Reading Time: < 1 minute Foragebeef.ca has added a research paper on seeding patterns and companion grasses affect total forage yield and components of binary red clover-grass mixtures to its Forage Establishment folder. The paper was published in the Canadian Journal of Plant Science, Volume: 91, Number: 2 (2011). Foragebeef.ca is a storehouse of information from many sources pertinent to […] Read more
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