Reading Time: < 1 minute Alberta Beef Producers’ elections have wrapped up. There were elections for delegates in Zones 3 and 5, with the remaining seven zones electing delegates by acclamation. Elections took place during ABP meetings in October and November. Zones 4, 6, 7, and 8 have vacancies. Here are the ABP delegates for the 2014-15 year. (An asterisk […] Read more
Alberta Beef Producers delegates for 2014-15
Seven zones elect delegates by acclamation
EXCLUSIVE: Loblaws jumps on board the sustainable beef initiative
Canada’s largest food retailer has joined McDonald’s, the largest beef buyer, in an undertaking that could reshape the cattle sector
Reading Time: 5 minutes Canada’s largest food retailer has pledged to start selling sustainable beef, joining forces with the country’s largest beef buyer in an initiative that could reshape the industry, Alberta Farmer has learned. Loblaws, which has more than 1,000 stores serving 14 million Canadians weekly, already has a sustainable seafood program and is keen to do the […] Read more
Cow-calf producers needed for benchmark survey
Reading Time: < 1 minute More than 1,500 western Canadian cow-calf producers are needed for a management survey that will help guide provincial extension and research activities for the beef cattle industry. “What we’re hoping to do is get farmers to fill out the survey and tell us what they did last year,” said Barry Yaremcio, beef and forage specialist […] Read more
Alberta Beef Producers’ fall meetings underway
Reading Time: < 1 minute ABP release – Alberta Beef Producers’ fall meetings are underway — with 23 meetings in nine zones slated for the next two weeks. Meetings will provide attendees with an overview of the work ABP and partner organizations have focused on the last year and discussion on the Plan Review will take place. Producers have the […] Read more
Drilling down into the livestock price insurance program
The futures price, basis, and exchange rate are part of the equation, but a producer’s situation is also key
Reading Time: 3 minutes Editor’s note: One of the producer questions for the April 28 edition — on the Western Livestock Price Insurance Program — took some additional investigation by reporter Alexis Kienlen. Vermilion cattle producer Sean McGrath asked, “I understand the risks that WLPIP is covering — futures price, basis, and exchange rate — but what goes into […] Read more
High hopes for new forage beef centre, but ‘fickle governments’ a worry
Boosting pasture productivity and lowering winter feed costs put money in the pocketbook, but forage research still a hard sell
Reading Time: 3 minutes A deal to finally make the proposed Alberta Forage Beef Centre in Lacombe a reality can’t come soon enough for its backers, who have been pushing government for a funding commitment since 2011. “We’re in the process of getting everyone together in the same room to negotiate the terms of an agreement,” Karen Schmid, beef […] Read more
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