Just days after taking on the cattle sector’s top leadership job, the pandemic hit — the first in a series of crises Bob Lowe had to deal with. But demand for Canadian beef has never been stronger and there are much better times ahead, says the past president of the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association.

It’s been one crisis after another but better days are coming

After two very tough years, better days are on the way for cattle sector, says Bob Lowe

Reading Time: 4 minutes COVID. Drought. Border blockades. A feed crisis. Packing plant closures. As the man at the helm of Canada’s top cattle organization, Bob Lowe has had more fires to put out than any Canadian Cattlemen’s Association president in recent memory. And now that he’s finished his term as president, the Nanton-area rancher and feedlot operator is […] Read more

Bob Lowe.

Bob Lowe re-elected as CCA president

Reading Time: < 1 minute Bob Lowe has been re-elected as president of the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association. The Nanton rancher and feedlot operator took over the CCA job just as the pandemic arrived and while dealing with issues arising from COVID remains a priority, there are other matters on the organization’s plate. Those include making the Livestock Price Insurance Program […] Read more


David Haywood-Farmer. (We Heart Local BC video screengrab via YouTube)

New chief acclaimed for national cattle producer group

A former president of the B.C. Cattlemen’s Association is the new president of the national cattle producers’ body. David Haywood-Farmer was elected by acclamation as president of the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association at the group’s annual general meeting last week in Ottawa. Haywood-Farmer, a cow-calf producer at Savona, B.C., about 40 km west of Kamloops, was […] Read more

Talks continue but the issue of a non-refundable checkoff continues to bedevil the province’s two big 
cattle organizations.

Cattle organizations still talking — but no checkoff deal in sight

One proposal to resolve contentious issue of 
non-refundable checkoffs shot down in May and a new one is still being ‘analyzed’

Reading Time: 3 minutes Despite years of talks, the Alberta Cattle Feeders Association and Alberta Beef Producers still appear to be far apart in making a non-refundable provincial checkoff a reality. A new proposal was put on the table late last month, but while the chair of Alberta Beef Producers describes it as a major step forward, his counterpart […] Read more


Bob Lowe new chair of Alberta Beef Producers

Reading Time: < 1 minute Bob Lowe is the new chair of Alberta Beef Producers. The Nanton producer was elected at the organization’s meeting earlier this month. The other executive board members are vice-chair Roland Cailliau (Valleyview), finance chair Charlie Christie (Trochu), and past chair Greg Bowie (Ponoka). The other members on the 2016 board of directors are Howard Bekkering […] Read more