Heartland Livestock Services announced the closure July 25. The Brandon auction mart has been a historic standby for Manitoba beef producers selling their cattle.
A legal expert warns that growing animal rights activism is creating complex challenges for Canadian farmers, despite livestock industry groups spending considerable effort on their public trust files.
In major U.S. livestock regions, some ranchers have slowly begun taking the first steps to boost cattle production after the nation’s inventory shrank due to a years-long drought that dried up pasture land used for grazing and hiked feeding costs.