(Photo courtesy Canada Beef Inc.)

Klassen: Feeder cattle trade at 52-week highs

New-crop feed grain values under pressure

Compared to last week, western Canadian yearlings traded steady to $2 higher with exceptional demand noted on steers over 700 pounds. Calf values were mixed in Alberta with markets trading $2-$4 on either side of unchanged; however, prices were steady to $4 higher in Saskatchewan and Manitoba. Small groups of various quality characterized the feeder




Granaries in the Odesa region of Southern Ukraine, June 22, 2022. With ports remaining closed despite international efforts to reach a deal, harvests are getting underway with storages still loaded with last year’s crops.

Dead end for Ukraine grain

Ukrainian farmers may soon be forced to make hard decisions about next season

Two years ago, when the coronavirus pandemic swept over the world, I didn’t worry about Ukrainian farmers at all. They calmly did their work, plowed the land, sowed and harvested. If in Ukrainian cities then there was a difficult situation with COVID-19, then the farmers almost did not notice it. A year earlier, Ukraine’s fields