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File photo of cattle in an Alberta feedlot. (Geralyn Wichers photo)
Beef cattle, Livestock, Markets

Klassen: Cash feeder prices soften on futures market uncertainty

Supplies are higher than expected as consumers reign in spending

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The live and feeder cattle futures appear to be incorporating a risk discount due to the uncertainty in demand. Consumers are pulling in the reigns on spending. Interest rates are at 40 year highs and inflation remains elevated. Larger supplies and lower demand results in lower prices.
In 2019, Cargill estimated 6.5 million pounds of eligible beef was losing certification at the feedlot level.
Beef cattle, Livestock, News

CCIA to track certified sustainable beef

The Canadian Roundtable for Sustainable Beef says greater data visibility will help it find the holes in its pipeline

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A new partnership with the Canadian Cattle Identification Agency will help Canada’s certified sustainable beef system find out where cattle are dropping out of the supply chain, according to the Canadian Roundtable for Sustainable Beef. It will also allow producers to track certified animals through the value chain, said the CRSB. Why it matters: Under
University of Saskatchewan researcher Paola Elizalde Ruiz drops an experimental vaccine vector into the eye of a calf.
Beef cattle, Livestock

Vaccination for cattle aims to leave pink eye in the dust 

New method promises to battle disease where it lives

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Glacier FarmMedia – Treating pink eye in cattle on pasture can be frustrating, time consuming and only minimally effective. That’s why researchers with the University of Saskatchewan have completed a trial project that may set the stage for more effective treatment. Results from the recent study, started by now-retired researcher Philip Griebel, suggest that dropping
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Beef cattle, Livestock

FCC to offer beef heifer replacement loans

Loan program for those wanting to build, maintain herds

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Cattle producers wanting to expand or maintain herds — in a time of nationwide herd contraction — are the expected beneficiaries for a new loan program from Farm Credit Canada. FCC on Tuesday announced what it calls the Replacement Heifer Program, consisting of a loan with a maximum loan life of seven years and a
File photo of a case of lumpy skin disease in Bangladesh. (Md Babul Hosen/iStock/Getty Images)
Beef cattle, Dairy cattle, Livestock

Australia buys vaccines for lumpy skin disease to safeguard cattle exports

Recent scares halted some live export trade

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Canberra | Reuters — The Australian government said on Wednesday it had bought a supply of vaccines for lumpy skin disease (LSD), a highly infectious condition affecting cattle, as part of efforts to control the disease and maintain live animal exports. The government says Australia is free of LSD but infection scares in recent months
File photo of moose in a Saskatchewan field. (BobLoblaw/iStock/Getty Images)
Beef cattle, Dairy cattle, Livestock

Saskatchewan expands wildlife testing to include bovine TB

CFIA probe of cattle herd finds 10 infected so far

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Recent confirmed cases of bovine tuberculosis (TB) in a Saskatchewan cattle herd have led the province to expand its annual wildlife monitoring program for chronic wasting disease (CWD) to also include TB. The province each year since 1997 has asked hunters to submit heads from harvested deer, moose and elk to test for CWD. It
The Beef Cattle Research Council really got its start when government started backing out of beef research, says Andrea Brocklebank, BCRC executive director.
Beef cattle, Livestock

The guiding light of beef research

BCRC celebrates 25 years of funding research the government wouldn’t

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Many beef producers might remember a time, say 25 years ago, that a 900-pound steer would be considered finished. Today, there’s a good chance that same steer would be 50 pounds away from starting the finishing process. Craig Lehr remembers. And on the 25th anniversary of the largest not-for-profit, industry-led funding agency in Canadian beef
Cattle cross into a paddock with fresh forage within Ted Unruh’s rotational grazing system near Cromer, Man.
Beef cattle, Livestock

Turning back the clock with grazing

Cattle can help fill the biodiversity void left from the loss of bison

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Cattle are often maligned for their contributions to greenhouse gas levels, but Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s Tim McAllister says that’s wrongheaded. “We hear about people advocating for the need to eliminate livestock from agriculture production, basically without really understanding the negative connotations that would have,” the researcher said during a University of Manitoba webinar in August. “We really need to be
alberta cattle smoky skies
Beef cattle, Columns

Smoke inhalation can affect cattle

Research shows an effect in housed dairy cattle so outdoor beef animals are surely affected too

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Wildfires have exceeded all records in the 2023 season. Both British Columbia and Alberta are expected to see more than two million hectares destroyed. There has been steady growth in the number and size of wildfires since the 1980s. Drought, global warming and storms are generally the culprits and there has been plenty of smoke
JBS signage at Greeley, Colorado. (JBS.com.br)
Beef cattle, Livestock, Markets

JBS posts quarterly loss on tight U.S. beef margins

'Greater balance' forecasted for global chicken supply

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Sao Paulo | Reuters — Brazilian meat company JBS SA on Monday reported a second-quarter loss citing the negative effects of an oversupplied global chicken market and tighter margins for its beef business in the U.S., where it gets most of its sales. JBS reported a net loss of 263.6 million reais (C$73.8 million), the

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