Beef cattle & Farming Articles - Manitoba Co-operator

Restricted-Feed Intake In Heifers Makes Better Cows

By Daniel Winters March 18, 2010

“When you develop a heifer on a restricted-gain program, you change the metabolic efficiency of that heifer and the way it utilizes feed and stores energy reserves.” – JOHN POPP Just as too many cooks can spoil the broth, it seems too much feed makes for less efficient heifers. Using a similar strategy to that

Beef cattle, Dairy cattle, Livestock, Other livestock

Federal Beef-Packing Assistance Welcomed

By Alex Binkley March 18, 2010

“These measures address a real threat to the long-term profitability of the Canadian cattle industry.” – BRAD WILDEMAN Packers and cattle groups say assistance announced in the federal budget will make their sector more competitive. The budget allocated an extra $10 million for the Slaughter Improvement Program, $25 million for packing plants that handle animals

Beef cattle, Crops, Forages, Livestock

How Do You Spell Out Bale Grazing Benefits? N, P, K, S

By Daniel Winters March 18, 2010

Paul Jungnitsch, a student from the University of Saskatchewan, in 2008 figured out a stunning back-of-the-envelope calculation on the potential benefits of wintering cattle on pasture in his master’s thesis. Using a 130-day wintering period, and figuring that there were over five million beef cattle in Canada based on 2007 StatsCan numbers, if all those

Beef cattle, Hogs, Livestock, Opinion, Poultry

The Wedge Effect

By Laura Rance-Unger March 11, 2010

If recent reports are any indication, a growing number of consumers want to feel good about the food they eat – even if it means paying more for it. For example, a recent Context Marketing survey of consumers in the San Francisco Bay area found that 70 per cent of the respondents said they would

Beef cattle, Livestock, Poultry

Cattle Buyer By Day, Consumer Watcher By Night

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff March 11, 2010

When he’s not buying and selling cattle, Rick Wright’s hobby is to watch shoppers peruse the packages at the Costco meat counter – just to gauge their reactions. “They’ll pick up a beef tenderloin, take a look at it, then drop it like it’s on fire when they see the price,” he said. It’s hard

Beef cattle, Livestock

Cattle Cycle Has Bottomed Out, Says Wright

By Daniel Winters March 11, 2010

“Miraculously, in the last year, producers have found every record they had since March of 1999, and are age verifying cows at an alarming rate.” – RICK WRIGHT Cow-calf producers take heart, better times may be on the way. A mass sell-off of cattle around the world driven by years of low prices has finally

Beef cattle, Cereals, Livestock, News

U. S. Cattle Prices To Improve

By Phil Franz-Warkentin March 4, 2010

Slaughter and feeder cattle values in the U. S. should see some improvement over the next two years, although strong feed grain prices and competition from other protein sources may limit the profitability, said analyst James Robb, of the Colorado-based Livestock Marketing Information Center, or LMIC, in a presentation at the Canadian Wheat Board’s annual

Beef cattle, Livestock, News

Weather Smiling On Producers

By Ron Friesen February 25, 2010

“It’s been excellent calving this year.” – Cliff Graydon Manitoba cattle producers last week were reporting near-perfect conditions for newborn animals as the annual winter calving season got underway. Not too cold, not too mild, just enough snow cover and cows in generally good shape. “It’s been excellent calving this year,” said Cliff Graydon, a

Beef cattle, Livestock, Opinion

Potential Benefits From Livestock ID

By Kevin Hursh February 25, 2010

Here in Canada, we’re enhancing our livestock identification programs. Individual cattle ID with radio frequency eartags (RFID), age verification, premise ID, animal movement records – about the only thing that isn’t planned is a GPS locator attached to each individual animal. Incredibly, American efforts for a National Animal Identification System are back to Square 1.

Beef cattle, Hogs, News

Canada Beef Exports To Rise Slightly In 2010

By Rod Nickel February 25, 2010

Canadian beef exports will increase slightly this year despite the cattle industry’s decline, as exports to Mexico and Asia offset fewer shipments to the United States, a top export official said Feb. 18. Farmers and ranchers have downsized their herds of hogs and cattle to the smallest levels in more than a decade due to

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