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Latin American nations say their beef sector shouldn’t bear the responsibility for cleaning up the messes of others.

Latin America to defend beef production at UN food summit

Region fears their agricultural products will be scapegoated by more powerful blocs

By Daniela Desantis August 4, 2021

Reuters – Latin American and Caribbean countries, especially big food producers in South America, will join forces to defend the region’s livestock production at a United Nations’ food summit this month amid concerns over the sector’s environmental impact. Paraguay’s farming and livestock minister, Santiago Bertoni, said in a video conference that the main focus was

Editorial, Op/Ed, Other

Editor’s Take: Auto insurance in Manitoba is a red tape road

By Gord Gilmour May 20, 2021

Every spring it seems like it’s Autopac season here in Manitoba. There’s a perpetual lineup at the local agencies as classic cars, motorcycles, recreation vehicles and farm trucks hit the road again for another year. It makes no sense whatsoever that we’re all required to attend, in person, at an office of an insurance broker,

A few small changes can compound and really build the bottom line of cow-calf operations.

Beef cattle, Livestock

Time to sweat the small things

Eking out a little improvement here and there may pay off exponentially for cow-calf producers

By Alexis Stockford January 5, 2021

Contrary to what most learned in elementary school, two plus two does not always equal four. Instead, according to Robyn Paddison, research analyst with CanFax, small changes to a cow-calf operation can be much more the sum of their parts when it comes to the bottom line. Why it matters: Small, simultaneous changes to production,

Livestock, Markets

Klassen: Calf prices ratcheting higher

By GFM Network News, Jerry Klassen November 18, 2020

Compared to last week, western Canadian yearling markets traded $2-$4 on either side of unchanged; mid-weight calves were also unchanged while lighter calves traded steady to as much as $6 higher. Alberta and Saskatchewan have experienced adverse weather over the past couple of weeks; however, feedlots in southern Alberta appeared to be more aggressive for

Cattle producers have lofty new goals in the run-up to 2030.

Livestock, News

Beef sector aims for new 2030 targets

The beef operation of 2030 will have a smaller environmental footprint,better grazing ecosystems and greater efficiency

By Alexis Stockford October 1, 2020

The Canadian beef industry has new benchmarks to strive for in the next decade. The organizations involved in Canada’s National Beef Strategy — the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association, Canada Beef Breeds Council, Beef Cattle Research Council, Canada Beef, The National Cattle Feeders’ Association, Canadian Meat Council and Canadian Roundtable for Sustainable Beef — have announced a

Livestock, Markets

Klassen: Feeder market experiences fortuitous bounce

By GFM Network News, Jerry Klassen March 31, 2020

Last week, the feeder market started on a very sluggish tone. Buyers were sitting back waiting for the market to establish direction. By Friday, yearling prices were up $2-$4 compared to seven days earlier, while calves were trading $4 to as much as $8 above week-ago levels. Cow-calf producers and backgrounding operators have been holding

Livestock, Markets

Klassen: Calf prices divorce from yearling markets

By GFM Network News, Jerry Klassen February 18, 2020

Compared to last week, yearling prices were steady to as much as $4 lower depending on the region in Western Canada. Alberta packers were buying fed cattle at an average price of $252 on a dressed basis, down $6-$8 from last week and down about $20 from the last week of January. Weakness in fed

In the tight-margin business of raising cattle, a host of smaller factors is pulling down profitability – and herd numbers along with it.

Farmit Manitoba, Livestock

Cattle sector facing silent crisis

The cattle sector isn’t facing one big crisis, but rather the cumulative effect of many challenges, a new study says

By Jennifer Blair February 4, 2020

Canada’s cattle industry may not be facing another near-fatal blow like BSE, but it’s hemorrhaging all the same. And this time, it’s a death by a thousand cuts, says a new study from the heart of Canada’s cattle country. Government regulations. Global trade wars. Rising land prices and ever-higher costs. Drought. Feed shortages. Head taxes

A sampling of the burger options (Big Mac, cheeseburger and Quarter Pounder) available from McDonald’s Canada.

Beef cattle, Comment

Comment: McDonald’s and the great protein betrayal

Many will feel abandoned by a company that long-championed livestock producers 

By Sylvain Charlebois November 5, 2019

When McDonald’s makes a move, everyone pays attention. That’s just the way things are in the food-service industry. For months, rumours were swirling around McDonald’s and when it would launch a plant-based product. We now know McDonald’s will enter the plant-based game by running a pilot in Ontario. The pilot project will last 12 weeks.

Beef cattle, News

Brazil beef plants set for Chinese inspections

Amid swine fever outbreak, China seeks new protein sources

By Ana Mano September 30, 2019

Chinese health inspectors are evaluating four Brazilian beef plants as part of a push to approve new meat exporters amid an outbreak of swine fever, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters. Marfrig Global Foods SA owns one of the plants, located in the town of Várzea Grande in Mato Grosso state, according to

Daily Network News

U.S. livestock: Cattle rally, hogs slide

U.S. grains: Soybeans touch 16-month high, wheat firm on Chinese demand hopes

African swine fever risk tightens feed ingredient trade rules with Taiwan

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Latin America to defend beef production at UN food summit

Editor’s Take: Auto insurance in Manitoba is a red tape road

Time to sweat the small things

Klassen: Calf prices ratcheting higher

Beef sector aims for new 2030 targets

Klassen: Feeder market experiences fortuitous bounce

Klassen: Calf prices divorce from yearling markets

Cattle sector facing silent crisis

Comment: McDonald’s and the great protein betrayal

Brazil beef plants set for Chinese inspections

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