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Dry conditions for the past two growing seasons could be lowering both surface and ground water quality. The province is recommending testing.

Watch your dugout water quality

Two years of dry weather has the province urging producers to take a more critical look at their dugouts

By Alexis Stockford January 27, 2020

If you’re fighting salinity in your soil, chances are you’ve got salinity in your water as well. That was one of the messages as Russell veterinarian Dr. Cathy Clemence addressed farmers in Binscarth Jan. 15. Water made its way onto the agenda during this year’s Manitoba Beef and Forage Week, a round of annual seminars

Livestock, Markets

Chinese meat packing giant locks in JBS supply

By GFM Network News, Gfm Staff January 27, 2020

The world’s biggest pork packer is poised to source additional beef, poultry and pork from the world’s biggest meat packing firm. Brazil’s JBS announced Monday it has signed a memorandum of understanding with Hong Kong-based WH Group for “supply and distribution of fresh beef, poultry and pork to the Chinese market” starting in the first

A transmission electron microscopy image of the first isolated case of the new 2019 coronavirus, as obtained by Reuters on Jan. 27, 2020. (Handout image courtesy IVDC, China CDC via Reuters)

Beef cattle, Livestock, Markets

Virus concerns add more uncertainty to cattle market

By GFM Network News, Phil Franz-Warkentin January 27, 2020

MarketsFarm — Cattle futures in Chicago dropped hard over the past few days, as mounting concerns over the new coronavirus in China triggered a broad-based selloff in global equities and commodities. While the virus adds an extra layer of uncertainty to the North American cattle market, expectations for solid beef demand should remain supportive for

CME May 2020 feeder cattle with 20-, 50- and 100-day moving averages. (Barchart)

Beef cattle, Livestock, Markets

Klassen: Large feedlot inventories lower feeder demand

By GFM Network News, Jerry Klassen January 21, 2020

Compared to last week, western Canadian yearling markets traded $2-$3 on either side of unchanged and mid-weight feeders (600-850 lbs.) were steady to $2 lower, but calves under 600 lbs. were unchanged to as much as $10 lower. Prices were quite variable across the Prairies, which made the market hard to define. The market appeared

Beef cattle, Hogs, Livestock

Amended CUSMA pact includes anti-COOL clause

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News January 4, 2020

The new Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA), a free trade deal set to replace NAFTA, includes language meant to block any future bids at a trade-disrupting country-of-origin labeling (COOL) law. The new clause would, in theory, checkmate a move made last summer by some Democrat members of the U.S. House of Representatives to have a new North

CME February 2020 live cattle with Bollinger (20,2) bands. (Barchart)

Livestock, Markets

U.S. livestock: CME cattle, hogs relatively steady on trade deal hopes

By GFM Network News, P.J. Huffstutter December 16, 2019

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. cattle futures remained relatively steady on Monday but funds continued to hold their long positions in anticipation of a surge of demand for U.S. meat after the U.S.-China “Phase 1” trade agreement is finalized, traders said. U.S. lean hog futures inched upward, rising for a third session on the same

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks during Question Period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Dec. 11, 2019. (Photo: Reuters/Blair Gable)

Markets

Farmers hit by trade disputes should be helped faster, Trudeau says

By GFM Network News, Reuters December 13, 2019

Ottawa | Reuters — Canada’s agriculture department should move more quickly to help farmers harmed by protectionist measures imposed by other nations, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Friday. Canadian farmers are caught up in a trade and diplomatic dispute between Ottawa and Beijing. In a formal letter of instruction to Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau, Trudeau

Total Brazilian beef exports in January to October 2019 were 1.5 million tonnes.

Livestock, Livestock Markets

Chinese demand pushes Brazil beef prices to record high

A significant number of local processors can now export to China

By Roberto Samora December 10, 2019

Reuters – Brazil’s famous barbecue is getting more expensive as Chinese demand is increasingly swallowing up the country’s beef supply, pushing Brazilian cattle prices to a record high. China’s hunger for foreign meat has shot up as an outbreak of African swine fever has decimated its domestic pig population and has sent it looking for substitutes. Chinese imports of

A colourized low-temperature electron micrograph of a cluster of E. coli bacteria. Individual bacteria in this photo are oblong and coloured brown. (Eric Erbe photo and colourization by Christopher Pooley courtesy ARS/USDA)

Beef cattle, Livestock, Markets

Ryding-Regency’s federal beef packing licenses cancelled

By GFM Network News, Gfm Staff December 2, 2019

Citing “false or misleading information” given them during an E. coli probe, food safety officials have now permanently pulled the federal slaughter, processing and export licenses for Toronto’s Ryding-Regency Meat Packers and related companies. The cancellation, announced Monday, indefinitely prolongs what was already described as “critical processing capacity shortage” for the province’s cattle producers, leaving

Beef cattle, Livestock, Markets

EU lawmakers clear U.S. beef imports but fault U.S. tariffs

By GFM Network News, Philip Blenkinsop November 28, 2019

Brussels | Reuters — European Union lawmakers approved an increase in U.S. beef imports to the EU on Thursday, a move likely to ease transatlantic tensions. But they also criticized tariffs imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump on metal imports and a threat he has made to target EU cars and car parts. The European

Daily Network News

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Tag Archives Beef

Watch your dugout water quality

Chinese meat packing giant locks in JBS supply

Virus concerns add more uncertainty to cattle market

Klassen: Large feedlot inventories lower feeder demand

Amended CUSMA pact includes anti-COOL clause

U.S. livestock: CME cattle, hogs relatively steady on trade deal hopes

Farmers hit by trade disputes should be helped faster, Trudeau says

Chinese demand pushes Brazil beef prices to record high

Ryding-Regency’s federal beef packing licenses cancelled

EU lawmakers clear U.S. beef imports but fault U.S. tariffs

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