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Three Cs still affecting cattle prices

By Daniel Winters January 29, 2009

“Consumers continue to choose to eat beef, but we see a change in eating habits in favour of less expensive meats.” – LYNDSAY SMITH Don’t pin your hopes on a quick recovery in the cattle market just yet. Although the Canadian cattle herd has been shrinking by leaps and bounds over the past year, volatility

Dairy cattle, News

Winnipeg Harvest gets major donation from cheese maker, dairy producers

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff January 29, 2009

Bothwell Cheese, Dairy Farmers of Manitoba and the Manitoba Bulk Milk Haulers have announced a new program to make monthly cheese donations – valued at $200,000 per year – for the next five years for distribution through Manitoba food banks. Winnipeg Harvest received its first delivery of 1,500 individually wrapped 650-g pieces of cheddar cheese

Beef cattle, Livestock, Opinion

MCEC working to find new opportunities

By Bill Uruski January 15, 2009

Keystone Processors is a step in the right direction, but it will be only a mid-size plant. It’s been another tough year in a series of tough years for the Manitoba cattle industry. There’s no way around that fact. Before the unseasonably high rainfalls hit this summer, producers were already having trouble coping with rising

Beef cattle, Other

Australian beef exports set record in 2008

January 15, 2009

Australian beef exports hit record levels in 2008 as sales to emerging markets such as Russia offset downturns in major markets including Japan and the U. S. Australia exported 957,479 tonnes of beef in 2008, up two per cent on the previous year and surpassing the previous record of 953,932 tonnes set in 2006, industry

Beef cattle, Livestock, News

Red meat sectors get new government export initiative

By Ron Friesen January 15, 2009

“We need to negotiate in four or five continents, not just one market at a time.” – Travis Toews, CCA Ottawa is giving Canada’s hog and cattle producers a belated Christmas present by boosting its efforts to expand foreign markets. The government is creating a separate body with a mandate to improve foreign market access

Beef cattle, Livestock, Other

New MCPA head wants more emphasis on agriculture

By Ron Friesen January 1, 2009

“If you’re not willing to do something, you can’t complain.” – JOE BOUCHARD, MCPA If Joe Bouchard had his way, agriculture would qualify for a federal bailout package ahead of the auto industry. Like many of his fellow producers, Bouchard believes the federal Conservative government gives agriculture, especially the cattle sector, mere lip service at

Beef cattle, Hogs, News

Britain tightens beef exports from N. Ireland

December 18, 2008

Britain has restricted beef exports coming from farms in Northern Ireland that received contaminated animal feed from Ireland, and confirmed that no pigs were affected, European Union officials said Dec. 10. British authorities had blocked beef shipments from nine pig and cattle farms and were carrying out extra tests to see if any Northern Irish

Beef cattle, Livestock, News

Winnipeg beef plant gets new corporate structure

By Ron Friesen December 11, 2008

“If they can make it work, great. We’re in favour of it.” – Martin Unrau, MCPA Manitoba’s newest beef processing project has a new name and a new corporate structure. Natural Prairie Beef Inc. and the Manitoba Cattle Enhancement Council are joining hands to form Keystone Processors Ltd., which will kill cattle and process beef

Beef cattle, Livestock, Livestock Markets

Cattle producers plan COOL survival strategy

By Ron Friesen December 11, 2008

Canadian livestock producers have finally succeeded in getting the federal government to initiate a World Trade Organization challenge to the U. S. country-of-origin meat labelling rule. Their task now is to live with COOL while the WTO case makes its long and torturous way through the system. It could take up to three years to

Beef cattle, Country Crossroads

New Manitoba food product served up

By Kim Langen December 4, 2008

One unexpected offer that came up at this year’s Manitoba Grazing School was the chance to taste a new beef sausage. Not listed on the 2008 agenda, the Saskatoon Breakfast Sausage nonetheless made an appearance Nov. 25 when plates of the fresh-cooked i tem were pas sed around to the hundreds of participants during lunch

Daily Network News

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures end lower

ICE Weekly: Trade progress, new data threaten to break canola’s price range

CBOT Weekly: Trade awaits USDA S/D report

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