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Producers To Get Help Age Verifying Cattle

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Manitoba cattle producers will get help from their own association in age verifying calves to make sure Alberta feedlots will buy them. The Manitoba Cattle Producers Association will hire a full-time field representative to travel the province and help producers age verify their cattle. “It’s responsible for a cattle producer’s association to help producers reach
Livestock

Rising Loonie Pressures Feeder Cattle Prices

Ca t t l e auction results in Manitoba during the week ended May 15 were varied. In the slaughter market, auctioneers repor ted mainly steady to stronger prices for cows and bulls. Results for feeders varied with location, with some marts enjoying strong, active trade, while others saw prices ease for all weight categories.
Beef cattle, Livestock

Glen Nicoll’s Manitoba Roundup – for May. 21, 2009

Glen Nicoll Where w e had been once surrounded by cows that were discounted in price because of an oversupply, the lack of demand had turned into $400 bred cows. That picture went fuzzy late last month when XL Foods shut down its Moose Jaw plant because of what it termed a shortage of cattle,
Livestock

Tracking The Cause Of Sudden Death

ROY LEWIS DVM Veterinarians are often asked to perform autopsies on sudden deaths when a perfectly healthy, mature animal with no previous history of illness suddenly turns up dead. This often baffles the producer as well as the veterinarian. Thankfully they are generally sporadic, but a careful autopsy will provide the answer and some possible
Livestock

Prices Slump For Heavy Cattle

Prices at Manitoba’s cattle auction marts during the week ended May 8 were steady to mixed. Strong local demand continues to boost grass weight prices, while prices for heavyweight cattle slumped. “Cattle over the 750-lb. mark, especially the 900-to 1,000-lb. animals, have really backed up over the last week,” said Rick Wright, a livestock order
Livestock

Heavy Calf, Cow Losses

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Huge livestock losses in North Dakota from heavy snow and flooding last winter show that ranchers are not immune to Mother Nature’s fury. Emily Tescher-Johnston, a livestock agent with the Ward County extension service based in Minot, North Dakota, said that a perfect storm of circumstances that began last summer led to the loss of
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Glen Nicoll’s Manitoba Roundup – for Apr. 23, 2009

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Although persistent dry conditions in the southwest corner of the province had cut back hay supplies last summer, that doesn’t seem to be the reason for an extraordinary flow of cows to the auction rings, says Heartland Virden manager Jim McArthur. He said the area’s cow herd reduction in the last year was larger than
Livestock

Higher Prices For Grass Cattle Don’t Stem Demand

The movement of cattle to the various auction marts in Manitoba has continued at a good pace, although the Good Friday holiday April 10 was expected to result in some producers holding animals back until after the Easter break. Values for cattle sold across the province continued to hold firm and in most cases improved
Livestock

Calf Survival Threatened By Late, Wet Spring

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This spring’s snow, rain and floods have severely hampered the ability of calves to survive. “These weather conditions have been a real setback for our 2009 calf crop,” says North Dakota State University Extension Service veterinarian Charlie Stoltenow. “We can expect to see an increase in scours (diarrhea) and pneumonia in young calves and dystocia
Beef cattle, Cereals, Livestock

Good Bedding Improves Calf Survival Rates

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This spring is certainly one to remember. At the Dickinson Research Extension Center, calf death loss is just more than 11 per cent, almost quadruple the typical loss of three per cent for North Dakota Beef Cattle Improvement Association members. This does not make anyone very happy. In fact, it stings harshly. However, challenges abound

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