(Photo courtesy Canada Beef Inc.)

Feed barley bids rangebound in Western Canada

CNS Canada –– Prairie feed barley prices continue to hang tough in March, locked into a range established early this year. “We’re seeing a lot of bids in and around $205” per tonne, said Allen Pirness, a trader for Market Place Commodities at Lethbridge. Bids had been hitting around $210 per tonne, for example, on



Irish cattle chow down on Canadian corn

Three-quarters of corn exports this year have headed for Ireland

Canada’s bountiful corn harvest is flowing across the Atlantic into feed rations for Ireland’s cattle herd, even as exporters struggle to move other crops through the bottlenecked Canadian transportation system. Canada, which was a net corn importer until recent years, reaped a record 14.2-million-tonne corn crop in 2013. Most of the crop stays where it