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Manitoba Beef Producers is meeting with members throughout the province in the coming weeks.

Manitoba Beef Producers hits the road

MBP expects predation to crop up again during its annual district meetings

By Alexis Stockford October 29, 2018

The Manitoba Beef Producers is checking the herd. District meetings launched Oct. 22 in the Interlake this year. MBP will spend the next month meeting with members in each of its 14 districts, ending in Oak Lake Nov. 15. Predation is once again expected to feature prominently in discussions held north of the Trans-Canada Highway. Herd

Brian Lemon of Manitoba Beef Producers is pleased that the federal government ratified

Beef cattle, Local news

Manitoba Beef Producers pleased with CPTPP ratification

MPB general manager Brian Lemon says being in the original six is very important

By Alexis Stockford October 26, 2018

Manitoba Co-operator reporter Alexis Stockford spoke to Manitoba Beef Producers general manager Brian Lemon at AgEx in Brandon about the recent ratification of theComprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) trade agreement. Below is the audio file of that conversation.

Beef cattle, Livestock

Meeting the mark for sustainable beef

CRSB supporters hope its newly unveiled logos, trademarks and certification marks may help draw in the consumer once they start appearing on product labels and advertisements

By Alexis Stockford October 9, 2018

The Canadian Roundtable for Sustainable Beef (CRSB) hopes consumers will soon be on the lookout for its new logos. The organization launched its trademarks and logos, along with rules on how to use them, to the market Sept. 20. The logos and trademarks may soon be appearing on company advertisements, promotional materials or specific products

Rains early this week are too late to change the outlook for this year’s crop, but farmers will be looking for more to  help pastures, dugouts and soil moisture levels recover  for next year.

Local news, News, Weather

Tiptoeing around the dreaded ‘D’ word

The word ‘drought’ is being tossed around in Manitoba’s agriculture industry, but the province isn’t ready to go there just yet

By Alexis Stockford September 1, 2018

Most of Manitoba is dry for the second year running, but is it a drought? The term fits, according to AAFC. The agency’s national drought monitor says most of eastern Manitoba and the Interlake is in moderate or severe drought, along with land stretching through southern Manitoba from the Ontario border and well into Westman.

MBFI researchers recommend giving paddocks at least 75 days of growth between grazings.

Livestock

Adapting the adaptive grazing program

Planned grazing must be flexible enough to fit real life, experts say

By Alexis Stockford August 20, 2018

The term may be “planned” grazing, but the plan may not survive contact with the field. That was the message that provincial livestock specialists Pam Iwanchysko and Jane Thornton recently made during a planned grazing workshop at the Manitoba Beef and Forage Initiatives site. “There’s no silver bullet in any grazing system,” Thornton said. “I

Parklands-area rancher Ben Fox has served as president of Manitoba Beef Producers since February 2017.

Local news, News, Other

Manitoba Beef Producers president resigns to seek federal nomination

Ben Fox is a second farm leader to throw his hat in the ring for Dauphin-Swan River-Neepawa

By Lorraine Stevenson August 17, 2018

A second prominent farm leader has stepped down to make a bid for federal politics, and for the same party ticket in the same riding. Manitoba Beef Producers president Ben Fox, who ranches near Dauphin, stepped down from his post August 7, announcing his plans to seek the Conservative Party of Canada nomination for MP

Calvin Vaags (far right) poses with some of his senior and front office staff in front of True North Foods north of Carman. The only federally certified slaughter plant in Manitoba,the facility is expected to add the USDA’s check of approval in the near future.

Beef cattle, Livestock, Local news

Made-in-Manitoba meat to head south of the border

True North Foods is already Manitoba’s only federally certified slaughter option for beef. Now, it says USDA approval is imminent

By Alexis Stockford August 13, 2018

True North Foods in Carman might be days away from federal certification in the U.S. Owner and operator, Calvin Vaags, says they are expecting their USDA certification for beef to be finalized any day now. The milestone would open up the American market for the facility, which is currently the only CFIA certified slaughter plant

Livestock Markets, Markets

Few cattle are on offer to soak up increases in prices

Market watchers haven’t yet seen a ‘wall of cattle’ arrive

By Terry Fries July 27, 2018

With few cattle moving through the system it’s tough to get a real test on prices, but Mike Nernberg of Winnipeg Livestock Sales said small numbers were moving in Alberta. With 50 yearlings sold earlier this week, the count was too small to provide a solid indication of prices, but 900-lb. heifers sold around the

Beef producers are celebrating the end of a U.S. TB testing requirement.

Livestock

Manitoba scores a win on U.S. TB testing

The USDA will no longer require Manitoba beef and bison producers  to test for TB before export. So what does that mean for the industry?

By Alexis Stockford July 16, 2018

As trade tensions rise between the U.S. and Canada, Manitoba’s beef industry is celebrating the removal of a long-standing irritant. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has rolled back testing requirements on bovine tuberculosis for breeding stock, an issue that producers say has hovered over their industry since 1997, when the CFIA downgraded Manitoba’s TB status.

Manitoba’s hay crop has rebounded, but not fully recovered, from a slow start to the season.

Forages, Livestock

Spring forage woes linger for first cut

Producers were glad to see forage jump in June, but many first-cut reports are still coming up short

By Alexis Stockford June 22, 2018

Manitoba’s first forage cut is still showing the signs of a slow start this spring. The Manitoba Forage and Grassland Association observed lower alfalfa yields compared to last year in some regions. John McGregor, co-ordinator for the MFGA Green Gold program, says stands in eastern Manitoba were three inches shorter on average, coming in at

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