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Cattle Marketings A Record Low

USDA reported Sept. 18 the cattle supply on major U. S. feedlots at 9.882 million head, or 99 per cent of a year ago. The amount of cattle placed onto feedlots during August was put at 2.110 million, or 102 per cent of last year, cattle marketed during August at 1.81 million, or 96 per
Cereals, News

Survey Says Support Up For CWB

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Support for the Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) is up according to the CWB’s most recent survey of farmers. That’s not what usually happens following the kind of controversy swirling around the marketing issue, says David Herle, a partner in the polling firm Gandalf Group that conducted the survey. “Normally in my experience when something becomes
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,
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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

Glen Nicoll’s Manitoba Roundup – for Apr. 9, 2009

GLEN NICOLL Th o s e reefer trucks hauling Canadian beef into the U. S. shouldn’t have too much trouble finding a back-haul beyond the usual loads of fresh produce, although the drought in California will be cutting the West Coast production. So far this year there has been 162,117 thousand tonnes of American beef
Country Crossroads, Hogs, Other livestock, Poultry

Core Buyers Are Loyal To Their Preferred Meats

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Martin Gooch of the George Morris Centre has posted detailed reports on consumer surveys for chicken, lamb, veal and pork. It’s the most complete set of data available and was collected with funding from the federal Agriculture Department’s National Advancing Canadian Agricultural and Agri-Food Program. For chicken, the research found that the average Canadian household
Livestock

Glen Nicoll – for Apr. 2, 2009

If the recession-affected consumer is looking at the specials in the meat cooler, they had the choice of smoked pork shoulder for $1, ground beef for $1.99, pork loin chops for $2.97 and outside round roast for $2.97. T-bones and chicken breasts were side by side, each at $6.99. The pork business has been improving.
Livestock

Glen Nicoll – for Mar. 26, 2009

Considering that BSE broke more than five years ago, the Canadian beef cow herd contraction has only sizably shown up in the last few years with 2008 showing the largest shrinkage at six per cent. The 2.5 million cows of ’03 ballooned to 5.6 million by the next year. We have been right around five
Beef cattle, Livestock

Glen Nicoll – for Mar. 5, 2009

Glen Nicoll is unable to cover livestock markets from his regular perch in the auction mart bleachers these days, but last week was able to take in the Ashern Auction Mart sale over the Internet. U. S. beef cow inventory as of the beginning of 2009 is down a million from the year earlier at

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