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Smaller Herd Fuels Higher Beef Prices

By Helen Popper February 11, 2010

Argentines ate more beef than ever last year as prices lagged other staples, but now a shortage of livestock is driving up steak prices and raising the spectre of tougher government controls in the market. In the rambling pens at Buenos Aires’ main cattle market, traders say the recent rise in prices was long overdue

Beef cattle, Livestock, Opinion

Should You Stay Or Should You Go?

By Kevin Hursh October 29, 2009

There’s a lot of soul searching on cow-calf operations across the country. Producers are wrestling with whether to stay in the business or cut their losses and get rid of the cows. With the fall calf run now in full swing, the immediate economic outlook has worsened. The rapid increase in the value of the

Livestock, Opinion

Ranchers’ Goal Rusts In Pieces

July 23, 2009

The fact that the machinery intended for the Ranchers Choice slaughter facility is now a rusting pile of junk (“Ranchers Choice remnants rust in field,” Co-operator, June 25, page 1) must give a great deal of satisfaction to the vested interests that so ruthlessly opposed the efforts to create the facility. My appreciation and thanks

Beef cattle, Crops, Forages, Livestock

Drought Could Sharply Thin Alberta Herd

By Rod Nickel July 9, 2009

Drought could force Alberta ranchers to thin their herds further in a desperate attempt to stay in business, the latest blow to a reeling industry. Alberta’s 1.85-million-head herd of beef cattle will likely shrink by at least 10 per cent and as much as 28 per cent this year, said Kevin Boon, vice-chairman of Alberta

Livestock, News

Don’t Become Complacent Around Livestock

By North Dakota State University March 12, 2009

Farmers and ranchers who work with livestock need to stay vigilant around those animals. “Most ranchers and farmers who have cattle and horses like working with animals and interacting with them,” said Charlie Stoltenow, an extension service veterinarian with North Dakota State University at Fargo. “The more they work with cattle and horses, the more

Beef cattle, Livestock, Other

Mexico lifts Alta. breeding cattle ban

October 30, 2008

The Canadian and Mexican governments have reached an agreement to remove Mexico’s temporary ban on imports of Alberta breeding cattle. The agreement resumes trade of all breeding cattle born after January 1999, lifting a ban the Mexican government imposed in August after Canada’s confirmation of its 14th case of BSE in a six-year-old Alberta beef

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Women who fed a nation

U.S. grains: Soybeans rise on China demand hopes; corn and wheat rebound

U.S. livestock: Hogs rebound, cattle hit upward limits

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Smaller Herd Fuels Higher Beef Prices

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Ranchers’ Goal Rusts In Pieces

Drought Could Sharply Thin Alberta Herd

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Mexico lifts Alta. breeding cattle ban

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