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Bred Cows, Lighter Heifers In Demand

Ca t t l e marketings to auction yards in Manitoba experienced a small decline during the week ended March 26. Activity at the auctions was seen being on the lighter side over the next week or two given the upcoming Good Friday/Easter weekend. The implementation of spring road restrictions was also expected to make
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Tight Canadian Supplies Threaten U. S. Packer

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Shrinking cattle supplies in Canada and the U. S. Northwest could leave the JBS-USA packing plant in Hyrum, Utah, vulnerable to closure, a Canadian meat market analyst said March 26. The plant is one of three in the U. S. Northwest that rely on cattle from Alberta and Saskatchewan to supplement U. S. suppl ies,
Crops

Noxious Or Necessary?

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Phosphorus is not an evil pollutant – in fact it is a foundational building block for the DNA and RNA of all living things, even viruses, and is absolutely necessary for plants to capture energy of the sun through photosynthesis. “A reporter asked me a year ago, ‘Is there a substitute for phosphorus?’” said Flaten.
Cereals, Livestock, News

Rice Production Plan Could Be Controversial

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“If you grew a quarter section of this stuff, on a hot day in July the area for miles would smell like a Polish sausage factory.” Scientists at the Cereal Research Centre in Winnipeg are refusing to comment on reports that they have developed a winter-hardy variety of rice suitable for production on the Canadian
Beef cattle, Livestock, Opinion

An Alternative Solution To The Cattle Crisis

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I suggest we have been suckered into export dependency and are now trapped on a treadmill of keeping more cattle to make up for declining margins. Many people have been pondering the question of whether there is a future for beef production in Canada. We are continually told that there is light at the end
Livestock

Heavier Weights Mean Lighter Prices

Ca t t l e marketings to auction yards in Manitoba held fairly steady during the week ended March 19, al though values for the heavier classes of animals weakened off. The Canadian dollar’s attempt to move to parity with the U. S. greenback was viewed as an undermining price influence. “During the previous week,
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Boost Lunch But Cut Junk Food: U. S. Senator

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The U. S. government would launch an all-out ban on selling junk food at school under a key Senate chairman’s proposal, but funding for school lunch and child nutrition programs would grow by only half as much as the White House proposed. Senator Blanche Lincoln, chairman of the Agriculture Committee, proposed a $4.5-billion increase over
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Doha Trade Talks Not At Their Expected Stage

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India’s minister of commerce and industry said March 19 that progress in concluding global trade talks was behind schedule but that it was up to political leaders to decide if they can meet their own yearend deadline for a deal. Anand Sharma said the Doha round of global trade talks was ongoing but “painstakingly slow.”
Livestock, News

Anaplasmosis Intensifies In Southeastern Manitoba

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“It’s not a food safety issue.” “It’s not a food safety issue.” – Dr. Lynn Bates, Cfia Canada’s largest anaplasmosis outbreak in more than a quarter-century continues to spread in southeastern Manitoba. Eleven infected cattle herds have been found in a hot spot within the Rural Municipality of Stuartburn near the Canada-U. S. border. Another
Livestock

Loonie Weighs On Heavier Animals

Marketings of cattle at auction yards in Manitoba during the latest week held fairly steady. Values for the cattle marketed during the week ended March 12 were little changed overall from the previous week to slightly lower for heavier-weight animals. “The exception to the prices were grass cattle in the under-700-pound weight category, which were

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