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Banquet A “Rare” Treat

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“If you don’t eat them, you won’t know what makes them so special.” – PAM HEATH Eating a meal that includes animals on an “endangered” or “at risk” list can be a misunderstood affair. Nesbitt-area farmer Pam Heath knows that very well. She’s Manitoba’s co-ordinator for Rare Breeds Canada, a group trying to bring back
Beef cattle, Cereals, Livestock

Good Bedding Improves Calf Survival Rates

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This spring is certainly one to remember. At the Dickinson Research Extension Center, calf death loss is just more than 11 per cent, almost quadruple the typical loss of three per cent for North Dakota Beef Cattle Improvement Association members. This does not make anyone very happy. In fact, it stings harshly. However, challenges abound
Livestock

Marketings Rebound As Weather Improves

As l i g h t improvement in weather conditions allowed for some aggressive marketings of cattle at Manitoba’s auction markets during the week ended April 3. Values were generally steady with the previous week’s prices, with demand for grass-weight cattle extremely strong. Some of the cattle marketed in the province were holdovers from the
Livestock

Spring Snowstorm Hurts U. S. Cattle

Cattle producers last week were digging out from a rare springtime blizzard that dumped more than a foot of snow on March 28 and 29 that killed cattle and stressed others from the Texas panhandle to southwest Kansas. Cattle feedlot operators worked long hours during the weekend clearing paths so that cattle could be fed.
Livestock

Marketings Drop As Cattle Storm-Stayed

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Marketings of cattle at Manitoba auction markets in the first part of last week were described as good, but any sales from Wednesday, March 18 forward to Friday, March 27, were pretty thin because of the winter storm that hit the province. “Marketings in the first part of the week started off OK, but when
Beef cattle, Livestock

U. S. Cattle Fattening Up As Beef Sales Slow

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“The real problem is demand.” U. S. cattle have been gaining weight instead of earning money for producers these days, but beef sales should speed up during the spring grilling season. The average weight of steers and heifers set monthly records in January, and February, and remained large in March, according to the Livestock Marketing
Cereals, News, Oilseeds

Consumers Still Fret About Grain Prices

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Uncertainty over U. S. spring plantings of corn and soybeans and recent weakness in the dollar have brought a resurgence in grain prices that spells fresh headaches for consumers and food makers this year. The commodities, at the base of a food chain that feeds into hundreds of supermarket products, from oils to starches to
Beef cattle, Livestock

U. S. Ranchers Eye More EU Access For Beef

U. S. ranchers who raise cattle without growth hormones may gain more access to European markets if the United States and European Union settle a beef trade dispute that has lasted more than 20 years, a U. S. industry spokesman said March 16. But the size of the additional market access has not been determined,
Hogs, News

Arrests For Banned Pig Drug In China

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Fifteen people in China’s southern province of Guangzhou were arrested for selling pigs that had been fed banned drugs to make their meat leaner, Xinhua news agency reported March 19. The pigs had been fed ractopamine, a drug that is used as a feed additive to promote leanness in pigs. The feed additive Paylean, a

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