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Prepping for the politicians
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Prepping for the politicians

A few notes from the CCA’s semi-annual meeting

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Late last month the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association published a political wish list on behalf of the beef industry for candidates running in the federal election. You can find it on the CCA website. The week before that document came out I had a chance to hear some of the background discussions that went into setting […] Read more
Uncertainties and potential worries loom large as the 2015 calf crop's fall run begins.
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Editorial: August anxieties

There are a lot of balls in the air as we start another fall run

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If you only look at prices charts it’s a great time to be in the cattle business. It’s only when you start looking longer-term that you see plenty of reasons to be anxious for the beef industry this August. As of this issue going to press Canada is in what appears to be the final […] Read more
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Beef Cattle, Comment

Comment: Get ready for antimicrobial resistance

The feds have a plan, but there's no quick fixes to AMR

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AMR or antimicrobial resistance; the term certainly isn’t new, but it’s likely you will be hearing more about it now that Ottawa has released its Federal Action Plan on Antimicrobial Resistance and Use. Canada is also working toward endorsing a Global Action Plan by the World Health Assembly. In essence the federal government has started […] Read more
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Beef Cattle, Comment

The case of Canada’s vanishing cows

Cattle expansion plans still on hold for another year

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There were no surprises in the January 1 cattle inventory numbers released last month by Statistics Canada. Despite current prices and a general feeling of optimism bubbling through the industry, producers see no need to expand the cattle population now. We started the year with fewer beef cows (3.8 million), fewer replacement heifers (531,000) and […] Read more
Beef Cattle, Comment

Comment: The system works

Our BSE protective curtain is on show with Case 19

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Just when we thought we were slipping out from under the weight of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) it pulls us back in. I’m pretty sure every cattle producer and anyone connected with the beef industry clinched when they heard another positive cow had turned up in Alberta last month. After four years of negative tests […] Read more
Canada grade AAA beef grading stamp
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Dissenting over carcass grading yield classes

The manager of the Canadian Beef Grading Agency is not enamored with USDA yield grades

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If the stars align as predicted sometime this spring over 700 pages of regulations regarding agricultural products controlled under the new Safe Food for Canadians Act will pass through the hurdles of Canada Gazette I and II and come into force. The act itself was approved by Parliament in November but doesn’t really become empowered […] Read more
Beef Cattle, Comment

It’s all about the money

Alberta Beef Producers seeks a return of the mandatory checkoff

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After five years of doing without and a year of town hall meetings and weeks of internal discussion Alberta Beef Producers is primed to put its case for a non-refundable checkoff before the Alberta government this spring. The question will be carved into the revised five-year plan governing the ABP operations that will be presented […] Read more
cattle in a feedlot
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Sustainability is in sight

The world agrees on a definition

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As we look ahead to 2015 I imagine most of you are anticipating, or hoping, for a repeat of 2014. We can’t always see what lies ahead, but in at least one small aspect I’m pretty confident that you are going to hear the word sustainability crop up in conversations a lot more in the […] Read more
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Editorial: Truth in pricing

Canfax enhances price reporting

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With all the celebrating last month over yet another win for the anti-COOL forces at the WTO another significant bit of news may have slipped your notice. In a note to subscribers Brian Perillat and his team at Canfax finally let it be known that they are starting to collect price information on cattle sold […] Read more
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Editorial: A packer’s view of the meat world

The more access, the better

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About a week before Prime Minister Harper signed off on the Korean Free Trade agreement and released the text of the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement between Canada and the European Union, Jeff Cline was giving the Canada Beef forum in Toronto a look at how a packer sizes up his various markets. Cline started […] Read more

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