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The Real Enemy

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A North American view of the meat industry. Steve Kay is publisher and editor of Cattle Buyers Weekly Beef demand is unlikely to improve this year from 2009. At best, it will stabilize Prime uts With the U. S. beef industry under constant attack, it’s sometimes hard to identify the real enemy. Is it the […] Read more
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Brad Wildeman is president of the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association reports How times flies! During the past two years, I have had the opportunity to write about several issues of critical importance to the cattle industry. Most of the issues required swift and short-term solutions. Unfortunately, we continue to wait for many of these solutions to […] Read more
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Purely Purebred continued

Genome Scan with 50,000 markers (HD WGS). This new scan was developed by AGI, a subsidiary of the American Angus Association , the University of Missouri, Iowa State University and IGENITY, a division of Merial. The New Young Ranchers Round Table was a huge success — Canada had the opportunity to participate in the International […] Read more
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Purely Puerbred continued

continued from previous story Manitoba Charolais, Simmental, Limousin, Angus and Hereford associations all hold their AGMs on the same day at the Royal Oak Inn in breakout meetings and then gather together for an evening banquet with speakers and entertainment. The pooling of the different associations allows them to share the costs and the good […] Read more
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MARKET SUMMARY – for Mar. 8, 2010

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Fed Cattle Over the past few weeks the Canadian fed cattle market responded positively to the slide in the Canadian dollar and bad weather south of the border. Locally, heavy carcass weights delayed packer lift times and beef movement grew sluggish, but those winter storms in the U. S. gave life to the cash market. […] Read more
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with Gerald Klassen

The Canadian dollar has been under pressure over the past couple of weeks leading up to our deadline for this issue. Strength in the U. S. greenback was the main reason for the softer Canadian dollar. There are many factors that influence the Canadian dollar on the world market. Sometimes the loonie moves in line […] Read more
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CCA REPORTS – for Feb. 8, 2010

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Brad Wildeman is president of the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association As I’m sure you’re aware, there’s been a lot of back and forth from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) with regards to delisting bar code tags and the deadline to do so — as it has now been postponed. Judging by the number of phone […] Read more
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Goodbye George

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Alberta’s controversial ag minister is replaced In January Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach dropped his controversial agriculture minister George Groeneveld from cabinet. Normally the changing of an agriculture minister wouldn’t warrant comment. In today’s world one minister is much like another. Each leaves a small mark on the face of the industry they watch over on […] Read more
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Genetics, The Crossroad Of Change

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David P. Price is a consulting nutritionist specializing in feedlot and range cattle As a kid growing up in the ’50s, cattle buyers were looked upon with awe for their clairvoyant vision. Through subtle observation a cattle buyer was believed to be able to tell most everything about cattle. To be fair, the better ones […] Read more

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