CCA Reports – for Apr. 5, 2010

Brad Wildeman is president of the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association reports It is with mixed emotions that I write this last column as the president of the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association. My two-year term as president has been nothing short of an incredible experience — one that allowed me the opportunity to learn much about what makes […] Read more

Who I Am And What I Believe

SPIRITED VIEW I believe in producing better products, and in turn producing higher-valued products, be it the genetics in the bulls we sell or in the beef we market I have not written for CANADIAN CATTLEMEN in a long time and having been a columnist for GRAINEWS for the past five years it’s hard to […] Read more


Backtrack Down Under

A North American view of the meat industry. Steve Kay is publisher and editor of Cattle Buyers Weekly The saddest part of this sorry tale is that Australia has inflicted more wounds on its own beef industry than anyone else’s The Australian government’s backtracking on an agreement to import beef from countries with BSE cases […] Read more

Fifth Year In A Row

We still haven’t reached bottom in cattle numbers The numbers are in and to no one’s surprise Canadian producers followed their American colleagues by shrinking the national beef herd for the fifth year in a row, this time by 1.3 per cent to 13 million head. Canadian beef cow numbers are down 3.8 per cent […] Read more



The Real Enemy

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

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


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

MARKET SUMMARY – for Mar. 8, 2010

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