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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

attlemen have a wide range of legitimate concerns when buying replacement bulls and birth weight tends to be near the top of the list, as it should. But statistics may not always be as reliable an indicator as one is led to believe by presumed industry standards. Many of these numbers are used to produce […] Read more

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

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

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