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Food scientist says farmers are leaders in nutrition

Farmers and ranchers are feeding the world, but misconceptions about red meat and sustainability are holding them back

By Melissa Jeffers-Bezan February 20, 2025

Anneline Padayachee often finds herself amazed at the work farmers and ranchers do. “It’s an amazing product, what you guys produce,” she said while presenting at the banquet of the Western Canada Conference on Soil Health and Grazing in Edmonton, Alta., on December 11, 2024. Padayachee is a food scientist and nutritionist from Melbourne, Australia. […] Read more

News, Purely Purebred

Canadian Junior Red Angus launches new program

Purely Purebred, news from the February 2025 issue of Canadian Cattlemen

By Mike Millar February 20, 2025

New in 2024, the Canadian Red Angus Promotion Society invited junior Red Angus members from across Canada who are showing Canadian registered Red Angus females to apply for the program. The society set up three regions within Canada and awarded jackets to the winner in each region. To qualify, juniors could accumulate points at 4-H […] Read more

Markets, Reuters

U.S. livestock: CME lean hog futures fall on profit-taking

By Reuters, Tom Polansek February 19, 2025

Chicago Mercantile Exchange lean hog futures dropped on Wednesday, as traders booked profits following recent gains and as pork cutout prices tumbled.

Comment/Columns, Depth of Field

VIDEO: Depth of Field Extras

By Kelly Sidoryk February 19, 2025

Aug. to Dec. 2024 | Jan. to June 2024 | Aug. to Dec. 2023 | Jan. to June 2023 | Aug. to Dec. 2022 Listen to the Depth of Field podcast on YouTube or Apple. February 2025: ‘Natural laws’ of mindset and decision-making (read column) January 2025: Strategic planning in the new year (read column) […] Read more

cattle and a rancher on a horse in a pasture

CCA reports, News

Canadian Cattle Association advocates for beef producers through tariff uncertainty

CCA Reports, from the March 2025 issue of Canadian Cattlemen

By Nathan Phinney February 19, 2025

There is no such thing as a quiet time in the cattle industry, but it feels like the first part of 2025 has been busier than other years. The days leading up to and immediately after President Trump’s inauguration were intense as I juggled my farm responsibilities with media interview requests and meetings to discuss […] Read more

Comment

Comment: Stress, health and the bovine brain

By Lisa Guenther February 19, 2025

Recently, I listened to an audio book, When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress by Gabor Maté, a Canadian physician who’s built a career studying the effects of trauma on health. Maté was born to Jewish parents in 1944 in Nazi-occupied Hungary, and a small part of the book reflects on his […] Read more

Livestock, Reuters

USDA will not ban cattle imports from Mexico over latest screwworm case, agency says

By Reuters, Tom Polansek February 18, 2025

The U.S. Department of Agriculture will not restrict cattle imports from Mexico after another discovery of a damaging pest called New World screwworm in a cow south of the border, the agency said on Tuesday.

Beef Cattle, Livestock, Markets

U.S. livestock: Feeder cattle rise on renewed New World screwworm concerns

By Geralyn Wichers February 18, 2025

Chicago Mercantile Exchange feeder cattle ended the day stronger as another case of New World screwworm was found in Mexico.

cattle in a dry pasture in Alberta under a blue sky

Beef Cattle, Disasters, Livestock

Drought may be new normal for beef producers

Producers talk shop on how they’ve been getting through years of drought

By Melissa Jeffers-Bezan February 18, 2025

The 2020s did come in with a roar, but not the kind people hoped for, as drought has plagued much of Western Canada since 2021. The pastures were dry across the Prairies, the grass brittle, more brown than green. Dugouts ran dry and in some areas, hay production was about a quarter of normal. Water […] Read more

Beef Cattle, Livestock, Markets

Klassen: Feeder market recovers on strong demand

By Jerry Klassen February 18, 2025

For the week ending February 15, Western Canadian feeder cattle markets traded steady to five dollars higher on average compared to seven days earlier. The market has recovered after the recent stretch of adverse weather and the U.S. tariff threat in early February.

U.S. grains: Soybean futures set two-week high on US weather worry, soyoil rally

Alberta Crop Report: Rains in the south, dryness in the north

Agriculture ministers agree to AgriStability changes

Daily Network News

U.S. grains: Soybean futures set two-week high on US weather worry, soyoil rally

Alberta Crop Report: Rains in the south, dryness in the north

Agriculture ministers agree to AgriStability changes

Food scientist says farmers are leaders in nutrition

Canadian Junior Red Angus launches new program

U.S. livestock: CME lean hog futures fall on profit-taking

VIDEO: Depth of Field Extras

Canadian Cattle Association advocates for beef producers through tariff uncertainty

Comment: Stress, health and the bovine brain

USDA will not ban cattle imports from Mexico over latest screwworm case, agency says

U.S. livestock: Feeder cattle rise on renewed New World screwworm concerns

Drought may be new normal for beef producers

Klassen: Feeder market recovers on strong demand

Canadian Cattlemen Presents: Depth of Field

Blogs

Cows ain’t coal

AgCanadaTV

AGCanadaTV: In case you missed it; your national ag news recap for July 18, 2025

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