This last week saw 2,260 head through the ring at Heartland Livestock in Virden, Man., with 90 per cent of those cattle being feeders and 10 per cent calves. Forty per cent of cattle went to southern Alberta buyers, 30 per cent stayed local, 20 per cent headed east and 10 per cent to the […] Read more

Auction mart report for the week of May 10, 2024
Regional market analysis, courtesy of Heartland Livestock in Virden. Man.

The cattle market, as I see it: A correction or a bump in the road?
What does the discovery of avian flu in dairy cattle mean for beef cattle prices?
When any market gets insanely high, regardless of the commodity — cattle, canola or Bitcoin — it only takes a light whisper on the wind of something negative to get a knee-jerk reaction. The Achilles’ heel of this market is some sort of apocalypse, and everyone is on the lookout for what it could possibly […] Read more