Daily Network News

More News →

Features

It would be very difficult for the U.S. to maintain their healthy beef export market without an imported supply of cattle from Canada.
Features, Markets

Here we go again

Tariff disputes with the U.S. are nothing new

By
For many years we have complacently assumed that American displeasure with Canada’s supply management regime for dairy and poultry production was an issue well isolated from other agricultural sectors. This perhaps was never the case, but it certainly is no longer. If the wayward and quixotic President Trump can slap punitive duties on steel and […] Read more
Beef Farmers of Ontario shared the cost with Flanagan Foodservice to launch this new local brand.
Beef Cattle, Features

Ontario’s CARVE brand beef a success

Growing appetite for high-quality local food created on opportunity for a new beef brand

By
A newly minted premium Ontario beef brand called CARVE raked in more than $3 million in sales in just over a year and has become a flagship product for Flanagan Foodservice. “We lead with it everywhere we go,” said Brad Heard, the company’s category manager for protein. “We worked hand in hand with the Beef […] Read more
In a well managed pasture, dung beetles can help reduce methane emissions.
Features, Pasture

Dung beetles make the best employees

Grazing with Steve Kenyon

By
This is how we roll. Or maybe we dig, or just hang out, but no matter how we work, we work really hard. We have a really crappy job and I would like to tell you a little bit about us. We are known as scarab beetles, commonly called dung beetles. We have a very important job […] Read more
Enright Cattle Company ships 95 per cent of their beef to high-end restaurants in Toronto, Ottawa, Kingston and smaller locations in southern Ontario.
Features, Livestock

Direct marketing is their path to full-time farming

Marketing: Enright Cattle Company is meeting the challenges of building their brand and informing their customers

By
When consumers recognize your brand, it’s a sure sign that you’re doing something right. At restaurants across southern Ontario, to see the name of one particular beef operation on the menu is a testament to the hard work of Kara and Darold Enright. “Something that we are always trying to promote to the consumers is […] Read more
Appearances are deceiving when it comes to water quality as evidenced by the sulphate levels in these 2016 samples: 1,731 mg/l in jug 1; 2,056 mg/l) in jug 2; 21 mg/l in jug 3 and 15 mg/l in jug 4.
Features, Livestock

Use caution when testing livestock water quality with hand-held meters

Study compared test results of hand-held meters to laboratory results

By
Livestock and feed specialists with the Saskatchewan Ministry of Agriculture have learned that not all methods of testing water quality are equal, especially when it comes to total dissolved solids and sulphates. Leah Clark, livestock and feed extension specialist with the Saskatchewan Ministry of Agriculture, took part in a study comparing the accuracy of water […] Read more
Drylotting cows and calves is one way to hold onto your genetics during a drought.
Beef Cattle, Features, Livestock

Culling cattle for drought

Age is not the only factor you may need to consider

By
Many ranchers who tried to feed through a drought without selling cows have said they will never do it again. You can slip too far into debt borrowing money to buy feed in a bad year. It’s often better to sell early, before feed grows short and cow condition falls. But there are ways to […] Read more
“We’re kind of at a tipping point,” says Alberta VBP+ co-ordinator, Melissa Downing.
Beef Cattle, Features, Markets

Smoothing the kinks in the sustainable beef supply chain

“The people who are selling beef…are coming to us and saying, ‘we need you to supply this.’"

By
Ken McGladrie has always watched for new programs and technologies to keep his herd moving forward. It’s no surprise, then, that like many Canadian beef producers, he was eager to take advantage of the Canadian Beef Sustainability Acceleration (CBSA) pilot. McGladrie, a commercial cow-calf producer from Wetaskiwin, Alta., became involved in the CBSA pilot through […] Read more
Steve Eby: “If I could tell the public one thing, it’s that we take transport very seriously.”
Features, Livestock

Cross Canada cattle transport — the journey and the destination count

Livestock transport is one subject for discussion at the Canadian Beef Industry Conference next week

By
With hundreds of thousands of beef cattle being transported across Canada each year, welfare during transport is a hot topic among producers, scientists, and society. Discussions around potential regulation changes regarding the amount of time cattle are on a truck, and how many hours cattle are transported without feed and water, have people all along […] Read more
Blackleg: A pasture nemesis
Features, Livestock, Vet advice

Blackleg: A pasture nemesis

Vet Advice with Dr. Ron Clarke

By
Blackleg is an acute, febrile, highly fatal disease of cattle, sheep and goats caused by Clostridium chauvoei characterized by swellings with pockets of trapped air that produce crepitation (crackling) over affected areas. Although blackleg can affect any muscle in the body, including the heart and diaphragm, heavy muscles of the front and hind limbs are […] Read more
Consult the grazing chart
Features, Livestock

Consult the grazing chart

Grazing with Steve Kenyon

By
One of the most undermanaged crops we have in North America is pasture. The reason we don’t manage it or don’t understand it is because most pasture is not bought or sold. It is usually consumed on farm. So we don’t understand the value of it. If we never see any value in it, we […] Read more

Canadian Cattlemen Presents: Depth of Field

Glacier Farmmedia Podcast

AgCanadaTV

AGCanadaTV: In case you missed it; your national ag news recap for Sept. 5, 2025

Sponsored By:
More Videos →

Latest Market News

More Market News →