Beef Cattle, Features

Young beef producer makes time for learning

Posted 5 days ago by Heather Smith Thomas

Beef Cattle, Markets

McMillin: Domestic, global beef demand strong

Posted on August 12, 2019 by Debbie McMillin

Livestock, News

Research solidifies cattle’s role in soil health

Posted on July 31, 2019 by Barbara Duckworth

Must Reads

• Beef Cattle, Livestock

  Improved design applied to cattle handling equipment

  For three weeks in December 2018, I filled in at a former practice. There were a few really positive things…

  July 30, 2019

• Beef Cattle, News

  Cattlemen’s Young Leaders’ semi-finalists chosen

  Eleven Albertans are among the 24 semi-finalists for this year’s Cattlemen’s Young Leaders program. The program pairs 16 young people…

  July 29, 2019

• Livestock, News

  

  VIDEO: Stock dogs. Man’s best friend for moving livestock

  At last week’s Ag in Motion, stock…

  July 25, 2019

• Cereals, Forages, Livestock, Pasture

  Nitrate toxicity poses risk to cattle

  Haying and grazing season is underway and due to dry conditions more of the forage supply is consisting of small…

  July 24, 2019

• Livestock, News

  Regions eligible for livestock tax deferrals released

  Drought in Western Canada and Quebec has prompted the federal government to release an initial list of regions eligible for…

  July 22, 2019

• Features, Livestock, Pasture

  Kenyon: How intensely should you graze cattle?

  For years, I referred to the type of grazing that I do as intensive cell grazing. I am not sure…

  July 12, 2019

Hogs, Livestock, Reuters

Philippines checks for swine fever as pig deaths rise

By Reuters 8 hours ago

Manila | Reuters — The Philippines has set up a crisis management team to determine if the deadly African swine fever virus has reached the country after officials detected a rise in pig deaths in some areas. The Bureau of Animal Industry had reported an increased mortality of pigs “raised by farmers in their backyards” […] Read more

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Livestock, Markets, Reuters

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures up on larger-than-expected weekly slaughter

By Julie Ingwersen 10 hours ago

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures closed higher on Monday after U.S. government data showed last week’s slaughter was bigger than the previous week’s, despite a fire that shuttered a Kansas beef plant. The U.S. Department of Agriculture estimated the weekly U.S. cattle slaughter through Saturday at 651,000 head, up from […] Read more

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Livestock, Markets, Reuters

U.S. livestock: CME hogs limit down on demand concerns

By Mark Weinraub 4 days ago

Chicago | Reuters — CME lean hog futures fell sharply on Friday, with the most-active October contract notching a limit-down move as traders worried that seasonal growth in supplies will outstrip demand. Weakness in the cash market also spilled over into the futures, traders said. The demand concerns stemmed from uncertainty about potential purchases from […] Read more

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Dairy Cattle, Livestock

Dairy farmers to get direct cash payment as trade compensation

By John Greig 4 days ago

Canadian dairy farmers will be getting direct cash compensation after the government gave up dairy market access to other countries in recent trade deals. The compensation follows promises by the Trudeau government — and the Harper government before it — that dairy farmers would be compensated in some form for the loss of market. Why […] Read more

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Livestock, Markets, Reuters

U.S. livestock: Hog futures sink to five-month low

By Mark Weinraub 4 days ago

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) hog futures fell to a five-month low on Thursday, pressured by big supplies that overwhelmed any optimism about news that China made its biggest purchases of U.S. pork in seven weeks, traders said. The world’s largest pork consumer bought 10,211 tonnes of U.S. pork between Aug. 2-8 […] Read more

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Beef Cattle, Features

Young beef producer makes time for learning

Manitoba producer carves out time 
for mentorship program between 
family, farm and off-farm job

By Heather Smith Thomas 5 days ago

Tyler Fewings is a busy man, juggling family, work and farm responsibilities. He also juggles time zones half the year, after Saskatchewan and Manitoba fall out of sync in the spring. For the last year he’s also had another ball in the air, as he’s focused on improving his financial and business management skills. Fewings […] Read more

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Livestock, Markets, Reuters

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures mixed, hogs firm

By Mark Weinraub 5 days ago

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) cattle futures were mixed on Wednesday, with deferred months mostly higher on bargain buying after hitting multiyear lows on Tuesday. But nearby live cattle contracts continued to weaken. The front-month contract hit its lowest level since October 2016 on expectations that the shutdown of a major beef […] Read more

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Dairy Cattle, Livestock, Reuters

Indian court acquits six in cow vigilante case

By Mayank Bhardwaj 6 days ago

New Delhi | Reuters — An Indian court on Wednesday acquitted six men of the killing of a 55-year-old Muslim dairy farmer, citing lack of evidence, raising questions over the prosecution’s failure to make its case despite videos of a crowd beating him in the street. The 2017 attack on Pehlu Khan and his two […] Read more

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Livestock, Markets, Reuters

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures limit down again on Tyson fire

By Mark Weinraub August 13, 2019

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) cattle futures plunged to multiyear lows on Tuesday, with some contract months for both live cattle and fed cattle ending at their daily trading limits for the second day in a row. Traders said the market continued to weigh the impact of a fire at a key […] Read more

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Beef Cattle, Markets

McMillin: Domestic, global beef demand strong

The Markets with Deb McMillin, from the August 2019 issue of Canadian Cattlemen

By Debbie McMillin August 12, 2019

Fed cattle It’s uncommon to see fed cattle prices pick up through the month of July. However, this has been the case in the last two weeks in Alberta. Beef demand both domestically and globally has been strong and sellers continue to be current in their front-end supply, which has created some leverage. The mid-July […] Read more

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