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Missing equipment found on a rural property southwest of Saskatoon in 2016 was valued at over $1.2 million. (Photo courtesy Saskatoon RCMP)

No prison for Saskatchewan rancher over stolen farm equipment

By Canadian Cattlemen Staff December 15, 2017

A western Saskatchewan rancher who pleaded guilty in August to charges over the discovery last year of missing tractors, balers and other farm equipment will serve time outside the prison system, Saskatoon media reported Friday. Iain Stables, now 40, was sentenced Friday in Provincial Court in Saskatoon to a conditional term of two years less […] Read more

Beef Cattle, Features

Will more cattle data really mean more cash?

Three feedlot operators offer their take on what technology has to offer

By Debbie Furber December 12, 2017

Technology has advanced so quickly during the past decade that even young feedlot operators can reminisce about times when a long day’s work at the family feedyard involved boxes of index cards, drawers of file folders and buckets full of chop. The question of the day for a panel of three producers at the 2017 […] Read more

Finishers, Livestock, Markets

Klassen: Feeder cattle market falters

By Jerry Klassen December 12, 2017

Compared to last week, western Canadian feeder cattle markets traded $3 to as much as $6 lower. Alberta feeder cattle prices appeared to move in line with major U.S. markets, which were also down $3-$5 from week-ago levels; however, minimal slippage was noted in eastern Saskatchewan and Manitoba. Weakness in deferred live and feeder cattle […] Read more

Beef Cattle, Comment, Markets

Comment: Looking ahead to 2018

By Gren Winslow December 11, 2017

I was trying to think of a word to sum up 2017, and the best I could come up with was volatile. We came into 2017 bloodied by a fall slump in prices but seem to be going out on a rising tide. Fat cattle and calf prices have been on the rise since September, […] Read more

Sustained intake of ergot contaminated feed will shut down blood supply to an animal's extremities, and over time, worsen its condition.

Beef Cattle, Cereals, Hay, Vet advice

Ergot poisoning: An ancient scourge remains a problem in modern rations

Vet Advice with Dr. Ron Clarke

By Dr. Ron Clarke December 7, 2017

The negative impacts of ergot contamination in food were recognized as early as the fifth century AD. Ergot, a plant parasite, commonly affects rye grass, but wheat, rye, barley, oats, brome, fescue, blue, timothy, western and intermediate wheatgrass and other grasses can also be infected. Environmental conditions associated with a cool wet spring followed by […] Read more

Beef Cattle, Livestock, Reuters

JBS says listing of U.S. unit remains priority

By Reuters December 7, 2017

Sao Paulo | Reuters — Brazilian meatpacker JBS SA said listing a subsidiary in the U.S. remained a priority, even as two controlling shareholders in the company remain in jail for insider trading and their role in a corruption scandal. The long-planned initial public offering of its processed food subsidiary JBS Foods International BV was […] Read more

Beef Cattle, Research

Can feeding nitrate improve efficiency and reduce methane?

Research on the Record with Reynold Bergen

By Reynold Bergen December 5, 2017

The rumen allows cattle to make highly nutritious beef out of things that humans can’t even digest. Rumen microbes have digestive enzymes that mammals don’t. This allows rumen microbes to break down complex feeds into very simple molecules, and reassemble those molecules into volatile fatty acids that the animal can absorb and use as an […] Read more

Barley, Finishers, Livestock, Markets

Klassen: Tight margins weigh on feeder cattle

By Jerry Klassen December 5, 2017

Compared to last week, western Canadian feeder cattle prices traded $5 higher to $5 lower; however, yearlings were a solid $2 to $4 lower. Negative feeding margins over the past month, along with weakness in the deferred live cattle futures, set a negative tone in the heavier weight classes. The calf market appears to be […] Read more

Cow-Calf, Forages, Nutrition

Forage quality from the perspective of 1-billion bacterial cells

Nutrition with John McKinnon

By John McKinnon December 4, 2017

It is a time of year when feedlot operators and cow-calf producers are implementing their winter feeding programs. Forage, whether it is fed as hay, stockpiled forage (i.e. barley swaths or standing corn) or silage will play a big role in the vast majority of these operations. For feedlot operations, good-quality hay is often used […] Read more

Taste-testing during a Canadian Beef Advantage Seminar in Shanghai in 2013. (Canada Beef via YouTube)

Beef Cattle, Hogs, Livestock, Markets

China to accept Canadian chilled beef, pork in pilot project

By Canadian Cattlemen Staff December 4, 2017

Exporters of Canadian beef and pork are set to get expanded access to the “massive” Chinese market through a new bilateral pilot project. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang on Monday announced a series of joint initiatives and agreements in several fields including “a pilot project for the export of Canadian chilled […] Read more

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No prison for Saskatchewan rancher over stolen farm equipment

Will more cattle data really mean more cash?

Klassen: Feeder cattle market falters

Comment: Looking ahead to 2018

Ergot poisoning: An ancient scourge remains a problem in modern rations

JBS says listing of U.S. unit remains priority

Can feeding nitrate improve efficiency and reduce methane?

Klassen: Tight margins weigh on feeder cattle

Forage quality from the perspective of 1-billion bacterial cells

China to accept Canadian chilled beef, pork in pilot project

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