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VIDEO: Producer feedback built into design of Highline’s TMR mixers

By Canadian Cattlemen Staff August 23, 2024

Depending on the size of your cattle operation, the value that a TMR mixer can bring for you and your herd may be worth a closer look. In this video, field editor Melissa Jeffers-Bezan talks with Claude Rouault with Highline Manufacturing about its line of feed mixer offerings, getting the optimal ration for your animal, […] Read more

Cattle in an Iowa feedlot. A new program aims to reward beef producers for investing in genetics, while also boosting consumer demand.

Beef Cattle, Marketing

New U.S. grid premium highlights genetic merit of Angus cattle

A packer is working with the American Angus Association to reward Angus producers breeding cattle with high genetic merit scores

By Melissa Jeffers-Bezan August 22, 2024

For cattle producers in the United States, focusing on their genetics just got a lot easier. In early May, National Beef Packing Co., in collaboration with the American Angus Association, announced new premiums for cattle based on their genetic merit scorecards. The premiums use a U.S. Premium Beef value-based grid which previously rewarded cattle that […] Read more

Beef Cattle, Livestock

VIDEO: ‘Go slow to go fast’ when cattle handling

By Canadian Cattlemen Staff August 21, 2024

At Ag in Motion earlier this summer, Canadian Cattlemen editor Lisa Guenther took in the cattle handling equipment demonstrations at the farm show site. Here, she speaks with Gus Vigier with Tuff Livestock Equipment about low-stress cattle handling techniques and some of the safety features designed into its equipment.

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VIDEO: How beef cattle operations can benefit from a TMR mixer

By Canadian Cattlemen Staff August 21, 2024

According to Alan Vaage, ruminant nutritionist for Jaylor, the biggest problem with feed supply in beef cattle production is wastage as it can be selectively eaten. By Vaage’s estimate, a TMR mixer can save up to 20-30 per cent in forage use, or even higher for some operations. But it’s not just about the cost […] Read more

Calves waiting their turn to enter the Stettler Auction Mart in Alberta. Price insurance covers market risk from futures, currency and basis.

Beef Cattle, Marketing

Managing risk when marketing beef cattle

Understanding price insurance, the risk it covers and how it compares to other options will allow you to draft a better risk management strategy

By Melissa Jeffers-Bezan August 14, 2024

For the past year, cattle prices have remained strong in Canada and look to stay that way in 2024.However, this isn’t set in stone and the market can be quick to change, as producers saw in March 2024 as avian influenza was first detected in dairy cattle in the U.S., introducing risk into a red-hot […] Read more

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Klassen: Feeder market holds value amid economic uncertainty

By Jerry Klassen August 13, 2024

Overall, the calf market appeared to be more sensitive to the weakness in the deferred live cattle futures while buyers of yearlings were focused on securing ownership. Ideas are that yearling supplies are down from year-ago levels and scarcity factor is driving the bullish enthusiasm.

Beef Cattle, Hogs, Livestock, Markets, Reuters

U.S. livestock: CME cattle fall on rallying corn prices

By Heather Schlitz August 12, 2024

Chicago | Reuters – Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) cattle futures turned lower on Monday as corn futures rallied following the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s supply and demand report that lowered corn ending stocks, traders said. Meanwhile, hog futures were mixed as bargain buying counterbalanced seasonal price pressure. CME most-active October feeder cattle FCU24 closed down 2.05 cents at […] Read more

Beef cattle graze on a pasture north of Ninette, in western Manitoba on Canada Day 2024. PHOTO: Alexis Stockford

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National Beef Strategy celebrates gains

By Alexis Kienlen August 9, 2024

The Canadian Beef Advisors, comprised of national beef organizations, is celebrating achieving many of the goals in the 2020-24 National Beef Strategy.

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Klassen: Feeder rally stalls

By Jerry Klassen August 6, 2024

For the week ending August 3, Western Canadian feeder cattle prices were relatively unchanged from seven days earlier. Strong buying interest continued on yearlings straight off grass; however, the “just get’em” type orders that were evident a week earlier now had limits. More cattle will come available in August and buyers are being more patient to see how the market develops.

Beef Cattle, Livestock, Reuters

China shuts cattle farm after anthrax outbreak, five human infections

By Reuters August 6, 2024

China's eastern Shandong province reported five people were infected with anthrax and a beef cattle farm was shut after an outbreak was discovered in the agricultural province.

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VIDEO: Producer feedback built into design of Highline’s TMR mixers

New U.S. grid premium highlights genetic merit of Angus cattle

VIDEO: ‘Go slow to go fast’ when cattle handling

VIDEO: How beef cattle operations can benefit from a TMR mixer

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China shuts cattle farm after anthrax outbreak, five human infections

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