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Lethbridge College to set up farm BRM curriculum

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One of the first initiatives to be set up in Lethbridge College’s new agribusiness program will be a business risk management curriculum, drafted in a new partnership with the province’s cattle feeders association. The college and Alberta Cattle Feeders Association announced Wednesday they’ll jointly develop programming to be “offered in a variety of delivery modes […] Read more
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Beef Cattle, Hogs, Livestock, Markets, Reuters

U.S. livestock: CME live cattle bounce with beef prices

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Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle closed higher on Wednesday, lifted by short-covering stirred by the morning’s wholesale beef price rebound, traders said. February live cattle closed up 0.65 cent per pound, to 153.7 cents, and April 0.8 cents higher at 151.875 cents (all figures US$). Wednesday morning’s choice wholesale beef climbed […] Read more
An aborted calf fetus
Beef Cattle, Features, Livestock

Why is she open?

Not all pregnancy losses are due to infection

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After a cow is bred, she should calve about 283 days later. But sometimes the pregnancy is terminated early and when you go hunting for a reason you’ll discover they are many causes for a lost pregnancy. Most of the time when there’s a poor pregnancy rate in a herd we suspect infectious causes like […] Read more
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Beef Cattle, Hogs, Livestock, Markets, Reuters

U.S. livestock: CME live cattle resume downtrend, but off lows

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Chicago | Reuters –– Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle closed lower on Tuesday after skittish buyers and fund liquidation wiped out Friday’s modest gains that briefly halted an eight-day losing skid, traders said. February live cattle closed down 1.4 cents per pound, to 153.05 cents, and April ended 1.875 cents lower at 151.075 cents (all […] Read more
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Beef Cattle, Hogs, Livestock, Markets, Reuters

U.S. livestock: CME live cattle snap eight-day losing skid

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Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle posted modest gains on Friday on short-covering before Monday’s Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday that snapped an eight-day string of losses, traders said. The U.S. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday could result in roughly 5,000 fewer cattle and 30,000 less hogs processed that day, an economist […] Read more
cows and calves in a pasture
Beef Cattle, Features

A calving checklist

Get ready ahead of time

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Before calving, you want everything on hand that might be needed, and all facilities and equipment functional and ready for use. Don’t wait till the last minute to get machinery out of the calving barn or maternity pen if that’s where you parked it, or to try to find the new box of OB gloves […] Read more
(Photo courtesy Canada Beef Inc.)
Beef Cattle, Hogs, Livestock, Markets, Reuters

U.S. livestock: More CME live cattle selling as cash prices plunge

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Chicago | Reuters –– Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle ended lower in volatile trade on Thursday, pressured by residual fund liquidation and the steep drop in cash prices, traders said. CME live cattle’s selloff extended losses to eight straight days. The February contract’s limit-down move on Tuesday delayed the “roll” by funds out of that […] Read more
Beef Cattle, Comment

It’s all about the money

Alberta Beef Producers seeks a return of the mandatory checkoff

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After five years of doing without and a year of town hall meetings and weeks of internal discussion Alberta Beef Producers is primed to put its case for a non-refundable checkoff before the Alberta government this spring. The question will be carved into the revised five-year plan governing the ABP operations that will be presented […] Read more

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