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CCA Report: Reasons for optimism

From the August 2016 issue of Canadian Cattlemen

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If there was ever a time for optimism in the beef industry, it would have to be now. Positive developments in market access over the summer months are of practical as well as symbolic importance. Fully restored access to Mexico and the resumption of trade to Taiwan are important as every gain in market access supports […] Read more
(Photo courtesy Canada Beef Inc.)
Livestock, Markets, Reuters

U.S. livestock: CME live cattle stretch losses to ninth straight day

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Chicago | Reuters –– Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle contracts on Thursday tallied losses for a ninth day in a row, pressured by bearish market fundamentals that offset futures’ discount to cash prices, traders said. August live cattle ended down 0.25 cent/lb., to 112.475 cents (all figures US$). Most actively traded October closed 0.375 cent […] Read more
Cape Horn, the southernmost point of Chile. (CIA.gov)
Livestock, Reuters

Chile plans to send TPP deal to Congress this year

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Santiago | Reuters — The Chilean government is expecting to send the Pacific trade deal known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) to its Congress for approval by the end of 2016, President Michelle Bachelet said Thursday. The 12-nation TPP aims to liberalize commerce in 40 per cent of the world’s economy, but its future is […] Read more
(Fonterra.com)
Dairy Cattle, Livestock, Reuters

Australia competition watchdog to widen dairy investigation

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Sydney | Reuters — Australia’s competition watchdog will launch a broad investigation into the country’s dairy industry, the country’s deputy prime minister Barnaby Joyce said on Thursday. The investigation comes after Australia’s largest dairy processor Murray Goulburn and New Zealand’s Fonterra Co-operative Group in April reduced their farm gate prices, or what they pay farmers […] Read more
(Photo courtesy Canada Beef Inc.)
Livestock, Markets, Reuters

U.S. livestock: CME live cattle slump eighth day in a row

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Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures on Wednesday settled in negative territory for an eighth straight day, and hit a one-month low, following disappointing preliminary cash prices, traders said. August live cattle ended down 0.525 cent/lb. at 112.725 cents (all figures US$). Most actively traded October closed 0.825 cent lower at […] Read more
Family members joined Miles and Sheri Anderson in accepting the Environmental Stewardship Award for Saskatchewan (l. to r.): Abel Goodwin, Rick Goodwin, Carlee Goodwin, Tori Knudson, Quinn Folk, Sheri Anderson, Anderson Goodwin and Miles Anderson. Missing are Kacy Lee Anderson, Keith Folk and Dallas Knudson.
Beef Cattle, News, News Roundup

Ambassadors for Greater sage-grouse

Environment: News Roundup from the August 2016 issue of Canadian Cattlemen

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Miles and Sheri Anderson and family of Fir Mountain, Sask., are the recipients of The Environmental Stewardship Award (TESA) for Saskatchewan presented dur­ing the Saskatchewan Stock Growers Association’s convention at Regina. Robin Bloom, a wildlife biologist with Environment Canada who oversees federal support for Species at Risk projects supported the Andersons’ nomination, acknowledging the family not only […] Read more
(EC.europa.eu)
Livestock, Markets

Pettigrew tapped to help push through EU trade deal

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Ottawa | Reuters — Canada has named a former politician with experience in trade and foreign affairs as the government’s new envoy to help complete its long-negotiated free trade agreement with the European Union, a spokeswoman said Wednesday. Pierre Pettigrew, who served as both minister of foreign affairs and minister for international trade under previous […] Read more
(Gloria Solano-Aguilar photo courtesy ARS/USDA)
Hogs, Livestock

Fines now an option for pig traceability enforcement

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Canadian hog producers who don’t follow the federal requirements for animal identification and tracking of animal movements could now be fined for non-compliance, though it’s expected such fines would be a “last resort.” The Canadian Food Inspection Agency on Wednesday announced new amendments to the Agriculture and Agri-Food Administrative Monetary Penalties Regulations, allowing CFIA-designated officials […] Read more
(Photo courtesy Canada Beef Inc.)
Livestock, Markets, Reuters

U.S. livestock: More CME live cattle selling on weaker cash outlook

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Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures’ losing streak stretched to a seventh consecutive session on Tuesday in anticipation of softer cash prices by Friday, traders said. August live cattle ended down 0.175 cent/lb. to 113.25 cents (all figures US$). Most actively traded October closed 0.625 cent lower at 109.725 cents. Bids […] Read more
Mark and Cindy Ferraro.
Beef Cattle, Markets

Looking out for No. 1

Farmers come first at Brussels Livestock

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The village of Brussels in rural southwestern Ontario is known for two things not typically mentioned in the same sentence: its quaint Victorian charm and a bustling auction market. Brussels Livestock hosts three sales weekly, with fed cattle and butcher bulls and cows selling Tuesdays, an assortment of veal calves, sheep and goats on Thursdays, […] Read more

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