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Klassen: Feeder cattle market holds value

By Jerry Klassen June 14, 2016

Western Canadian feeder cattle prices were steady to $5 higher over the past week on limited volumes. Stragglers from backgrounding operations and late-blooming calves set a reserved tone amongst buyers with large price variations at different regions of the Prairies. Feedlot margins are hovering around breakeven and there appears to be solid demand underneath the […] Read more

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North Dakotans put ‘corporate’ farming to vote

By Reuters June 14, 2016

Reuters — North Dakotans are voting Tuesday in a referendum to repeal a law enacted last year that changed decades of family-farming rules in the state by allowing corporations to own and operate dairy and hog farms. The North Dakota Farmers Union and other groups that collected signatures to put the referendum on the ballot […] Read more

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Holistic Ranching: Happy trails from Don Campbell

By Don Campbell June 14, 2016

My first article in Cattlemen appeared 13 years ago in March 2003 under the title Holistic Ranching. I was eager to write but I was also pretty nervous and green at that time. I will be 72 in May and have decided that now is an appropriate time to stop writing. This decision is largely […] Read more

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U.S. livestock: Cattle limit down on feed costs, demand worries

By Michael Hirtzer, GFM Network News June 14, 2016

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. live and feeder cattle futures each plummeted by their daily trading limits on Monday, declining in a technical selloff triggered in part by rising feed prices, traders and analysts said. Losses in feeder cattle of roughly three per cent outpaced declines in the more actively traded live cattle futures at […] Read more

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U.S. livestock: Fund liquidation sinks CME live cattle

By Theopolis Waters, GFM Network News June 10, 2016

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures closed lower on Friday, hit by fund selling and caution while awaiting market-ready, or cash, cattle prices by day’s end, said traders. June live cattle closed down 0.75 cent/lb. to 122.45 cents, after drifting below the 100-day moving average of 122.71 cents (all figures US$). […] Read more

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Olymel buying Quebec sausage maker

By Canadian Cattlemen Staff June 10, 2016

Quebec’s Olymel plans to consolidate its sausage business into a next-to-new processing plant, after making a deal to buy the plant’s owner. Olymel, the meat packing arm of La Coop federee, announced Tuesday it will buy Trois-Rivieres processor La Fernandiere for an undisclosed sum. La Fernandiere will “remain an autonomous entity” within Olymel, the company […] Read more

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Lower feed costs weigh on supply-managed goods

By Erin DeBooy June 10, 2016

CNS Canada –– Relatively soft feed grain prices over the past year mean producers of supply-managed commodities, such as milk and eggs, have also received lower prices for their products. Such is the interpretation of industry participants accounting for declines in the latest Farm Price Index data released by Statistics Canada. The livestock and animal […] Read more

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Canada’s PSP buys stake in tag maker Allflex

By Reuters June 10, 2016

Reuters — PSP Investments, one of Canada’s biggest pension funds, said Friday it had acquired a significant minority stake in Allflex Group, the world’s biggest maker of electronic tags for animals, from private equity firm BC Partners. The purchase was overseen by PSP’s new team in London, led by Simon Marc, and is likely to […] Read more

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Supreme Court rules most animal sex acts not against bestiality law

By Ethan Lou June 10, 2016

Toronto | Reuters — Canada’s bestiality law only bans sexual acts that involve penetration, the country’s Supreme Court ruled on Thursday, a blow to advocacy groups who argued animals should be afforded the same protection from exploitation that humans are given. Supreme Court judges ruled 6-1 in favour of a man from British Columbia convicted […] Read more

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U.S. livestock: Cash price optimism underpins CME live cattle

By Theopolis Waters, GFM Network News June 9, 2016

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures closed firmer on Thursday, helped by expectations that cash prices will hold steady or rise by Friday, said traders. June live cattle closed up 0.175 cent/lb. at 123.2 cents, and August rose 0.125 cent to 118.85 cents (all figures US$). Packers in the U.S. southern […] Read more

U.S. livestock: Hog futures hit contract highs on shock herd decline

Alberta Crop Report: Harvest more than three-quarters finished

NFU says proposed plant breeders’ rights come at farmers’ expense

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U.S. livestock: Hog futures hit contract highs on shock herd decline

Alberta Crop Report: Harvest more than three-quarters finished

NFU says proposed plant breeders’ rights come at farmers’ expense

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Klassen: Feeder cattle market holds value

North Dakotans put ‘corporate’ farming to vote

Holistic Ranching: Happy trails from Don Campbell

U.S. livestock: Cattle limit down on feed costs, demand worries

U.S. livestock: Fund liquidation sinks CME live cattle

Olymel buying Quebec sausage maker

Lower feed costs weigh on supply-managed goods

Canada’s PSP buys stake in tag maker Allflex

Supreme Court rules most animal sex acts not against bestiality law

U.S. livestock: Cash price optimism underpins CME live cattle

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