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Brazil expects to be declared free of foot-and-mouth with vaccination

By Jake Spring January 5, 2018

Brazil | Reuters – Brazil expects the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) to declare the country free from foot-and-mouth disease with vaccinations at a meeting in May, according to a government statement on Friday. The declaration will bolster the country’s prospects to export meat to new markets, the statement said. The OIE already considers […] Read more

Beef Cattle, News, News Roundup

Well-supported benchmarks make the best targets

Management: News Roundup from the December 2017 issue of Canadian Cattlemen

By Kris Ringwall December 22, 2017

Friendly, conversational chit-chat rules at cattle gatherings. Conversation guides us, particularly when someone casually notes the ranch had just marketed a 91 per cent calf crop with an average weight of 568 pounds for 192-day-old steer calves. Silence prevailed until the neighbour asked, “Are you sure?” “Yep,” the rancher replied, “but I was just average. […] Read more

A newborn black angus calf with it's mother

Beef Cattle, News, News Roundup

Lemoyne brings Canadian focus to Certified Angus Beef

Marketing: News Roundup from the December 2017 issue of Canadian Cattlemen

By Canadian Cattlemen Staff December 20, 2017

To get premiums for raising high-quality beef, there must be somebody marketing that beef. To sell more, it’s good to have a plan. When you have a plan, it helps to have a person in charge of seeing it through. That’s what the Certified Angus Beef (CAB) brand believes it has gained by hiring Martin […] Read more

Beef Cattle, Markets, Prime cuts

China dangles carrots at U.S. beef industry

Prime Cuts with Steve Kay from the December 2017 issue of Canadian Cattlemen

By Steve Kay December 20, 2017

China is getting increasingly adept at dangling carrots to keep the U.S. at bay. Its latest carrot was to announce on November 9 that it had signed US$253 billion of business deals with U.S. companies. News reports quickly questioned whether the deals will turn into actual business. Buried in the massive total was news that […] Read more

CCA reports, News

CCA Report: Wrapping up 2017

From the December 2017 issue of Canadian Cattlemen

By Dan Darling December 13, 2017

Several important developments occurred in November that hold promise for Canada’s beef producers as 2017 begins to wind down and business plans for next year start to take shape. These include progress in securing the groundwork for improved market access in the Asia Pacific region, and continual improvements to practices that producers already recognize as […] Read more

Beef Cattle, Hogs, Prime cuts

Meat demand is the story of the decade

Prime Cuts with Steve Kay

By Steve Kay December 1, 2017

Lest anyone in the North American livestock industry forget, all wealth to the industry comes from consumers at home and abroad. Cattle and hog producers might feel far removed from those consumers. But they are the people who determine whether producers can make a living or not. The industry to its credit has recognized this […] Read more

Beef Cattle, News, News Roundup

We’re sure that’s Ontario beef

Identification: News Roundup from the November 2017 issue of Canadian Cattlemen

By Canadian Cattlemen Staff November 27, 2017

It sounds like something straight out of a CSI episode and in some ways it is. Oritain, a New Zealand company specializing in scientific traceability to fight food fraud, is seeking a distinct fingerprint for Ontario beef. Both Beef Farmers of Ontario (BFO) and the Ontario Independent Meat Processors (OIMP) have invested in the project. […] Read more

Andrea Stroeve-Sawa is the manager of Shipwheel Cattle Feeders near Taber, Alta.

Beef Cattle, Features, Finishers

She’s the boss now

Management: Andrea Stroeve-Sawa is the manager of Shipwheel Cattle Feeders

By Debbie Furber November 23, 2017

She can’t say she’s surprised when people walk over and ask if the boss is around. After all the feedlot sector is dominated by male operators, but Andrea Stroeve-Sawa couldn’t be prouder as the fourth generation to carry on the Shipwheel brand to say, “you’re talking to her.” She admits that it was a little […] Read more

Beef Cattle, Hogs, Reuters

Russia to restrict Brazilian pork, beef imports from Dec. 1

By Mateus Maia, Polina Devitt November 20, 2017

Moscow/Brasilia | Reuters – Russia will place temporary restrictions on imports of pork and beef products from Brazil from Dec. 1, the country’s agricultural safety watchdog Rosselkhoznadzor said on Monday. Russia said last week it was considering a ban on all pork and beef imports from Brazil after finding the feed additive ractopamine in some […] Read more

Cow-Calf, Forages, Research

Yo-Yo diet strategies

Research on the Record with Reynold Bergen

By Reynold Bergen November 14, 2017

Getting weaned calves on feed can be a challenge. This is often attributed to the change from a forage-based diet to unfamiliar feedlot rations and feed bunks, distress from recent weaning, illness, etc. To compensate for this, some feeders use a relatively high-energy receiving diet, the rationale being that if they’re not going to eat […] Read more

Prairie Wheat Weekly: Prices mixed

Dekalb’s blast from the past

Corn diseases lurk in bumper U.S. crop, threatening yields

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Prairie Wheat Weekly: Prices mixed

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Brazil expects to be declared free of foot-and-mouth with vaccination

Well-supported benchmarks make the best targets

Lemoyne brings Canadian focus to Certified Angus Beef

China dangles carrots at U.S. beef industry

CCA Report: Wrapping up 2017

Meat demand is the story of the decade

We’re sure that’s Ontario beef

She’s the boss now

Russia to restrict Brazilian pork, beef imports from Dec. 1

Yo-Yo diet strategies

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