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Beef Cattle, Livestock

Tight numbers a concern for livestock marketers

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The bloom may soon come off the rose for record-high cattle prices as economic indicators in the United States suggest a coming slowdown in consumer beef demand. That was the message from commodity market analyst Jerry Klassen to the Livestock Market Association of Canada’s annual convention in Winnipeg earlier this summer. A roaring bull market […] Read more
meat display in store
Beef Cattle, Prime cuts

Tough times in the meat case

Prime Cuts from the August 2015 issue of Canadian Cattlemen

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May and June are the two best months of the year for retail beef sales in the U.S. But high prices and consumers’ reluctance to spend more on beef put a damper on sales this year. The week leading up to the Memorial Day holiday has the second-largest sales in volume and value while the […] Read more
A slightly more modern photo – than described below – of cooking steaks over hot coals.
History, Our History

History: Barbecuing Beef

Reprinted from the September 1949 issue of Canadian Cattlemen

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By Harry J. Hargrave, co-ordinator, Range Research, Lethbridge, Alberta There are few menus for outdoor summer gatherings that are more appropriate or more tasty than barbecued beef. Properly barbecued beef has a distinctive flavour which apparently cannot be secured by other means of preparation and it carries a lot of appetite appeal for crowds both […] Read more
CCA Report: Drought concerns and trade talks
Beef Cattle, CCA reports

CCA Report: Drought concerns and trade talks

From the August 2015 issue of Canadian Cattlemen

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It’s been a busy summer for the Canadian Cattlemen Association (CCA), with plenty of activity on a number of ongoing files. CCA officials were in Charlottetown, P.E.I., for the annual July meeting of the federal, provincial and territorial ministers of agriculture, where workforce issues, social licence and the extreme dry conditions in pockets of Alberta […] Read more
Ukraine opens to more Canadian beef imports
Beef Cattle

Ukraine opens to more Canadian beef imports

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Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz and International Trade Minister Ed Fast have announced the Ukrainian market has opened for beef from cattle under 30 months of age and ready-to-eat meat. In 2014 Ukraine lifted a ban on imports of other Canadian beef products imposed after Canada reported a case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy in 2003. A […] Read more
Minister Richard Lochhead (l) and Jim McLaren of Quality Meat Scotland at the launch of the Beef 2020 report.
Beef Cattle

Scotland’s Beef 2020 program is geared to boost output and exports

Twenty-three point plan aims to improve the efficiency, sustainability and quality of producer's beef herds

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Beef output in Scotland stands on the threshold of a major advance with the industry being driven forward by a newly devised production efficiency scheme called Beef 2020, backed by £45 million of Scottish government money and designed to secure a membership base involving 70 per cent of the country’s beef herds. An ambitious project, […] Read more
Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food, Gerry Ritz.
Beef Cattle, CCA reports

CCA Report: A COOL victory for Canadian beef producers

From the June 2015 issue of Canadian Cattlemen

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On May 18, in a historic and decisive victory for Canada’s cattle industry, the Appellate Body of the World Trade Organization (WTO) issued a fourth and final ruling confirming that U.S. mandatory country-of-origin labelling (COOL) discriminates against U.S. imports of Canadian cattle and hogs. The ruling effectively ends the eight-year legal battle initiated by the […] Read more
woman shopping near a meat display in a grocery store
Beef Cattle, Prime cuts

COOL legislation had no benefit for the U.S. beef industry

Prime Cuts from the May 2015 issue of Canadian Cattlemen

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It’s a coincidence that May heralded one of the last chapters in the long-running saga over country-of-origin labelling just as the spring grilling season begins. But it’s worth noting that COOL supporters claimed that COOL would improve demand for U.S. beef and that consumers would pay more for it. What has happened since COOL was […] Read more
(Peggy Greb photo courtesy ARS/USDA)
Beef Cattle, Fruit/Vegetables, Grapes, Hogs, Livestock, Markets, Reuters

Canada preparing shorter list of tariff targets in COOL fight

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Winnipeg | Reuters — Canada is whittling down its list of U.S. products that it may hit with steep tariffs in retaliation against contentious meat-labeling laws, Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz said on Tuesday. The Canadian government is likely to target beef, pork, California wines, mattresses, cherries and office furniture, possibly along with other goods, from […] Read more

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