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Livestock, Research

Antimicrobial resistance: global report on surveillance

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The World Health Organization’s “Antimicrobial resistance: global report on surveillance” was released this spring. The WHO’s report was quite comprehensive and well balanced, compared to much of the media attention that regularly swirls around this issue. Antimicrobial use leads to increased antimicrobial resistance in bacteria. The misuse or overuse of antimicrobials in human or animal […] Read more
ground beef
Beef Cattle, Prime cuts

Focus on quality

The key for the industry is to keep producing beef of the highest-possible quality

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If you live within driving distance of a Costco store, I recommend you look at its meat case at the back of the store. You will see a limited selection of cuts and ground beef, of high quality at a terrific price. Costco is the best example I know of satisfying the value equation for […] Read more
Livestock, Research

Beam me up

Using irradiation to improve beef safety

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No one wants to throw up in zero gravity, so space programs take great care to avoid food poisoning among astronauts. Irradiation has been used to pasteurize astronauts’ food since 1966. In fact, irradiation has been the most studied of all food-processing technologies over the past 60 years. Irradiation improves food safety by fatally damaging […] Read more
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Cattle producers applaud Korea FTA

Free trade agreement to eliminate tariffs on beef

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The Canadian Cattlemen’s Association – The Canadian Cattlemen’s Association (CCA) is applauding Tuesday’s announcement by Prime Minister Stephen Harper that Canada and the Republic of Korea have reached a free trade agreement (FTA). Under the terms of the agreement, the 40 per cent Korean tariff on fresh and frozen beef will be fully eliminated in […] Read more
Livestock, Market talk

Cattle numbers down, as expected

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Statistics Canada – Canadian farmers reported 12.2 million cattle on their farms as of January 1, down 0.7 per cent from January 1, 2013. Hog producers reported 12.7 million hogs, a 1.1 per cent increase over January 1, 2013, while the number of sheep fell 1.0 per cent to 893,000 head. Overall, cattle prices rose and feed costs declined in the second half of 2013. However, this did not translate […] Read more
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Features

Keeping it simple with F1s

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Scott and Calla Blair are proud of the family’s roots with the Simmental breed and equally proud of the reputation first-cross (F1) Simmental-Red Angus program they’ve developed to carry their fourth-generation farm near Drake, Sask., into its second century. Some things haven’t changed since his great-grandfather started out with a typical 160-acre homestead growing grain […] Read more
Jim Lintott
Livestock

Patience pays with grass-finished beef

Retail-level profits for 30-month-old beef more than double that of 18-month-old beef

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In the grass-finished beef business, keeping a yearling an extra year is worth the wait. In fact, one could hardly afford to do otherwise, because those extra 12 months can mean the difference between profit and loss, Jim Lintott told a presentation on grass-fed beef production at Manitoba Ag Days. Lintott, a grass-finisher and marketer […] Read more
Market talk

Beef demand looking forward

Common market talk regarding the cattle market has to do with cattle inventories and beef production. We all hear about how the calf crop is at historically low levels and the cow herd is shrinking, and yet prices fail to make fresh highs. The reason, which most coffee shop analysts fail to look at, is demand. Statistics Canada and the […] Read more

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