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Ryan Hurlburt, auctioneer with Saskatoon Livestock Sales, won the 2016 LMAC champion auctioneer of the year.
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Ryan Hurlburt wins LMAC auctioneering champion

News Roundup from the June 2016 issue of Canadian Cattlemen

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Camaraderie and a chance to learn livestock selling from the best drew 29 auctioneers from points across Alberta through Quebec to the Livestock Markets Association of Canada’s (LMAC) annual auctioneering championships May 13 at Brussels Livestock, Brussels, Ont. It was standing room only for six hours straight in the house with a live feed to […] Read more
CCA Report: The pressing issues of beef and forage research, traceability
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CCA Report: The pressing issues of beef and forage research, traceability

From the May 2016 issue of Canadian Cattlemen

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Research plays an integral role in achieving a competitive Canadian beef sector. In addition to investment in research and research infrastructure, other key factors include fully funding programs that help producers manage risk, investing in infrastructure, securing access to high value and growing markets, Canada’s regulatory operating environment, and ensuring access to sufficient labour. The […] Read more
Rustlers take more than your cattle
Beef Cattle, Cow-Calf, Features

Rustlers take more than your cattle

Be sure you can identify your animals

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Nearly six years after 10 bred heifers were stolen from them, Glenn and Christine Strube still feel the lingering stress of the long, drawn-out court process that ended with a guilty verdict. Most disturbing is knowing that the crime wasn’t committed by a fly-by-night thief, but by a neighbour who blatantly lied about it. Little […] Read more
cow with ear identification tag
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Tag losses higher on cows

News Roundup from the February 2016 issue of Canadian Cattlemen

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It won’t be long before the industry may have some answers to a problem that has long been the ire of beef producers — tag retention for animal identification. The final report on the Canadian Cattle Identification Agency’s (CCIA) national tag retention project will be made public on its website this April along with details […] Read more
Beef Cattle, News Roundup

Cattle identification agency refines its database

News Roundup from the December 2015 issue of Canadian Cattlemen

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The Canadian Cattle Identification Agency (CCIA) added a few new reporting fields to its Canadian Livestock Tracking System (CLTS) database, a key component in the national livestock traceability system. As of November 20, the database now accepts 15-digit 840-series USDA tag identification (ID) numbers to keep track of imported animals as they move through the […] Read more
Prepping for the politicians
Beef Cattle, Comment

Prepping for the politicians

A few notes from the CCA’s semi-annual meeting

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Late last month the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association published a political wish list on behalf of the beef industry for candidates running in the federal election. You can find it on the CCA website. The week before that document came out I had a chance to hear some of the background discussions that went into setting […] Read more
Doug Sawyer in a pasture with cattle
Beef Cattle, Features

Animal care lives here

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Driving down the road to the family’s old homestead established in 1903 near Pine Lake, Alta., Doug Sawyer stops to look at the corrals he helped design and build when he was a kid. “We thought about the ways animals move and how to make it work for us by rounding out corners and letting […] Read more
Beef Cattle, News Roundup

Stock Growers Association splits with SCA on traceability

News Roundup from the August 2015 issue of Canadian Cattlemen

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There was no shortage of issues to debate with 24 resolutions on the table during Saskatchewan Stock Growers Association’s 102nd AGM at Swift Current. Agriculture Minister Lyle Stewart’s launch of the province’s online premises identification (PID) database during his address to open the conference didn’t sway members set against mandatory PID. They narrowly defeated a […] Read more
cattle in a pasture with ID tags
Beef Cattle, News Roundup

4-H Beef Club earns national award

News Roundup from the May 2015 issue of Canadian Cattlemen

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Brainstorming ideas for an invention that could change the world of agriculture got members of the Abbey-Lancer 4-H Beef Club of Pennant, Sask., thinking about an easier way to apply electronic identification tags without the use of tagging pliers. In the end, they came up with not one, but two ideas to win the club […] Read more

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