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With no feed store, abattoir or vet nearby, raising cattle in Labrador is challenging. But Dinsmore is slowly expanding his farm and plans to break ground on an abattoir.

Farming “the Big Land”

Here’s what it’s like to farm in Labrador

By Lisa Mclean February 6, 2024

If there is a cattle-related analogy for the “chicken-and-egg” scenario, it might be farming in Labrador, Canada. There isn’t a single abattoir because there has been no livestock to process. And also there has been no livestock, because there is no abattoir. It’s something Darren Dinsmore, Labrador’s only beef farmer, hopes to change. Dinsmore, who […] Read more

CCA president Bob Lowe speaks at a press conference in Ottawa on March 21, 2022, calling for federal back-to-work legislation to end a work stoppage at Canadian Pacific Railway. (CPAC video screengrab via YouTube)

Crops, Markets

Ag industry groups seek legislated end to CP stoppage

Feed, fertilizer traffic already way behind, groups say

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News March 22, 2022

Warning they don’t have time to wait on negotiation, representatives for cattle feeders, fertilizer producers and grain growers took to Parliament Hill on Monday to press for the federal government to instead legislate Canadian Pacific Railway’s engineers and conductors back to work. Traffic halted on CP lines just after midnight ET Sunday morning as the […] Read more

Beef Cattle, Livestock, Markets, Reuters

U.S. senators scrutinize meat packers’ profits during pandemic

By Tom Polansek, GFM Network News April 1, 2020

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. senators are calling for investigations of record profit margins for beef processors such as Tyson Foods and Cargill, after ranchers complained surging meat prices due to coronavirus hoarding did not translate into higher cattle prices. Futures prices for cattle have tumbled during the outbreak, worrying farmers as the U.S. economy […] Read more

Beef cattle feeding in Ontario. (DebraLee Wiseberg/iStock/Getty Images)

Finishers, Livestock, Markets

COVID-19 strains already-battered Ontario beef industry

Limited processing capacity remains financial challenge for province's feedlot sector, despite recent increase in retail demand

By Piper Whelan, GFM Network News March 31, 2020

Ontario’s beef industry was already in the midst of an economic crisis, but COVID-19 is worsening the financial toll on the province’s cattle feeders. Due to extremely limited processing plant capacity, an uncompetitive market and disruptions to trade and market access, Ontario’s beef industry was losing an average of more than $2 million per week […] Read more

Beef Cattle, Livestock, Markets, Reuters

CME plans no more changes to cattle contract for now

By Tom Polansek October 11, 2017

Chicago | Reuters — CME Group plans no further moves to reduce volatility in its cattle futures market, after making a series of changes to rein in wild price swings that drove away hedgers, a managing director said on Wednesday. Over the past two years, the exchange operator, which owns the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and […] Read more

Crops, Hay, Weather

Hay shortage could make for difficult winter

By Terry Fries October 3, 2017

CNS Canada — Many cattle producers looking for local feed this winter might have a difficult time, according to a Saskatchewan provincial forage specialist. However, producers further north in the grey and black soil zones, and those in Alberta producing high-quality feed for export, saw near-record hay production. Terry Kowalchuk of Saskatchewan Agriculture in Regina […] Read more

Future growth in the industry depends on a higher rate of weaned heifer retention this fall.

Beef Cattle, Features, Markets

What the latest Census tells us about Canada’s beef herd

Marketing with Charlie Gracey

By Charlie Gracey August 29, 2017

The Canadian beef cow herd reached a new record high of 4.92 million head on July 1, 2003, less than two months after the discovery of BSE in a herd in Alberta. For present purposes, I regard the 2003 number as the all-time peak even though beef cow numbers were forced upward to 5.44 million […] Read more

Sarah and Logan Wray with their children Georgia, Bella and Luke.

Beef Cattle, Features, Livestock

Finding inspiration from within the farm community

By Debbie Furber March 18, 2016

Sarah and Logan Wray never doubted their future would involve raising beef cattle. The real decision came down to how to make it happen. Four years after setting their course they were able to start buying their first quarter of land near Bashaw, Alta., and the seeds had been planted for FarmOn, a virtual resource […] Read more

"We want our bulls to represent everything we do, and we want them to go out, work hard and have long lives."

Beef Cattle, Features

Travis and Becky Page: Building a purebred seedstock operation

By Tessa Nybo October 19, 2015

Unlike many seedstock producers, neither Travis nor Becky Page were born into the purebred industry. Both grew up on a mixed grain and commercial cattle operation, Travis near Didsbury, Alta., and Becky near Grenfell, Sask. As a result, when they started their operation, Redline Livestock, they didn’t have a family name or a multi-generational reputation […] Read more

Alberta crop conditions improve: report

U.S. grains: Corn sets contract lows on expectations for big US crop

U.S. livestock: Cattle strength continues

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Alberta crop conditions improve: report

U.S. grains: Corn sets contract lows on expectations for big US crop

U.S. livestock: Cattle strength continues

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Farming “the Big Land”

Ag industry groups seek legislated end to CP stoppage

U.S. senators scrutinize meat packers’ profits during pandemic

COVID-19 strains already-battered Ontario beef industry

CME plans no more changes to cattle contract for now

Hay shortage could make for difficult winter

What the latest Census tells us about Canada’s beef herd

Finding inspiration from within the farm community

Travis and Becky Page: Building a purebred seedstock operation

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