Prepping for the politicians

Prepping for the politicians

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

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

Ryan and Carolyn Copithorne of Jumping Pound, Alta.

Ready to hire a marketing specialist for your calves?

Ryan Copithorne is betting you are.

A typical marketing plan for many cow-calf producers revolves around hoping to hit a run of good prices when they sell calves, yearlings and cull cows after preg-checking. If the stars don’t align to bring all of the variables together in their favour on sale day — weather conditions for roundup, trucking arrangements, market forces […] Read more


Seizing the opportunity

Positive change and things to review in your cattle operation

In March I offered three suggestions for benefiting from the better times, invest in your people, manage to improve your land and don’t spend your money before you actually have it. I think these three still stand. This month’s article is about how to adjust to the better times so that we will have more […] Read more