Insights and Stories on Beef Cattle

Aug. 29, 2025 at 3:34 pm CDT

As the harvest in southern Alberta presses on, a broker said that is one of the factors pulling feed prices lower in the region. Darcy Haley, vice-president of Ag Value Brokers in Lethbridge, added that lower cattle numbers in feedlots, plentiful amounts of grass for cattle to graze and a lacklustre export market also weighed on feed prices.

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

Aug. 15, 2025 at 3:57 pm CDT

Cattle futures on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange were stronger on Friday, finding some support from fresh details on the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s plans to deal with new world screwworm.

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Aug. 15, 2025 at 2:04 pm CDT

The U.S. Department of Agriculture will spend up to $750 million to build a sterile fly production facility in Texas to fight the flesh-eating livestock pest New World screwworm, USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins said on Friday, Aug. 15.

By Leah Douglas, Reuters, Tom Polansek

Jul. 29, 2025 at 10:04 am CDT

For the week ending July 26, Western Canadian feeder cattle markets were relatively unchanged from seven days earlier. Yearlings off grass weighing 900 pounds plus were very strong and may have been up $3 to $5 from the previous week.

By Jerry Klassen

Jul. 28, 2025 at 3:23 pm CDT

Glacier FarmMedia – Hormone implants in suckling calves have had a hard public relations slog with consumers, but cow-calf producers who use them are likely to see greater economic returns while also reducing environmental impacts, a Manitoba study shows. Deanne Fulawka, a researcher from the University of Manitoba, presented her […]

By Geralyn Wichers