Insights and Stories on Beef Cattle

Klassen: Winter conditions weigh on feeder market

Dec. 13, 2016 at 3:24 am CST

Western Canadian feeder cattle prices traded steady to $3 lower compared to seven days earlier. The market tends to soften during the first major snowstorm each year, but the established risk discount was not as severe as in past years. Notwithstanding the cold temperatures and adverse weather conditions, feedlot operators […]

Watch your cows with an eye in the sky

Dec. 9, 2016 at 12:00 am CST

By Duane McCartney

New quarantines added in bovine TB probe

Dec. 7, 2016 at 7:36 pm CST

By Staff

JBS plans U.S. IPO for international unit

Dec. 6, 2016 at 3:03 am CST

By Marcelo Teixeira

Klassen: Positive margins support feeder cattle market

Dec. 6, 2016 at 2:15 am CST

By Jerry Klassen

Cattle industry leader Boyd Anderson, 96

Dec. 2, 2016 at 2:55 pm CST

Memorial services will be held Dec. 10 in Glentworth, Sask. for Boyd Anderson, a respected rancher and leader in the Saskatchewan and Canadian beef cattle industries, who passed away Thursday in Moose Jaw at age 96. Anderson, who had started ranching in about 1937 near Fir Mountain, about 170 km […]

By Staff

Quarantined Alberta ranches to get AgriRecovery

Nov. 30, 2016 at 2:51 pm CST

Ranchers in southeastern Alberta having to feed and maintain quarantined cattle they can’t move or sell can expect a federal/provincial AgriRecovery plan to help cover those costs in the next few days. Federal Agriculture Minister Lawrence MacAulay and his Alberta counterpart Oneil Carlier on Wednesday announced producers faced with “extraordinary […]

By Staff

Klassen: Feeder cattle prices climbing

Nov. 29, 2016 at 4:58 pm CST

Western Canadian feeder cattle markets were trading $5-$7 above week-ago levels, with higher-quality cattle trading as much as $10 higher. It’s difficult to quarrel with one’s bread and butter; feedlot margins are now in positive territory and cattle feeders are keen on ownership with the positive outlook into the March […]

By Jerry Klassen

More culls, quarantines added to bovine TB probe

Nov. 28, 2016 at 5:10 pm CST

Thousands more cattle and calves in southeastern Alberta are now booked to be destroyed, as a search continues for animals that had contact with one or more of six tuberculosis-infected Alberta cattle. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency on Monday announced its “herd” of animals known to have commingled with the […]

Feedlots sought to take in TB-quarantined cattle

Nov. 25, 2016 at 5:15 pm CST

Prairie cattle producers whose herds are stuck under federal quarantine while officials trace out cases of bovine tuberculosis (TB) could soon have a option to house animals at an approved feedlot. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency on Friday said it is working with beef cattle industry representatives to find one […]

By Staff