Insights and Stories on Beef Cattle

Guenther: Canada’s beef export sector waiting, watching

Nov. 22, 2016 at 4:28 pm CST

As speculation swirls around U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s promise to renegotiate NAFTA, officials with Canada’s beef industry are taking a measured approach. They’re not ignoring the possibility of trade disruptions in the U.S., said Ryder Lee, CEO of the Saskatchewan Cattlemen’s Association — “but neither are we lighting our hair […]

Ranchers under quarantine fear going ‘broke by spring’

Nov. 22, 2016 at 3:15 pm CST

By Rod Nickel

Klassen: Feeder cattle jump on positive outlook

Nov. 22, 2016 at 11:55 am CST

By Jerry Klassen

U.S. October feedlot cattle placements hit four-year low

Nov. 21, 2016 at 8:20 pm CST

By Theopolis Waters

Bovine TB probe turns up more TB-positive cattle

Nov. 18, 2016 at 4:49 pm CST

By Staff

Cows in winter pasture eating hay at the steel feeder.

Cattle quarantine comes with a ‘devastating’ cost

Nov. 18, 2016 at 8:48 am CST

Ranches under quarantine in southeastern Alberta could be collectively losing $15,000 to $30,000 per day feeding and caring for the roughly 10,000 cattle they can neither move nor sell. And much of that money may never be recovered, which is prompting calls for a new approach to compensating producers whose […]

By Jennifer Blair

Bovine TB strain of Mexican origin in Alberta probe

Nov. 16, 2016 at 7:36 pm CST

While new to Canada, the strain of tuberculosis bacteria which infected the Alberta cow at the centre of a bovine TB probe has been seen before in Mexico. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency on Wednesday reported the strain of Mycobacterium bovis found in a southeastern Alberta cow is “closely related” […]

By Staff

Klassen: Strong demand underpins feeder market

Nov. 15, 2016 at 12:59 am CST

Western Canadian feeder cattle markets traded steady to $3 above week-ago levels; however, weaned lower-flesh calves were $3 to as much as $6 higher. Southern Alberta calf sales are winding down while other regions are just getting started. This resulted in surreptitious behaviour from Lethbridge-area feedlot operators. Orders stretched across […]

By Jerry Klassen

Bovine TB quarantines push into Saskatchewan

Nov. 14, 2016 at 7:25 pm CST

Two farms in southwestern Saskatchewan have been added to the list of those under federal quarantine as inspectors widen their search for cattle exposed to a new-to-Canada strain of bovine tuberculosis (TB). As of Thursday, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency said it had “approximately 33” farms in Alberta and two […]

By Staff

U.S. livestock: CME live cattle futures climb as cash price outlook improves

Nov. 10, 2016 at 4:25 pm CST

Chicago/Reuters – Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures on Thursday gained for a third straight day, driven by short-covering following renewed optimism for cash prices by Friday, traders said. December and February contracts broke through their respective 10-day moving averages of 102.90 and 104.86 cents, which triggered fund buying. December […]

By Theopolis Waters