Insights and Stories on Beef Cattle

Klassen: Uncertainty defines feeder market

Apr. 21, 2020 at 12:51 pm CDT

Compared to last week, western Canadian yearling prices were down $3-`$5 on average while calves were unchanged to down $2. Sales were characterized by low volumes and limited buying interest. Feedlot operators are hesitant to step forward in the current environment, with packing plants on both sides of the border […]

Cargill to temporarily idle High River beef plant

Apr. 20, 2020 at 5:07 pm CDT

By Kelsey Johnson

Third major Alberta beef plant confirms COVID-19 cases

Apr. 16, 2020 at 5:20 pm CDT

By Alexis Kienlen

Beef cattle producers seek new set-aside plan

Apr. 15, 2020 at 10:12 pm CDT

By GFM Staff

Klassen: Weaker fed cattle prices weigh on feeder market

Apr. 14, 2020 at 10:14 pm CDT

By Jerry Klassen

Beef Farmers of Ontario ask for curb on cull sales

Apr. 13, 2020 at 10:19 pm CDT

Updated, April 15 — Ontario’s cattle producer organization is asking members to consider delaying sales of cull cows until market conditions “normalize.” Beef Farmers of Ontario’s board on Thursday published a memo to beef and dairy cattle producers, asking them to help “prevent a further surge in cull cows in […]

By GFM Staff

Cargill halts second shift at High River beef plant

Apr. 13, 2020 at 8:07 pm CDT

Cargill is temporarily idling its second shift at one of Canada’s biggest beef packing plants to “minimize the impact” of the COVID-19 coronavirus. The company announced Monday it would reduce shifts at its High River, Alta. beef plant, about 40 km south of Calgary, effective that day and until further […]

By GFM Staff

Cattle producers press for lower price insurance premiums

Apr. 13, 2020 at 5:03 pm CDT

The Western Livestock Price Insurance Program is not functioning properly due to very high premiums and needs to be quickly revamped, says the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association. “We’re having unprecedented volatility for markets. Having tools in place for farmers and ranchers has never been more important,” executive vice-president Dennis Laycraft said […]

By Alexis Kienlen

China’s beef imports to drop as hotpot comes off the boil

Apr. 12, 2020 at 7:13 pm CDT

Beijing | Reuters — Just over two months ago, the Jinyuan Fucheng Beef Hotpot restaurant in northern Beijing had a long line of customers waiting outside its doors almost every night of the week. Now, the restaurant that can seat 800 barely fills 20 tables a day, with most people […]

By Dominique Patton Sophie Yu

Zoetis buys livestock data management firm

Apr. 11, 2020 at 1:19 am CDT

The producer of livestock drugs such as Draxxin, Bovatec and Excede is buying space in the “precision livestock farming” market with a deal for a U.S. livestock data management firm. New Jersey-based Zoetis, which makes drugs and vaccines for the beef and dairy cattle, equine, swine, poultry and sheep sectors […]

By GFM Staff