Insights and Stories on Livestock

a young woman standing in a pasture with cows grazing in the background

Sundre rancher wins Canadian Cattle award

Oct. 16, 2025 at 9:40 am CDT

Glacier FarmMedia – Brianna Elliot, a cow/calf rancher from Sundre, is this year’s recipient of the annual Reg Schellenberg Next Generation Legacy Award. Elliot, 30, is the manager of forage and grazing research at Olds College in the Technology Access Centre for Livestock Production. She sits on the board of […]

beef cattle in a feedlot in Western Canada

U.S. livestock: Cattle at fresh highs, hogs weaken

Oct. 14, 2025 at 3:39 pm CDT

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

A steer in a Saskatchewan feedlot. Photo: Lisa Guenther

Klassen: Cash feeder market divorces from futures market

Oct. 14, 2025 at 10:41 am CDT

By Jerry Klassen

Ample supplies and improved livestock sector to boost Canadian feed sector: FCC

Oct. 9, 2025 at 3:48 pm CDT

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

closeup view of dairy cows in a row in a milking parlour.

Nestle quits global alliance on reducing dairy methane emissions

Oct. 8, 2025 at 9:29 am CDT

By Alexander Marrow Reuters

Hind quarters of beef hanging in a cooler.

Tyson, Cargill to pay $88 million to consumers in U.S. beef price-fixing lawsuit

Oct. 7, 2025 at 11:39 am CDT

Tyson Foods and Cargill have agreed to pay a combined $87.5 million (C$122.1 million) to settle a federal lawsuit brought by consumers who accused the companies of conspiring to inflate U.S. beef prices by restricting supply.

By Mike Scarcella Reuters

A group of cattle rest by a coulee early in the morning following a big rain near Fairview, Alta.

Klassen: Highs in place for the feeder market

Oct. 7, 2025 at 10:40 am CDT

For the week ending October 4, Western Canadian grass yearling markets traded steady to $5-$8/cwt lower on average compared to seven days earlier. Backgrounded yearlings were down $5-$12/cwt. Calf markets were down $5 to $10/cwt from a week earlier. There was an influx of calves over the past week which […]

By Jerry Klassen

cattle and a barbed wire fence at sunset

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures spike, hogs mixed

Oct. 6, 2025 at 4:18 pm CDT

Chicago cattle futures closed sharply up on Monday while lean hog futures were mixed. “Two large trades were seen at two different levels in the feeder cattle market, suggesting this may have been a short covering rally,” wrote analyst Christopher B. Swift. Most-active November feeders closed at 360.800 cents a […]

By Geralyn Wichers

Cattle graze on a pasture in Manitoba’s Interlake in July 2025

Methane-reducing solutions for beef cattle have a ways to go, say Canadian scientists

Oct. 3, 2025 at 9:59 am CDT

Glacier FarmMedia – Companies developing vaccines that inhibit methane (CH4) production in cattle are facing challenges, say experts, and in the process finding their development is more complex than first thought. Tim McCallister, a research scientist with the Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) Research Centre in Lethbridge, Alta., has been […]

By Jeff Melchior