Insights and Stories on Alberta

Klassen: Negative feeding margins temper strength in feeder market

Jun. 7, 2022 at 4:42 am CDT

Compared to last week, western Canadian yearlings weighing over 800 lbs. traded steady to $2 lower on average. Feeder cattle under 800 lbs. were relatively unchanged. Alberta packers were buying fed cattle on a dressed basis at an average price of $288 delivered, down from the range of $288-$290 seven […]

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Feed weekly outlook: Rains forecast for southern Alberta

Jun. 2, 2022 at 7:41 pm CDT

By Adam Peleshaty

Environment Canada sees cool summer for Manitoba

Jun. 1, 2022 at 6:44 pm CDT

By MarketsFarm

Klassen: Steady demand supports feeder cattle prices

May. 31, 2022 at 2:27 pm CDT

By Jerry Klassen

Prairie cash wheat: Talk of Black Sea corridor weighs on week’s bids

May. 27, 2022 at 7:12 pm CDT

By Adam Peleshaty

Feed weekly outlook: Feedlots shopping for new-crop barley

May. 26, 2022 at 2:02 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — While corn imported from the U.S. was the grain of choice for Alberta feedlots for the past few months, feed barley has slowly become more in demand. Erin Harakal, trade manager for Agfinity Inc. at Stony Plain, Alta., explained that some feedlots were already having their cattle feed […]

By Adam Peleshaty

Klassen: Canadian feeder market divorces from feeder cattle futures

May. 24, 2022 at 1:19 am CDT

Compared to last week western Canadian yearling markets traded $3-$4 on either side of unchanged. The quality was quite variable resulting in the wide price structure; however, decent genetic and lower flesh packages were red hot. Feedlot operators were extremely aggressive on 700- to 800-lb. steers although higher weight categories […]

By Jerry Klassen

Klassen: Feeder market develops two-tier price structure

May. 17, 2022 at 5:33 pm CDT

Compared to last week, western Canadian yearlings markets traded $2-$4 higher on average; feeder cattle in the 600- to 800-pound weight category were up $3 to as much as $6 while calves under 600 lbs. traded $4-$8 higher. The Canadian dollar strengthened on Friday but the softer tone from Monday […]

By Jerry Klassen

High-path avian flu reaches Vancouver Island

May. 15, 2022 at 10:31 pm CDT

North America’s latest round of highly pathogenic avian influenza outbreaks has now made its way from one end of Canada clear to the other. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency on Tuesday confirmed Canada’s westernmost case ever of high-path avian flu in domestic birds, finding an H5N1 virus in a small-scale […]

By Dave Bedard

Prairie cash wheat: Bids climb higher

May. 13, 2022 at 8:08 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — A rally in U.S. wheat futures together with a downturn in the Canadian dollar combined to take Prairie wheat bids sharply higher during the second week of May. Average Canada Western Red Spring (CWRS, 13.5 per cent protein) wheat prices were up by $40.80-$45 per tonne during the […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin