Insights and Stories on Cattle Feeding

beef cattle in a feedlot in Western Canada

Klassen: Feeding margin uncertainty weighs on feeder cattle market

Jun. 3, 2025 at 9:05 am CDT

For the week ending May 31, Western Canadian feeder cattle markets traded steady to as much as $10 lower on average. Dryer grass conditions in certain regions of Manitoba and central and northern Saskatchewan may have contributed to the softer tone at certain locations. Many feedlot operators continue to sit […]

Feed barley under pressure, but opportunities available

Feb. 22, 2024 at 2:14 pm CST

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Feed weekly outlook: Barley bids drop ahead of harvest

Aug. 7, 2020 at 6:08 pm CDT

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Cattle feeding getting expensive in Manitoba

Aug. 2, 2019 at 9:24 am CDT

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

Feed weekly outlook: Barley bids soften as attention turns to new crop

Apr. 11, 2019 at 8:03 pm CDT

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Feed weekly outlook: Demand shifting at Alberta feedlots

Feb. 1, 2018 at 5:30 pm CST

CNS Canada — Demand has shifted at Alberta feedlots this year with more forward contracting and less business taking place in the spot market, according to an analyst. “In a lot of years we’ve seen the demand has stayed in the spot market but this year there were more forward […]

By Ashley Robinson - MarketsFarm

Cargill to exit U.S. cattle feeding business

Apr. 26, 2017 at 2:52 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Cargill said on Wednesday it will exit the business of feeding cattle to direct capital toward other investments, the latest transformation for the global commodity trader. Minnesota-based Cargill struck a deal to sell its last two feed yards to ethanol producer Green Plains for US$36.7 million, […]

By Theopolis Waters Tom Polansek

Study finds Canadian beef’s GHG footprint shrunk over 30 years

Jan. 11, 2016 at 6:51 pm CST

Efficiencies in cattle production and feeding have allowed Canada’s beef industry to produce the same weight in beef as 30 years ago with smaller breeding herds, less land — and smaller greenhouse gas (GHG) output, a new study finds. The study, led by research scientist Tim McAllister of Agriculture and […]

By Staff

Insights and Stories on Cattle Feeding

Klassen: Feeding margin uncertainty weighs on feeder cattle market

Feed barley under pressure, but opportunities available

Feed weekly outlook: Barley bids drop ahead of harvest

Cattle feeding getting expensive in Manitoba

Feed weekly outlook: Barley bids soften as attention turns to new crop

Feed weekly outlook: Demand shifting at Alberta feedlots

Cargill to exit U.S. cattle feeding business

Study finds Canadian beef’s GHG footprint shrunk over 30 years

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