Insights and Stories on Cattle

Rain gives farmers relief, for now, from three-year drought

Jun. 25, 2019 at 3:56 pm CDT

Winnipeg | Reuters — With drought turning Chad Ross’s pastures brown, the southeastern Saskatchewan rancher sent 140 head of cattle to slaughter earlier than usual this spring, as the Prairies’ three-year drought made them too expensive to feed. The ranch and feedlot near Estevan has lost money two straight years. […]

Klassen: Fed cattle bounce supports yearling market

Jun. 25, 2019 at 10:43 am CDT

By Jerry Klassen

U.S. livestock: Hog futures limit down on supply glut

Jun. 21, 2019 at 6:20 pm CDT

By Tom Polansek

U.S. farmers face devastation following Midwest floods

Mar. 20, 2019 at 8:15 pm CDT

By Humeyra Pamuk P.J. Huffstutter Tom Polansek

Livestock, pets among victims in U.S. Midwest flooding

Mar. 19, 2019 at 7:21 pm CDT

By Peter Szekely

U.S. farm belt slammed by floods, heavy snow from bomb cyclone

Mar. 18, 2019 at 5:56 am CDT

Reuters — A harsh late-winter storm broadsided a vast swath of the U.S. agriculture industry this week as heavy snow closed roads and buried cattle in the Plains while excessive rain flooded Midwest fields and swamped grain elevators. A “bomb cyclone” hurled hurricane-force winds, sparked tornadoes and dumped heavy snow […]

By Karl Plume

Feed weekly outlook: Prairie prices on the rise

Mar. 7, 2019 at 12:17 pm CST

MarketsFarm — Feed grain prices have been on the upswing recently, according to Nelson Neumann of Agfinity at Stony Plain, Alta. “We saw them at the end of last week, the beginning of this week, really jump up. Guys were scrambling to get stuff in before road bans,” he said. […]

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

‘Tinder for cows’ matches livestock in mood for love

Feb. 13, 2019 at 1:48 pm CST

Petersfield, England | Reuters — A Tinder-inspired app is helping farmers match up potential partners for their cattle. Called “Tudder” — a mix of dating app Tinder and udder — it lets farmers swipe right on cattle they like the look of. They are then directed to a page on […]

By Matthew Stock

Bovine TB strain in latest outbreak new to Canada

Jan. 9, 2019 at 4:38 pm CST

Canada’s latest outbreak of bovine tuberculosis in domestic cattle involves a strain of TB bacteria not related to any previously seen in Canadian livestock or wildlife. Culture testing of bacteria taken from a cow confirmed as TB-positive in November shows it’s “not related to past cases of bovine TB in […]

By Dave Bedard

Bovine TB probe expands to Saskatchewan

Dec. 21, 2018 at 9:06 pm CST

Updated, Dec. 24 — Some cattle in Saskatchewan are now under federally imposed movement controls as testing for bovine tuberculosis expands to 14 domestic herds in three provinces. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency announced Friday the tracing of a single case of bovine TB in a beef cow from a […]

By GFM Staff