Insights and Stories on Pasture

Beef sector aims for new 2030 targets

Sep. 22, 2020 at 8:50 pm CDT

The Canadian beef industry has new benchmarks to reach for in the next decade. The organizations involved in Canada’s National Beef Strategy — the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association, Canada Beef Breeds Council, Beef Cattle Research Council, Canada Beef, The National Cattle Feeders’ Association, Canadian Meat Council and Canadian Roundtable for Sustainable […]

Klassen: Yearling prices on fire

Aug. 25, 2020 at 2:16 am CDT

By Jerry Klassen

Klassen: Feeder cattle market drawing attention

Jul. 28, 2020 at 9:25 am CDT

By Jerry Klassen

U.S. livestock: Live cattle continue lower on unclear outlook

Jul. 22, 2020 at 5:09 pm CDT

By Christopher Walljasper

Klassen: Feeder market looking firm for fall

Jul. 21, 2020 at 12:04 am CDT

By Jerry Klassen

Klassen: Feeder cattle market experiences mixed tone

Jun. 29, 2020 at 11:04 pm CDT

Compared to last week, western Canadian feeder cattle sold $2 higher to as much as $4 lower. Larger groups of uniform cattle once again carried a premium but the bulk of feeders were small packages of various quality. Buyers were more aggressive on the 700- to 850-lb. weight categories as […]

By Jerry Klassen

Cattle volumes remain low as pasture conditions improve

Jul. 29, 2019 at 4:13 pm CDT

MarketsFarm – Manitoba cattle markets observed characteristically light volumes during week ended July 26, due in part to improving pasture conditions. “There hasn’t been any panic-selling in the western and southern parts of the province,” agreed Rick Wright of Heartland Order Buying Co. Wright mentioned the Northeast region of the […]

By Marlo Glass – MarketsFarm

Manitoba to open up Crown lands for grazing, haying

Jul. 9, 2019 at 7:11 am CDT

Some Manitoba Crown lands not generally used for grazing or haying will be made available for temporary lease to producers this summer and fall. Citing “dry conditions in parts of the province,” the Manitoba government announced Monday that livestock producers “will temporarily be allowed to cut hay and allow animals […]

By GFM Staff

Feed weekly outlook: World weather buoys barley

Jul. 5, 2019 at 8:28 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Canadian feed barley prices are being buoyed by a triple threat of weather circumstances both locally and abroad. Three years of dry growing conditions in Australia have tightened global feed barley supplies to the point that domestic Canadian prices have increased. Current feed barley bids are topping out […]

By Marlo Glass – MarketsFarm

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. […]

By Rod Nickel

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