Insights and Stories on Ranchers

Coalition seeks farmers, ranchers to join climate change forum

Nov. 27, 2023 at 8:29 am CST

A farmer-led group is hoping to cut through the politics surrounding climate issues by bringing together a diverse group of Prairie farmers and ranchers for discussions around sustainability. “There’s a number of loud voices that tend to dominate the conversations,” says Ian McCreary, a grain and cattle farmer from Bladworth, […]

Rabobank to offer Canadian farm-level lending

Jan. 13, 2023 at 5:50 am CST

By Dave Bedard

B.C. presses for ranchers to register before wildfires hit

Jul. 3, 2021 at 5:22 am CDT

By Dave Bedard

More Mexican beef headed to U.S. dinner tables as supply crunch bites

May. 13, 2020 at 11:37 pm CDT

By David Alire Garcia P.J. Huffstutter

Alberta to lengthen public leases for ‘exemplary’ ranching

Jul. 12, 2019 at 9:36 pm CDT

By GFM Staff

Trump to slap more tariffs on Chinese goods

Sep. 17, 2018 at 8:25 pm CDT

Washington | Reuters | Updated Sept. 18, 2018 — U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday he will impose 10 per cent U.S. tariffs on about US$200 billion worth of Chinese imports, but he spared smart watches from Apple and Fitbit and other consumer products such as bicycle helmets and […]

By David Lawder Jeff Mason

NAFTA nations ‘nowhere near’ a deal, USTR says

May. 17, 2018 at 6:54 pm CDT

Washington/New York | Reuters — The top U.S. trade official on Thursday poured cold water on the prospect of an imminent breakthrough in talks to rework the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) hours after Canada’s prime minister struck a positive note. “The NAFTA countries are nowhere near close to […]

By David Lawder Jonathan Spicer

Farmers seen harder hit by opioid crisis than rest of rural U.S.

Nov. 30, 2017 at 4:39 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — The opioid crisis in the United States is impacting farm and ranch families more acutely than their rural neighbours, according to a survey published by the American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF) and the U.S. National Farmers Union on Thursday. About three-quarters of farmers and ranchers surveyed […]

By Karl Plume

Communities rally around producers in wildfires’ wake

Oct. 24, 2017 at 8:29 pm CDT

Ranchers, farmers and rural residents who suffered losses, injuries and more in recent wildfires in southeastern Alberta and southwestern Saskatchewan are seeing support from neighbours and beyond. Alongside a number of online campaigns launched in support of affected farmers and families, the Saskatchewan Stock Growers Association on Monday launched a […]

By Staff

Major Alberta cattle feeder set to shut feedlots

Sep. 21, 2016 at 2:59 pm CDT

Reuters — One of Canada’s biggest cattle feeding operations, Western Feedlots, said Wednesday it will close feeding operations after marketing the cattle it currently owns, due to poor market conditions. Closure of Western’s feeding operations, likely early in 2017 once its current cattle are sold, will make it more difficult […]

By Rod Nickel