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Klassen: Calm feeder market prior to fall run

By Jerry Klassen August 1, 2017

Reading Time: 2 minutes Western Canadian feeder cattle markets were hard to define over the past week given the limited numbers on offer. Most sale barns remain in holiday mode and the few cattle coming on the market were of various quality. Lighter weight feeders were trading $3 to as much as $10 lower compared to week ago levels; […] Read more

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Klassen: Feeder market firm despite outside influences

By Jerry Klassen July 25, 2017

Reading Time: 2 minutes Western Canadian feeder cattle markets were unchanged from week-ago levels despite the strengthening Canadian dollar, stronger feed grain values and weaker fed cattle prices. Feedlot operators are wondering if this is a mockery, a delusion or a snare. Shorter term replacements are hard to come by and haven’t softened a half hair length. Small groups […] Read more

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Saskatchewan offers provincial pasture leases to patron groups

By Country Guide Staff June 15, 2017

Reading Time: 2 minutes Cattle producers using provincial pastures heading into the final three years of the Saskatchewan Pastures Program (SPP) will get the first chance at leasing them. The province announced in March it would wind down the SPP, kicking off a public consultation process. Based on those consultations, the province confirmed Thursday it will grant the 50 […] Read more

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Alberta Beef Producers call for TB financial support

By Country Guide Staff November 4, 2016

Reading Time: 2 minutes With cattle under quarantine in parts of Alberta after a TB case was discovered in an animal from that province at a U.S. slaughter facility, the bills are starting to stack up. Alberta Beef Producers (ABP) recently said in an online publication that a significant number of herds have been quarantined and the producers notified. […] Read more

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VIDEO: What cattle buyers want

There's more than one way to sell a calf these days

By Lisa Guenther May 24, 2016

Reading Time: < 1 minute Country Guide reporter Lisa Guenther caught up with Sean McGrath of Round Rock Ranching to find out how he and his family sell their calves. The McGrath family ranch south of Vermilion, Alta, and they’ve sold into a variety of beef programs. In this video interview, McGrath talks about what those buyers are looking for.

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Feed was ‘most plausible’ source of BSE in Case 19

By Country Guide Staff December 3, 2015

Reading Time: 4 minutes Canada’s food safety agency is still tracking down the last herdmates of the country’s 19th domestic case of BSE, but will otherwise assume the Alberta cow most likely caught the disease from traces of proteins in its early feed. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency on Nov. 30 submitted its final report on Case 19 — […] Read more

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Klassen: Feeder cattle prices stabilize

By Jerry Klassen August 4, 2015

Reading Time: 2 minutes Western Canadian feeder cattle prices found some footing this past week trading at similar levels to seven days earlier. Auction market volumes consisted of stragglers and late bloomers with minimal numbers on offer; buyers on hand continue to promote the scarcity principle which caused the market to stabilize. Feedlots operators were quite aggressive on 800 […] Read more

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Klassen: Various views on the feeder cattle market

By Jerry Klassen July 27, 2015

Reading Time: 2 minutes If you talked to three Western Canadian cattle buyers this week, you probably would receive four different views on the market. Certain auction barns were reflecting an average week-over-week decline of $3 to $5 but feature strings of cattle were back up to historical high prices. Early sales in the season are like tryouts at a […] Read more

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Klassen: Softer beef complex weighs on feeders

By Jerry Klassen July 21, 2015

Reading Time: 2 minutes Western Canadian feeder cattle experienced a week-over-week decline of $3 to $6 on average. In central Alberta, the market appeared to hold value on larger strings of quality feeders but the market in all other regions of the Prairies appeared to lack buying enthusiasm. Alberta fed cattle prices were quoted in the range of $186 […] Read more

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Sask. to open protected grasslands for grazing

By Country Guide Staff July 14, 2015

Reading Time: 2 minutes Crown-held native prairie and other grasslands held for wildlife conservation in Saskatchewan will be opened up to ranchers needing grazing land for cattle in dry areas. Environment Minister Herb Cox announced Tuesday the province will make about 90,000 acres of Fish and Wildlife Development Fund (FWDF) land available to cattle producers. The same grazing lease […] Read more

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Klassen: Calm feeder market prior to fall run

Klassen: Feeder market firm despite outside influences

Saskatchewan offers provincial pasture leases to patron groups

Alberta Beef Producers call for TB financial support

VIDEO: What cattle buyers want

Feed was ‘most plausible’ source of BSE in Case 19

Klassen: Feeder cattle prices stabilize

Klassen: Various views on the feeder cattle market

Klassen: Softer beef complex weighs on feeders

Sask. to open protected grasslands for grazing

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