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Pretreated calves usually need a booster for mycoplasma once they arrive at a feedlot.

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Lower stress, lower mycoplasma

Animal Health: The secondary respiratory and joint disease can be limited with prevention

By Roy Lewis August 2, 2024

Feedlot owners and backgrounders across this country always have one question for me: “Is there anything new out there to combat mycoplasma?” While there are a couple of vaccines licensed for cattle, they do require multiple shots. Vaccines help, but focusing on decreasing stress and other diseases can limit mycoplasma infection. Mycoplasma comes in many […] Read more

Mark Kihn was the owner and publisher of the Charolais Banner. Photo: Supplied

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Farm writer and political fundraiser Mark Kihn passes

By Lisa Guenther July 31, 2024

After a long struggle with cancer, Mark Kihn, the former owner and publisher of the Charolais Banner, has died. Outside the beef industry, Kihn is likely best known for his work fundraising for Stephen Harper, rustling up over $3.5 million for Harper’s two leadership campaigns.

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U.S. livestock: Live cattle futures surge on cash market, GDP data

By Renee Hickman July 25, 2024

Chicago | Reuters – Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) cattle futures climbed on Thursday, as prices in the cash market rose and signs of strength appeared in the U.S. economy, market analysts said. At one point during the session, the most-active October live cattle futures contract LCV24 surged up to 189.050 cents per pound – the highest price […] Read more

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Brazil beef output to hit record in 2024, Conab says

By Roberto Samora July 25, 2024

Sao Paulo | Reuters – Brazil’s beef production is expected to reach a record 10.19 million metric tons in 2024, national crop agency Conab said on Thursday, a 7.1 per cent year-on-year increase that would eclipse the current all-time high set in 2006. Beef exports from the South American country are seen reaching 3.44 million […] Read more

File photo of cattle in an Alberta feedlot. (Geralyn Wichers photo)

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Klassen: Feeder market leaps higher

By Jerry Klassen July 23, 2024

For the week ending July 20, Western Canadian yearlings traded $8-$15 above prices from seven days earlier. Values for larger groups of quality calves were up $8 to $10 from a week earlier while run of the mill smaller packages were relatively unchanged.

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How to manage beef cow summer mineral intake

Better Bunks and Pastures: Most solutions are found with common sense and changing practices

By Peter Vitti July 23, 2024

A long time ago, I helped a producer feed loose mineral to his herd of 60 beef cows. It was at the start of summer and during their breeding season. We’d just rip open a couple of bags and pour the mineral into an old wooden crate near a full dugout of drinking water. Often, […] Read more

Feed was plentiful for cattle at Ag In Motion, unlike the challenges beef producers had to acquire enough feed during the past few years of drought on the Prairies. Photo: John Greig

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Beef experts share lessons learned from three years of drought

By John Greig July 19, 2024

Prairie beef farmers were forced to find new feed sources, learn new processes and make difficult decisions in managing their feed inventories in the past few years.

File photo of cattle on feed near Champion, Alta., about 75 km north of Lethbridge. (James_Gabbert/iStock/Getty Images)

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Tighter fed cattle supplies support feeder market

U.S. beef producers are not yet holding back enough heifers for expansion

By Jerry Klassen July 9, 2024

During the first week of June, Alberta packers were buying fed cattle on a live basis at $261 per hundredweight, f.o.b, feedlot in southern Alberta, up $4/cwt from a month earlier. Market-ready supplies of fed cattle were sharply above year-ago levels earlier in winter, but the backlog has slowly been alleviated through the spring period. […] Read more

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Klassen: Buyers tasting feeder cattle prices for fall run

By Jerry Klassen July 9, 2024

For the week ending July 2, Western Canadian yearling prices were steady to $5 higher compared to seven days earlier for larger packages. Small groups of 800-pound-plus cattle were $10 to $15 discounted to pen-sized lots. Calf markets were relatively unchanged from the prior week, although volume was limited. There is significant open demand for yearlings and finishing feedlot operators are watching how prices develop.

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Guelph Cargill strike vote to take place Saturday

By Glacier FarmMedia staff July 4, 2024

Striking workers at Cargill's Dunlop beef processing plant in Guelph have a recommended memorandum of settlement in place and they will vote on the possible deal on Saturday.

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U.S. grains: Corn drops to 12-week low on report of massive stocks, record harvest

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures rise, hogs fall on WASDE

Resignation of Saskatchewan wheat breeder draws concern

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