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Prairie forecast: Winter settles in

Forecast issued Nov. 20, covering Nov. 20 to 27, 2024

By Daniel Bezte November 20, 2024

You might be happy to know (or maybe not) that for this forecast period we should see a quieter but colder weather pattern across the Prairies. Arctic high pressure will be pulled southwards behind the eastern Prairie low and brings the first really taste of winter.

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

Beef Cattle, Livestock, Markets

Klassen: Feeder market climbs another step

By Jerry Klassen November 19, 2024

For the week ending November 16, Western Canadian calves over 650 pounds were up $3-$6/cwt compared to seven days earlier. Calves under 650 pounds traded $4/cwt to as much as $10/cwt higher.

Livestock, Markets

Klassen: Strong demand continues to sustain feeder market

By Jerry Klassen November 12, 2024

The weaker Canadian dollar has enhanced the feeding margin structure on incoming replacement calves and this translated into stronger values on premium genetic packages. Finishing feedlot operators in Alberta and Ontario were fairly aggressive in Manitoba and Saskatchewan markets.

The Doerksens of Gemstone Grass Fed Beef, from left: Lorin with wife Katie and children Norah, Josie, and Lucy; at centre, Daniel with wife Kim and children Gradey, Kyleah and Bowden; at right, Barry with wife Karla and kids Jake and Stanley.

Beef Cattle, Features

Lorin, Barry and Daniel Doerksen

Outstanding Young Farmers 2024: The cattle’s performance on grass and forages becomes part of the beef’s story at retail

By Lee Hart November 8, 2024

What started out as a plan to supply a niche market in the beef industry has over the past six years turned into the focus for a fourth-generation southeastern Alberta ranching operation. For the Doerksen brothers of Gemstone Cattle Company at Gem, Alta., about an hour north of Brooks, putting some of the efficient beef […] Read more

Weather

Prairie forecast: Mild weather returns

Forecast issued Nov. 6, covering Nov. 6 to 13, 2024

By Daniel Bezte November 6, 2024

The weather models are showing an area of low pressure tracking across northern Canada on Wednesday and Thursday. This, combined with a digging trough of low pressure off the West Coast, will open the door for mild air to flood across the Prairies—first from the Pacific then from the western U.S.

Columns, Practical Tips

Memories of a great Albertan

Practical Research: Fifteen years after his passing, Joseph Gurba's long reach through the province’s farming history remains

By Ieuan Evans November 5, 2024

I was offered the position of provincial plant pathologist for Alberta Agriculture by Joe Gurba, head of the crop protection branch, in August 1974. I was at the time an assistant professor at the University of Guelph, more interested in rugby coaching than in basic plant disease research. Joe told me the provincewide position would […] Read more

Beef Cattle, Livestock, Markets

Klassen: Feeder market holds at higher levels

By Jerry Klassen November 5, 2024

For the week ending November 2, Western Canadian yearling and calf markets were relatively unchanged from seven days earlier. Strong demand continues to support the feeder complex at historical high prices.

A late-October cornfield in southeastern Manitoba. Photo: Geralyn Wichers

Weather

Prairie forecast: Warmer weather to continue

Forecast issued Oct. 30, covering Oct. 30 to Nov. 6, 2024

By Daniel Bezte October 30, 2024

For this forecast period, as we work into what's often the first month of winter across the Prairies, it looks like the current warmer and drier-than-average pattern of the last two months will continue. Now, to be fair, we need to realize that we are transitioning into winter. Average temperatures are cooling, so though the forecasting is calling for above-average temperatures, those temperatures are getting cooler and cooler.

Beef Cattle, Livestock, Markets

Klassen: Western Canadian calf market surges

By Jerry Klassen October 29, 2024

For the week ending 26, Western Canadian calf markets were up $8-$12/cwt on average compared to seven days earlier. Pee-wee calves were up $20-$25/cwt compared to the prior week. Finishing feedlot operators were active buyers in all weight categories while backgrounders were cleaning up on smaller packages of calves under 550 pounds.

Al Oeming’s Edmonton-area game farm, shown here in the 1963 film 'Noah of the North,' served as a reservoir for vanishing and even vanished animal species.

Columns, Livestock, Practical Tips

Where species conservation was the aim of the game

Practical Research: The Alberta Game Farm was the visionary innovation of a remarkable Canadian

By Ieuan Evans October 24, 2024

When I moved from Guelph to Edmonton in 1974, I quickly found out Alberta had the world’s biggest and most innovative game farm. It was called the Alberta Game Farm, later called Polar Park, some 25 km west of the city. This farm, situated on 500 hectares (1,236 acres), was truly incredible. The huge open-air […] Read more

U.S. livestock: Hog futures hit contract highs on shock herd decline

Alberta Crop Report: Harvest more than three-quarters finished

NFU says proposed plant breeders’ rights come at farmers’ expense

GFM Network News

U.S. livestock: Hog futures hit contract highs on shock herd decline

Alberta Crop Report: Harvest more than three-quarters finished

NFU says proposed plant breeders’ rights come at farmers’ expense

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Prairie forecast: Winter settles in

Klassen: Feeder market climbs another step

Klassen: Strong demand continues to sustain feeder market

Lorin, Barry and Daniel Doerksen

Prairie forecast: Mild weather returns

Memories of a great Albertan

Klassen: Feeder market holds at higher levels

Prairie forecast: Warmer weather to continue

Klassen: Western Canadian calf market surges

Where species conservation was the aim of the game

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