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It’s not too late to creep-feed spring calves

Better Bunks and Pastures: Analysis says this could be a highly profitable year to creep-feed calves

By Peter Vitti September 23, 2024

A friend of mine operates a 300-cow-calf operation. This year, he put out his creep feeders during the end of July and his March-born calves really haven’t eaten much creep-feed in the last month. That’s because his pastures are still lush and his cows are milking well. He joked that he is ready to lock […] Read more

Beef Cattle, Cattleman’s Corner, Columns

How to manage two similar livestock pharmaceuticals

Animal Health: Subtle differences can give one medication an advantage over another

By Roy Lewis September 13, 2024

This article provides some clarity for when new products or combinations of products come onto the market. These days all antimicrobials, NSAIDs and a few other products are prescription products and most come under the VCPR (veterinary-client-patient relationship). The two products in this case have already been on the market for years, but now, with no […] Read more

Beef Cattle, Cattleman’s Corner, Columns, Markets

Beef demand made seasonal highs in July

The Markets: Cattle markets have started to grind lower, but the feeder market has held

By Jerry Klassen August 20, 2024

The beef market appears to have made a seasonal high during the first week of July. Wholesale choice beef prices reached up to US$329/cwt during the week ending July 6 before fading to US$319/cwt during the third week of July. Weaker wholesale values have resulted in lower U.S. fed cattle values. During the first week […] Read more

Beef Cattle, Livestock, Reuters

China shuts cattle farm after anthrax outbreak, five human infections

By Reuters August 6, 2024

China's eastern Shandong province reported five people were infected with anthrax and a beef cattle farm was shut after an outbreak was discovered in the agricultural province.

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

Beef Cattle, Cattleman’s Corner, Markets

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

Left to right: Nathan Phinney, Canadian Cattle Association president, Lawrence MacAulay, federal ag minister, Eric Bienvenue, president of Canada Beef. PHOTO: AAFC

Livestock, News

Feds announce $6 million beef marketing boost

By Jeff Melchior July 8, 2024

Canada Beef and the Canadian Cattle Association (CCA) are receiving up to $5,865,110 and $453,364 respectively for marketing activities such as advertising, trade missions, technical training and educational seminars.

The beef cattle industry is bracing for a level of heifer retention this summer and fall that's expected to lower the feeder cattle supply.

Cattleman’s Corner, Markets

Lower feedlot placements support cattle market

Cow-calf producers should think about selling calves in late summer versus fall

By Jerry Klassen May 29, 2024

During the last week of April, Alberta packers were buying fed cattle on a live basis in the range of $256-$258 per hundredweight delivered, up $18/cwt from three weeks earlier. Alberta fed cattle basis levels have strengthened as market-ready supplies tighten. In Kansas and Texas, live sales, f.o.b. feedlot, were reported at US$182/cwt, down US$3/cwt […] Read more

Beef Cattle, Columns, Editor's column

Editor’s Rant: Fluency in flu

By Dave Bedard April 27, 2024

When this issue hits your mailbox (on or around May 7), we’ll be at about the peak of one of the best meteor showers Earth sees this year. Wishing on shooting stars is silly at best, but if I see one — other than my standing wish for seven bucks and the winning 6/49 ticket […] Read more

File photo of cattle being rounded up at a southern Alberta ranch. (Design Pics/Getty Images)

General, Livestock

Beef stakeholders invited to weigh in on code of practice

Canada’s Code of Practice for the Care and Handling of Beef Cattle to be updated

By Alexis Kienlen, GFM Network News April 11, 2024

The Canadian Cattle Association has initiated an update to the Code of Practice for the Care and Handling of Beef Cattle.

General, Livestock

Seventeen U.S. states restrict cattle imports from avian flu-infected areas

By Jeff Melchior, GFM Network News April 10, 2024

Several U.S. states have restricted cattle imports from states that have seen infections of avian influenza Type A H5N1 in dairy herds.

GFM Network News

Feds pause update on food from cloned livestock

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures end limit down

AAFC makes few changes to November S/D report

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