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Beyond Meat’s new competitor: Tyson’s pea-and-meat blended burger

By GFM Network News June 14, 2019

Reuters — U.S. meat processor Tyson Foods on Thursday launched its first vegetarian and mixed-protein products, including a beef and pea burger, as it seeks to compete with Beyond Meat and other companies catering to rising demand for plant-based alternatives to meat. Tyson is betting that meat eaters wanting healthier diets will see their blend […] Read more

Canada is currently contending with a burdensome beef supply.

Cattleman’s Corner, Livestock, Markets

Higher beef production weighs on cattle complex

Market Update with Jerry Klassen: Consumers will have to eat more beef to compensate

By Jerry Klassen June 6, 2019

In my previous article, we mentioned that the cattle market was in a transition phase. Market-ready supplies of fed cattle during April were relatively tight while beef demand was moving through a seasonal high. The fed and feeder cattle markets softened during May as beef production grew. North American beef demand is considered inelastic so […] Read more

South African beef producer Calla Visser with some of his Bonsmara cattle.

Beef Cattle, Cattleman’s Corner

Hyenas aren’t on Canadian predator list

The world’s beef producers face similar but different challenges

By Chris Mccullough June 5, 2019

Every evening Calla Visser has to round up more than 400 cattle on his farm in eastern Botswana and herd them into outdoor corrals for the night to protect them against theft and predators. And early every morning Calla and his staff start going around the five different corrals on his 6,000-hectare farm counting all […] Read more

Despite lower numbers on finishing operations, slaughter numbers in Canada are about 80,000 head higher than a year ago.

Cattleman’s Corner

Beef complex moving toward higher supplies

Market Update with Jerry Klassen: Already-tight feeder margins expected to be negative by early fall

By Jerry Klassen May 17, 2019

During the last week of April, Alberta packers were buying fed cattle in the range of $160 to $163 on a live basis. The market has been contending with tighter supplies of market-ready cattle south of the border. At the same time, wholesale beef prices have been percolating higher as retail and restaurant demand moves […] Read more

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau meets with steel workers at Stelco in Hamilton on March 13, 2018. (File photo: Reuters/Mark Blinch)

General, Machinery, Markets, Reuters

U.S. boosts trade pact’s outlook lifting tariffs on Canadian, Mexican metals

By GFM Network News May 17, 2019

Washington/Ottawa | Reuters — The United States struck deals on Friday to lift tariffs on steel and aluminum imports from Canada and Mexico, the three governments said, removing a major obstacle to legislative approval of a new North American trade pact. The separate agreements, which will not impose U.S. quotas on Canadian and Mexican metals […] Read more

CME May 2019 lean hogs with 20-, 50- and 100-day moving averages. (Barchart)

Livestock, Markets, Reuters

U.S. livestock: CME hogs push higher as herds in China suffer from virus

By GFM Network News April 15, 2019

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. hog futures closed mostly higher on Monday on increasing expectations that China will need to import more pork to compensate for hogs killed in an outbreak of an incurable swine disease. The front-month contract, which is thinly traded, set its highest price in about 21 months as the market rose […] Read more

Sean McGrath has some more thoughts on what might benefit the Canadian beef industry.

Cattleman’s Corner, Livestock

A vision of what the beef industry needs: Part 2

Canadian beef industry needs to think big to optimize its potential

By Sean McGrath March 1, 2019

Editor’s Note: This is part two of a three-part series by Alberta rancher and consultant Sean McGrath with some thoughts on actions to improve the Canadian beef industry. In Part 1, McGrath outlined the value of developing a vision statement for his own farm. Here are more thoughts on what he might include in a […] Read more

The proposal to increase checkoff funding for Beef Farmers of Ontario passed with a significant majority this year. (John Greig photo)

Beef Cattle, Livestock

Ontario beef checkoff to rise by $1.50

By GFM Network News February 20, 2019

Ontario beef farmers have approved an increase of $1.50 in checkoff per animal to fund an ambitious industry-wide marketing effort for Ontario beef. Producers at the Beef Farmers of Ontario (BFO) annual meeting in Mississauga on Wednesday voted 87 per cent in favour of the plan. A similar plan was rejected at last year’s annual […] Read more

Galloway beef genetics used in a cross-breeding program have helped to produce a very efficient beef herd on Rainer Krumsiek’s beef operation near Horsefly, B.C. Along with beef, they also produced pasture finished pork and lamb for direct-to-consumer sales.

Cattleman’s Corner, Livestock

B.C. ranch caters to consumer segment

Customers looking for naturally raised and animal welfare certification

By Heather Smith Thomas February 19, 2019

While his B.C. Cariboo Region ranch may between six to eight hours drive from major population markets, Rainer Krumsiek hasn’t let distance get in the way of developing a successful pasture-raised and finished meat business. Krumsiek, at Big Bear Ranch near Horsefly, (a small town in central B.C.) about 15 years ago started using Galloway […] Read more

Strip steak with mushrooms. (Photo courtesy Canada Beef Inc.)

General, Markets, Reuters

Pacific pact spurs Canadian ag sales to Japan as U.S. watches

By Rod Nickel, GFM Network News January 10, 2019

Winnipeg | Reuters — At the Canadian embassy in Tokyo last month, beef promoters flew in a chef from Canada to cook New York strip steaks for hungry Japanese importers and restaurant suppliers. The annual Canadian beef buffet reception attracted 126 people, up sharply from the usual 30 to 40. A trade deal among Pacific […] Read more

U.S. livestock: Feeder contracts set fresh highs

U.S. grains: Soybeans, corn choppy as trade awaits U.S. crop tour results

Livestock Tax Deferral regions announced for drought-affected producers

GFM Network News