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Beef Cattle, Hogs, Livestock, Markets, Poultry/Eggs, Reuters

Subway shifting all U.S. meat supplies to no antibiotics, ever

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Chicago | Reuters –– Sandwich chain Subway will start serving antibiotic-free chicken and turkey at its U.S. restaurants next year, and within the next nine years will stop selling any meat from animals given antibiotics, the company said Tuesday. Rivals such as Chipotle Mexican Grill and McDonald’s have announced similar supply-chain shifts, adding pressure on […] Read more
Time will tell if the Aussie beef market maintains its strength.
Cattleman’s Corner, Livestock

Optimism stoked the Australian cattle market

Indicators favoured a strong cattle market in Australia but time will tell if strength will be maintained

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Earlier this year I participated in a webinar sponsored by Meat and Livestock Australia and came away with some incredible optimism and understanding more clearly why the Australian cattle frenzy is continuing. The stars are indeed lining up in 2015 for Australian cattle producers and the new record prices set on a daily basis from […] Read more
Harmony Beef processing plant in limbo pending approvals
Cattleman’s Corner, Livestock

Harmony Beef processing plant in limbo pending approvals

Calgary pressing for a scientific environmental review of packing plant proposal

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The long-anticipated opening of the Harmony Beef processing plant just north of Calgary remains in cold storage, as the company which was supposed to begin operations nearly a year ago awaits some final approvals from Rocky View County. The plant, which was supposed to be operational in late 2014/early 2015, processing between 700 and 800 beef […] Read more
(PortMetroVancouver.com)
Beef Cattle, Canola, Cereals, Crops, Fruit/Vegetables, Hogs, Markets

Dawson: Ag exporters applaud historic TPP deal

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Export-oriented Canadian farmers are giving the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement reached in Atlanta on Monday two thumbs up. The deal, which remains to be debated in Canada’s House of Commons and could take more than a year to be ratified by all 12 member countries, will see tariffs on Canadian products in those markets eliminated […] Read more
(Tkeban Jahannes photo courtesy AtlantaGa.gov via Flickr)
General, Markets

Producer groups lobby for TPP deal in Atlanta

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Several Canadian grain and livestock commodity groups have representatives in Atlanta this week pressing for federal negotiators to keep Canada in play on the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Trade ministers from the 12 TPP countries — also including the U.S., Mexico, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Chile, Peru, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei Darussalam — are meeting in […] Read more
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Beef Cattle, Hogs, Livestock, Poultry/Eggs, Reuters

McDonald’s investor wants it to cut antibiotics in all meats

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Los Angeles | Reuters –– A McDonald’s Corp. shareholder group is renewing its call for the fast-food chain to stop buying any meat from animals raised with antibiotics vital to fighting human infections. The move from the Congregation of Benedictine Sisters of Boerne, Texas, comes amid growing concern from public health experts that the overuse […] Read more
Money to be made in creep feeding calves
Cattleman’s Corner, Livestock

Money to be made in creep feeding calves

At least pencil it out for your farm — you could be leaving $85 per head on the table

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As a beef nutritionist, I have advocated creep feeding spring calves for years. That’s because as feeder cattle prices have steadily risen, there was a real profit due to creep feeding as well as some decent side-benefits. I haven’t changed my position for 2015 and advise each cow-calf operator to calculate their own situation and […] Read more
Cattle market is a tough one to call
Beef Cattle, Cattleman’s Corner, Markets

Cattle market is a tough one to call

Risk of increased 2016 production could throw a wrench into prices

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This past spring, we saw the stars align with all major factors favouring higher beef and cattle prices. Moving into fall of 2015, the cattle market continues the transition phase with growing meat supplies along with softer consumer demand. Alberta packers were buying fed cattle at $182 in mid-August, which was down from the spring […] Read more
Cattle prices going sideways, or may trend down
Cattleman’s Corner, Markets

Cattle prices going sideways, or may trend down

As U.S. and Canadian producers increase production, beef demand appears to be levelling off

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Fed and feeder cattle prices appear to be in transition. All the major factors that drove the cattle and beef complex to historical highs over the past quarter are slowly turning so that it will be difficult for the market to experience further significant upside. The U.S. economic expansion, which drove beef demand to unprecedented […] Read more

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