Livestock Management
Socialism can be a good idea, at least when it comes to egg-laying hens, say researchers at Purdue University. William Muir, an animal science professor at Purdue’s campus in Lafayette, Indiana, has found that focusing on the number of eggs produced by a group is more beneficial than breeding the most productive individual birds. “We […] Read more
Livestock Management
Hens that play together, lay together
Sustained release drugs ideal in feedlots – Animal Health
Sustained release products developed for cattle are revolutionizing the way we treat pneumonic calves in Canadian feedlots. Draxxin, developed by Pfizer, is a play on “duration of action.” There was a need to develop a long-acting product because multiple doses of long duration products like Nuflor or Micotil were given in feedlots. The active ingredient […] Read more
Niche markets key to export growth
The continuing global recession and weakening meat demand have reduced beef and cattle prices worldwide, says Richard Brown, the British representative for Gira, a European agriculture and food market research firm. However, livestock herds are shrinking in number around the world and prices did not dip as catastrophically as they might have when the financial […] Read more
Study rejects supply managed hogs
The recent hog crisis has led to calls at Ontario hog producer meetings this summer to consider a supply management system. As in the dairy, poultry and egg sectors, supply management would limit supply, control imports and set prices at profitable levels. The industry would produce for a protected domestic market. A report prepared for […] Read more
Canfax report – for Oct. 1, 2009
This cattle market information is selected from the weekly report from Canfax, a division of the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association. More market information, analysis and statistics are available by becoming a Canfax subscriber by calling 403-275-5110 or at www.canfax.ca. Fed cattle prices drop Falling North American wholesale beef prices and lackluster U.S. packer demand pressured fed […] Read more
Mustard reports puzzle trade
Mustard traders are bewildered by reports that bids fell as low as 14 cents per pound last week. “All I can tell you is right now it’s business as usual,” said a trader who requested anonymity. He can’t figure out where the reports of 14-cent bids for yellow mustard are coming from. He is offering […] Read more
U.S. hog surplus weighs on prices
American farmers are only slightly reducing their sow numbers, dragging out the current crisis until at least next summer, analysts say. The three percent year-on-year decline in sow numbers reported in the U.S. Department of Agriculture quarterly Hogs and Pigs report was slightly higher than most trade expectations, but it wasn’t a big enough surprise […] Read more
Alberta auctions receive market news
Alberta auction markets will deliver up-to-the-minute livestock news to customers by the end of the month. Communications officials from Alberta Beef Producers and the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association will help install large, flat screen televisions at Perlich Bros. auction mart in Lethbridge and Vold Jones Vold in Ponoka. The TVs will deliver the latest agriculture news, […] Read more
U of S event sheds light on veterinary medicine
Have you ever wanted to feel inside a cow’s stomach? Or find out what you can do with a degree in veterinary medicine? You’ll get your chance Oct. 1-4 when the Western College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Saskatchewan hosts VetaVision. Held every three years, VetaVision is a collection of interactive displays designed […] Read more
Livestock tax scheme survives
A Conservative government budget promise to give a tax break to prairie farmers forced to sell breeding stock because of flood or drought is on its way into law. It was included in a budget bill approved overwhelmingly by the House of Commons Sept. 18, giving the minority Conservative government at least a limited reprieve […] Read more
