Livestock Management
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 rise Packers cleaned up their backlog last week and moved to a more current position. […] Read more
Livestock Management
Canfax report – for Sep. 24, 2009
Returning cattle face extra fee
Thousands of cattle will head home to Alberta this fall after spending the summer in Saskatchewan. In the northwest region alone, 23,000 to 26,000 cattle from Alberta graze in Saskatchewan each summer. Each time the cattle move over the border, their owners are required to pay inspection fees. Some producers say that is one cost […] Read more
Nominees picked for Sask. cattle group election
Twenty-six producers have been nominated for a spot on the first-ever elected board of the Saskatchewan Cattlemen’s Association. Nominations closed Sept. 15 for the 11 positions based on the nine provincial crop districts. Districts 3 and 9 were split in two because of their large cattle populations. Three of the nominees are automatically on the […] 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
Stem rust breakthrough near
Researchers in North Dakota are on the cusp of offering better protection to the world’s wheat crops against a deadly fungus that threatens yields around the globe. Scientists at the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Cereal Crops Research Unit in Fargo have developed a line of wheat containing the Sr39 gene, which is highly resistant to […] Read more
More GM flax reported in Germany
Reports of food containing a de-registered genetically modified flax variety continue to filter in from Europe in the wake of the first notification issued on Sept. 8 that shut down trade with Canada’s largest flax customer. The European Commission’s Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed has issued four more notifications of suspected contamination from […] Read more
Help sought for rural Canada – Opinion
Dobrowolski is president of the Association of Manitoba Municipalities. Johnson is president of the Alberta Association of Municipal Districts and Counties. Marit is president of the Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities. The pioneers of municipal government would be astonished to see today’s council agenda. Elected officials are doing everything from recruiting doctors from around the […] Read more
Cattle deaths net charges
Two men from the Outlook, Sask., area have been charged after nearly 300 cattle were seized from their property last March. Wayne Robinson, 53, and Barrett Robinson, 26, both face two counts under the Criminal Code for causing unnecessary suffering to cattle. The pair will appear in Outlook provincial court Oct. 8. Outlook RCMP sgt. […] Read more
