Livestock Management
BROOKS, Alta. – Chance Martin has won the Canadian livestock auctioneer championship and is ready to take on the world. The 36-year-old auctioneer and beef producer from Red Deer won the national championship May 29 in Brooks. He has competed in the national competition every year since it started 12 years ago. There were 25 […] Read more
Livestock Management
Alberta auctioneer wins championship
Cattle group takes steps to increase age verification
The Manitoba Cattle Producers Association will soon hire a full-time staff member charged with boosting the number of age verified cattle in the province. As well, the new employee will inform producers about the issues of traceability, food safety and biosecurity. “We want to continue to be forward moving and forward thinking and progressive in […] Read more
Threats to community pastures
Home, home on the range. Those words normally conjure up a warm, nostalgic feeling in the pit of a cattle producer’s stomach. But if the range is a community pasture and the producer’s cattle come home open and diseased, then nostalgia can quickly give way to anger and frustration. Eugene Janzen, assistant dean of clinical […] Read more
Air filtration helps control disease: study
DES MOINES, Iowa – Gilles Routhier was working busily at the World Pork Expo, extolling the virtues of the air filtration systems his Quebec-based company sells to minimize disease outbreaks in hog barns. A few dozen metres away, a leading U.S. swine veterinarian had just revealed studies that showed air filtration is the most important […] Read more
Age verification a Sask. concern
MOOSE JAW, Sask. – Saskatchewan producers trying to decide whether to age verify their cattle didn’t find many answers during a recent livestock conference. Industry representatives participating in a debate during the Saskatchewan Stock Growers Association’s meeting in Moose Jaw last week presented different views on the need for age verification, whether it should be […] Read more
Cattle group says environment plan simple, affordable
It used to be uncommon to hear Canadian cattle industry officials talking like European Union bureaucrats. But Manitoba Cattle Producers Association policy analyst Shane Sadorski was talking the same language as the Europeans and some Canadian farm groups two weeks ago. “How do we achieve the most multifunctionality off the land,” asked Sadorski, before describing […] Read more
B.C. seeks ideas to boost beef sector
KAMLOOPS, B.C. – British Columbia’s premier wants a ranching task force to meet soon to rebuild the province’s flagging beef industry, but he warned the government has little money to invest in new ideas. “We are not going to agree to everything you pass,” Gordon Campbell told the B.C. Cattlemen’s Association annual meeting in Kamloops […] Read more
Beef centre carves out new niche markets
KAMLOOPS, B.C. – Health scares and politics create a maze-like challenge for Beef Information Centre employees promoting Canadian beef. BIC chief executive officer Glenn Brand said country-of-origin labelling continues to stymie Canadian exports to the United States, partly because fewer packers want to deal with beef from multiple countries. “COOL is a significant threat to […] Read more
CCIA improves services
KAMLOOPS, B.C. – The Canadian Cattle Identification Agency is revamping its technical side and expanding services. “The organization and the needs of the industry started changing several years ago, but we didn’t grow or change to do it,” said executive director Kerry St. Cyr, who took over the agency last year. The changes include making […] Read more
B.C. livestock compensation to expand
KAMLOOPS, B.C. – A pilot project to compensate cattle producers may expand to include other livestock killed by predators on British Columbia ranges. The B.C. predator loss control and compensation program started in 2002 and groups like the B.C. Cattlemen’s Association are developing a new business plan and budget to continue the program to cover […] Read more
