Livestock Management

The time may be ripe for a mandatory price reporting in Alberta. The Alberta Beef Producers annual meeting in Calgary Dec. 4, passed a resolution recommending mandatory price reporting on all cattle slaughtered provincially. “The logic of going to mandatory price reporting is that we are missing a few pieces of information in Canada as […] Read more

Alberta is losing its competitive edge as a champion cattle feeding region, according to a recent report commissioned by cattle groups in the province. “The cattle feeding sector in Alberta is, or already has, lost its economic advantage upon which the industry was built back in the 1980s and 1990s,” a consulting company wrote in […] Read more

REGINA – When international guests visit Canadian Western Agribition they can see elite purebred cattle with their polished hoofs and coifed coats, but the reality of what Canadian cattle can do is seen in the commercial barns. The commercial component of the sale has been running almost since Agribition began 36 years ago. A highlight […] Read more

REGINA – Crystal Young had a good feeling when she entered the Simmental sales ring at Canadian Western Agribition with her pure black heifer. The bidding kept going up until the hammer came down on $15,000, selling Young’s 2006 black heifer to Austin McGuire of Calgary, who is just entering the business. “It is exciting […] Read more

REGINA – It may be exciting to win champion banners, but the proof of a winning program is in the money. “Banners don’t pay the bills,” said Peter Boake after he sold a half interest in a bull for $20,000, to a consortium of buyers at the Canadian Western Agribition Shorthorn sale. They obtained half […] Read more

REGINA – Having the high selling animal at Canadian Western Agribition remains a thrill even for the seasoned breeders who have stepped into the spotlight more than once. Dave Hasson and his family of Ariss, Ont., have known that excitement with their Red Angus cattle that come to Agribition every year. The family switched to […] Read more

REGINA – A yearling Gelbvieh heifer named Ston Miss Paradee 64R was the apple of Leila Hickman’s eye when she was approached to sell. It took some gentle persuasion to convince her and husband Darrell to offer the bred female for sale at the Canadian Western Agribition. The red heifer caught everyone else’s eye when […] Read more

REGINA – After living on the windswept hills of Scotland all his life, one of Duncan Maxwell’s first decisions upon landing in Regina was to buy a Canadian-made parka to handle the bone numbing wind chill of a Saskatchewan winter. Invited to judge the Galloway show at Canadian Western Agribition, Maxwell experienced the cold but […] Read more