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April 25, 2024 Business Tools
Cracking the code on grazing management technology
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April 24, 2024 Checking in with ABP
Reduce, Reuse, Ruminate documentary premiers on Stop Food Waste Day
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April 24, 2024 Health & Production
Importance of maintaining cow weight after calving
April 28, 2022
Health & Production
From the ground up – Grazing 101
Where ever your feet are planted – they stand on the future of the beef business. It is the soil that is foundational to the long-term resiliency of our farms and ranches, supporting healthy herds and cattle feeding operations. Grazing management has to compliment that soil and build it up; be that in hard or…
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April 14, 2022
Issues & Insights
Building the best beef team
The beef industry is changing. Cattle are forward contracted at a historic volume; consolidation is rampant and foreign ownership is threading itself throughout the industry. Identity and certified programs capture much of the market through to slaughter, while feeder cattle continue to swap countries just as readily as they do provincial borders. Export markets demand…
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December 7, 2021
Issues & Insights
Invitation to a longer table with beef at the centre of the plate
At the heart of every beef operation is her people. Those passionate and committed persons who strive to produce the best possible food. Behind the hard-working cow calf, yearling, backgrounding and cattle-feeding operators, are families and teams of employees, scientists, farmers, veterinarians and a multitude of service providers. Like most things in life, they are in integrated…
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October 29, 2021
Business Tools
Marketing with a focus on health and welfare
As the days of summer fade away and we face the briskness of fall it is time to carefully consider livestock marketing plans for the farm and ranch. Traditionally, this time of year is referred to as ‘the fall run’ as most of the calves, yearlings and cull cows are offered for sale and the…
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October 20, 2021
Business Tools
Not Just a Pretty Face: Commercial heifer selection and the maternal journey from replacement to retail
Selecting commercial beef cattle replacement heifers for the herd is not based on beauty. A pretty face is just that – a pretty face. What we are looking for in the commercial herd is a working girl with serious historical data behind her. The “genes” she wears will come from a long line of females…
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June 8, 2021
Business Tools
Linking calf health and carcass quality
Every event in the life of a newborn calf contributes to their value and quality pre and post weaning. Ensuring that health and growth are constant is the challenge and the opportunity in the cow calf herd. The linkage between a health event and complications later in life are strong, particularly if the young calf has contracted scours…
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February 12, 2021
Issues & Insights
Bullseye: Targeting for beef
And today, it also lends credibility to the value of the calf for the cattle feeder and to the packer as a carcass. The end product is always beef and in the future advanced genetic improvements may also be predictable and palatable to the plate. Phenotype or the visibly physical characteristics of the bull were…
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Cattle Report
Updated: 25/04/2024
Steers
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Choice Steers
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Boner Cows
Over 500 lbs: 255.08
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Livestock Price Insurance Index
| Expiry | Fed | Feeder | Calf |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8-Jul-24 | 226 | -- | -- |
| 5-Aug-24 | 222 | 318 | -- |
| 2-Sep-24 | 220 | 324 | -- |
| 30-Sep-24 | 220 | 324 | 366 |
| 28-Oct-24 | 218 | 324 | 366 |
| 25-Nov-24 | 216 | 320 | 364 |
| 23-Dec-24 | 222 | 312 | 360 |
Last Updated on April 11, 2024
