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US Trade- Steers
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US Trade - Heifers
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Taylor Ranches receives 2024 Environmental Stewardship Award
Alberta Beef Producers (ABP) is proud to announce the Taylor family as the recipients of the 2024 Environmental Stewardship Award.
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February 13, 2021
Innovation & Technology
What We’re Reading | Digital technology coming to Canadian agriculture in waves
Moose Jaw Today by Ron Walter New technology changed agriculture when global positioning service (GPS) first became available about 20 years ago. GPS allows farmers to map fields for fertilizer and chemical needs and reduce or increase these inputs as necessary. The year 2021 may become known as the year agriculture once again adopted new…
February 10, 2021
Innovation & Technology
What We’re Reading | Alberta farmer turns ag plastic into fence posts
The Western Producer by Mary MacArthur It took farmer, inventor and recycler Danny Farkash about 2 1/2 years to figure out how to build a machine that turns used agricultural plastic into fence posts. Using old oilfield pipe, an anhydrous ammonia tank, a straw chopper, parts of a swather and other bits and pieces, Farkash…
February 7, 2021
Business Tools
What We’re Reading | Alberta Farm Builds Labour Diversity into its Core
Country Guide by Lorraine Stevenson The sun is barely up but VRP Farms Ltd., a half hour north of Lethbridge, is already humming. Pen riders saddle their horses and barn labourers are shipping, sorting and processing. Feed drivers put their trucks in gear, operators of high hoes and manure trucks shuttle about the site, and…
January 24, 2021
Innovation & Technology
What We’re Reading | Smart Farming, or the Future of Agriculture
We are a Ukraine-based company which means that our parents and grandparents lived in the era of infamous Soviet collective farms, where tractors were considered to be an ultimate technology. For them, a smart farm will sound like a fairy tale. So let it be, a fairy tale of a smart farm. First of all,…
January 21, 2021
Issues & Insights
What We’re Reading | US Agricultural Water use Declining for Most Crops and Livestock Production
Climate change and a growing world population require efficient use of natural resources. Water is a crucial component in food production, and water management strategies are needed to support worldwide changes in food consumption and dietary patterns. Agricultural production and food manufacturing account for a third of water usage in the U.S. Water use fluctuates with weather…
December 23, 2020
Issues & Insights
What We’re Reading | Proposed Clean Fuel Standard “Very Positive,” says Canola Council
The federal government’s Clean Fuel Standard (CFS) could create a new market equal in size to that of Japan’s for Canadian canola, according to the Canola Council of Canada. The draft regulations supporting the new fuel standard, which would require fuel companies reduce the lifecycle carbon intensity of their fuels, were published in Canada Gazette on December 18….
December 5, 2020
Weather
What We’re Reading | 20 Signs of a Hard Winter Ahead
Before there were weather apps for your smartphone, Doppler radar, or the National Weather Service, our ancestors looked to the signs from nature to prepare for what was to come. A wonderful friend of Farmers’ Almanac’s Editor, Ray Geiger’s, Cleveland weather guru Dick Goddard put together a laundry list of 20 signs of nature that can predict a harsh…
November 5, 2020
Innovation & Technology
What We’re Reading | Picking Robots Address Agriculture’s Labor Shortage Challenge
Today’s farmers are well versed in the art of doing more with less. From stricter water use regulations to an expanding list of banned crop protection chemistries, growers have always found innovative ways to work smarter. Although processes and inputs can be stretch to the limit to maximize profits, human labor cannot—and it is becoming…
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Taylor Ranches receives 2024 Environmental Stewardship Award
Alberta Beef Producers (ABP) is proud to announce the Taylor family as the recipients of the 2024 Environmental Stewardship Award.
Meet the Taylors
Cattle Report
Updated: 19/09/2024
Steers
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Heifers
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Choice Steers
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Rail: 288.00 (IA) *few
Choice Heifers
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Boner Cows
Over 500 lbs: 255.68
Canadian Dollar
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Livestock Price Insurance Index
| Expiry | Fed | Feeder | Calf |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16-Dec-24 | 224 | 302 | -- |
| 10-Feb-25 | 226 | 306 | -- |
| 10-Mar-25 | 222 | 302 | -- |
| 7-Apr-25 | 228 | 304 | -- |
| 5-May-25 | 232 | 308 | -- |
| 2-June-25 | 238 | 312 | -- |
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Last Updated on September 20, 2024
