Livestock

Most of the feeder steer prices reported in Saskatchewan this past week were up week-over-week and so were the feeder heifer prices. The latest Cattle Market Update from Canfax, for the week ending January 31, shows only the 600-700 and 800-900 pound steer weight categories as the only ones to have a week-over-week price decrease […]

The SaskAgToday.com Roundtable panel discusses the incoming U.S. tariffs on Canadian goods and how that may impact the ag sector. Canada is prepared with counter-tariffs of its own. Other ag news from the past week included Peavy Mart closing all of its Canadian locations, Ottawa and Saskatchewan announce funding for 30 livestock & forage research […]

Reported feeder steer and heifer prices in Saskatchewan for the week ending January 24th show steer prices were down but heifer prices were up. Only the 300-400 pound steers and the 300-400 and 400-500 pound heifer categories didn’t report a price for the week due to a limited amount of cattle sold. Some of the […]

The federal and provincial governments announced $6.9 million in joint funding to support 30 livestock and forage-related scientific research projects in Saskatchewan this year. Combined with funding from industry partners, the total amount is $7.2 million. The Saskatchewan Cattlemen’s Association, Saskatchewan Forage Seed Development Commission, SaskPork, and the Western Dairy Research Coalition – consisting of […]

The Manitoba government is responding to requests from Manitoba’s agricultural sector and opening two new Manitoba Agricultural Services Corporation (MASC) Service Centres in western Manitoba to better meet the needs of Manitoba farmers, Agriculture Minister Ron Kostyshyn announced here today. “Where the previous government ended services, we’re bringing them back,” said Kostyshyn. “We heard from […]

A cross-Canada research project will attempt to reduce methane production by finding rumen efficiencies. Dr. Leluo Guan from the University of British Columbia was recent awarded $7.9 million from the National Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada. She is also the Canada Research Chair in Animal Function Genomics and Microbiome. Other researchers working with Guan […]

There have been some notable trends in fall and winter feed test results to date. Environmental factors during the growing season such as temperature, available moisture, and soil nutrients all contribute to forage quality. When conditions are warm and water is available, plants grow quickly, accumulating fibre and advancing in stage of maturing. If water […]

The United States won a ruling on Friday in a trade dispute with Mexico, which had sought to ban imports of genetically modified corn for human consumption. The Government of Mexico does not agree with the ruling made by the three-judge trade dispute panel, but says Mexico will respect the decision. The panel said Mexico’s […]

The Saskatchewan Cattlemen’s Association is keeping a close eye and ear to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency’s investigation into a positive case of Bovine Tuberculosis found in a cow that originated from a herd in Saskatchewan. The CFIA said the six-year-old cow was slaughtered at a federally-regulated abattoir in Alberta and the CFIA Ottawa Laboratory […]

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency detected a positive case of Bovine Tuberculosis in a cow originating from a herd in Saskatchewan. On November 29th, the CFIA Ottawa Laboratory Fallowfield confirmed the positive case of Bovine TB from tissue collected from a six-year-old cow that was slaughtered at a federally-regulated abattoir in Alberta. The Agency says […]