Source: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
The livestock industry strives to continuously improve its capacity to respond to increasing demands by consumers and markets to demonstrate the highest quality of animal care.
Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food, Lawrence MacAulay today announced an...
Source: Canadian Cattlemen Association
For the past year, all breeding cattle entering Canada from the U.S. have been required to be identified with the National Animal Identification System (NAIS) compliant 840 radio frequency ear tags. Beginning April 1, 2019 all...
Source: Alberta Agriculture and Forestry
A number of factors have been affecting recent fed steer and hay markets. Jason Wood, provincial livestock market analyst with Alberta Agriculture and Forestry, has an update.
Wood says that the Canfax reported price for Alberta...
A price channel consists of two parallel trend-lines providing support (bottom) and resistance (top) lines that contain price fluctuations. Channels may be bullish (slanting upwards), bearish (slanting downwards), or neutral (horizontal).
To “Read” Walt’s charts, keep the following in mind:
Support...
Source: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Canada's agriculture and agri-food system contributes over $114 billion to our gross domestic product, and provides safe, nutritious and sustainable food for the world, while creating well-paying jobs for our middle class. The sector is...
Source: Canadian Food Inspection Agency
Topic: Animal identification
The objective of the TRACE Newsletter is to provide an overview of progress on proposed amendments to Part XV of the federal Health of Animals Regulations (hereafter referred to the “Regulations”) that pertains...
Source: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
The bioeconomy sector holds tremendous potential for Canada, helping to reduce our carbon footprint while creating opportunities to grow our economy.
Today, Lawrence MacAulay, Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food, Parliamentary Secretary Jean-Claude Poissant and Member of...
Source: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
The Canadian and Manitoba governments are investing $350,000 over five years in the Manitoba Beef Producers (MBP) to deliver the Verified Beef Production Plus (VBP+) Program, federal Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food Lawrence MacAulay, and...
Source: Alberta Agriculture and Forestry
With much of the province in a deep freeze, it’s important to adjust feeding programs for livestock. Barry Yaremcio, beef forage specialist at the Ag-Info Centre, explains.
Interview with Barry Yaremcio (3:46 minutes) (1.72 Mb)
For more...
To “Read” Walt’s charts, keep the following in mind:
Support – this term refers to a trend line or price area under the market which is expected to hold the market from potential decline.
Resistance- a price area or trend line...
