Cattle Market Hopes For Good Year In 2016

Jan 05, 2016

Cattle producers saw some record high prices in 2015.

Dave Solverson is the President of the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association.

He says unfortunately we also saw some volatility in the market with prices dropping off later in the year.

He’s hoping that we could see some strength in the markets again in 2016.

“There’s really strong prices yet, if you look on a five year average were still ahead of prices that we normally get. There is going to be some losses on the feeding side because cattle bought in the first half of 2015. So there will be challenges for our feeding sector to recover some of those losses and to use risk management tools the best they can to keep the market going.”

The National Beef Strategy is high on the list of priorities for the Saskatchewan Cattlemen’s Association in 2016.

Executive Director Ryder Lee expects a lot of discussion on the issue and how it will be funded this month during the Saskatchewan Beef Conference Jan 20-21 in Saskatoon.

Source : Discoverestevan

Video: Cleaning Sheep Barns & Setting Up Chutes

Indoor sheep farming in winter at pre-lambing time requires that, at Ewetopia Farms, we need to clean out the barns and manure in order to keep the sheep pens clean, dry and fresh for the pregnant ewes to stay healthy while indoors in confinement. In today’s vlog, we put fresh bedding into all of the barns and we remove manure from the first groups of ewes due to lamb so that they are all ready for lambs being born in the next few days. Also, in preparation for lambing, we moved one of the sorting chutes to the Coveralls with the replacement ewe lambs. This allows us to do sorting and vaccines more easily with them while the barnyard is snow covered and hard to move sheep safely around in. Additionally, it frees up space for the second groups of pregnant ewes where the chute was initially.