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: Evolution of Beef Cattle Farming

The Clear Conversations podcast took to the road for a special episode recorded in Nashville during CattleCon, bringing listeners straight into the heart of the cattle industry. Host Tracy Sellers welcomed rancher Steve Wooten of Beatty Canyon Ranch in Colorado for a wide-ranging discussion that blended family history and sustainability, particularly as it relates to the future of beef production.

Sustainability emerged as a central theme of the conversation, a word that Wooten acknowledges can mean very different things depending on who you ask. For him, sustainability starts with the soil. Healthy soil produces healthy grass, which supports efficient cattle capable of producing year after year with minimal external inputs. It’s an approach that equally considers vegetation, animal efficiency, and long-term profitability.

That philosophy aligned naturally with Wooten’s involvement in the U.S. Roundtable for Sustainable Beef, where he served as a representative for the Colorado Cattlemen’s Association. The roundtable brings together the entire beef supply chain—from producers to retailers—along with universities, NGOs, and allied industries. Its goal is not regulation, Wooten emphasized, but collaboration, shared learning, and continuous improvement.