Lyndsey Smith gets one last chance to be the host with the most and kicks off the show with a little encouragement to bring some joy in to your everyday. Ten, on today’s show you’ll hear: Top ag news with Jessika Guse Cassandra Tkachuk, with the Manitoba Pulse and Soybean Growers, talks soybean cyst nematode… Read More
Tag: Anne Wasko
The Canadian Roundtable for Sustainable Beef (CRSB) Council took the opportunity recently to meet face-to-face, hear from a guest speaker, and review achievements of the council to date. According to Anne Wasko, chair of CRSB, some of the latest highlights include: Harvey’s Canada sourcing certified sustainable beef; Atlantic Beef Products being audited and certified to… Read More
First off, a big thank you to Kara Oosterhuis, for another amazing summer with RealAgriculture, we wish you the best of luck heading back to post-secondary! It’s Labour Day long weekend, and you can look forward to a Monday show dedicated to human resource and labour discussion. But first, in today’s show: Top ag news… Read More
This week’s Beef Market Update starts with one central question: What is going on with this cash market? Anne Wasko, of the Gateway Livestock Exchange, joins RealAg Radio host Shaun Haney to help answer this question, because, as Haney notes, many are disappointed with where the market is currently sitting. Wasko says that the impact… Read More
It’s been a busy week in the beef markets, impacted largely by growing North American beef and pork supplies, spotty feed availability, and the August 9th fire at Tyson’s beef processing plant in Kansas. Regular RealAgriculture guest Anne Wasko of the Gateway Livestock Exchange spent some of her week in Calgary, at the Canadian Beef… Read More
What a week it’s been! Markets were wild, two conferences covered, and to top it all off, there was a lot of feedback from YOU the listener. On today’s show we’ll have: The top ag news with RealAgriculture news lead, Jessika Guse; Anne Wasko of the Gateway Livestock Exchange for this week’s Beef Market Update;… Read More
The Canadian Roundtable for Sustainable Beef (CRSB) has a new partner at the table. Harvey’s Restaurants has committed to sourcing a portion of their beef for their original burger in conjunction with CRSB’s sustainability standards. “We are thrilled to partner with Harvey’s and support their sustainable sourcing efforts,”says Anne Wasko, chair of the CRSB and… Read More
The calendar has flipped into August and cattle producers are looking forward to the fall yearling and feeder run. During the past week, live cattle struggled to gain momentum but ended up fairing better than lean hogs in the face of heavy selling of pork futures. There is a lot of pressure on hogs due… Read More
We’re wrapping up a busy week with a great show, featuring the top ag news with RealAgriculture’s Jessika Guse (freshly back from the unveiling of Kubota’s M8); the Beef Market Update with Anne Wasko of Gateway Livestock Exchange; and some thoughts from host Shaun Haney, who covers the colour of farm machinery (check some feedback… Read More
Barbecues may be firing up for the summer and worldwide protein demand may be holding steady, but the price of fed cattle isn’t quite so hot. “Not exactly exciting news – prices are lower – but…I would also point to the fact that we’ve got considerably more beef being produced this year in both countries,”… Read More
Behind the scenes, to front and centre, women have always played a critical role in farming and in the agriculture industry. In this episode of Mind Your Farm Business, host Shaun Haney speaks with three women from unique backgrounds and stages of their careers, to talk about their perspective on the challenges and opportunities that… Read More
Beef markets this week felt the pressure of the Chinese request to suspend beef and pork exports from Canada. “It was a growing market that certainly our sellers of beef were focusing on,” says Anne Wasko, of the Gateway Livestock Exchange. “So when you have that close overnight, markets obviously this week have been in… Read More
At the 106th Saskatchewan Stock Growers Association annual general meeting, Gateway Livestock Exchange’s Anne Wasko presented on the current situation in the beef markets. The theme of the two-day convention was Strategies for Success, and in this episode of the RealAgriculture Beef Market Update, Wasko goes over just that. She says the biggest topic she’s… Read More
With historically slow corn planting in the U.S. and Ontario due to adverse wet weather conditions, the consequences are building. As the doubts on how much of the desired corn will get planted, feedyards are having staring higher feed costs in the eye. The latest USDA planting progress report will come out today (Monday), but… Read More
On Friday’s RealAg Radio show, host Shaun Haney has the following guests: RealAgriculture’s Jessika Guse with the top ag news stories of the day; Anne Wasko from the Gateway Livestock Exchange is in for the Beef Market Update; and, RealAgriculture issues panel with Jeff English of ThinkShift and Andrew Campbell of FreshAir Media. Miss an… Read More