Welcome to this Friday edition of RealAg Radio, with guest host Lyndsey Smith. Today’s show features a Beef Market Update with Anne Wasko of Gateway Livestock Exchange. There will also be an issues panel featuring Kelvin Heppner and Jeff Nielsen. They discuss: Election predictions; The Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP); and How… Read More
This week was a bit of a wild ride in the markets following the JBS fire that occured in Granville Island, Nebraska. The plant — that has the capacity to process 6,000 head of cattle a day — is now back up and running, but it has many asking “how does this impact the cattle… Read More
Welcome to this Friday edition of RealAg Radio. On today’s show you’ll hear a Beef Market Update with Anne Wasko of Gateway Livestock Exchange. You’ll also hear an issues panel, with guest host Lyndsey Smith, Kelvin Heppner, and dairy farmer and co-founder of utensil.ca, Andrew Campbell. They’ll be talking about: Food innovation “news” involving crackers… Read More
As Anne Wasko, of the Gateway Livestock Exchange puts it, here in Canada “cattle slaughter has been outstanding.” Following some really good weeks, total Canadian harvests hit 72,400 this week, as Wasko explains in this week’s Beef Market Update. “Breaking that down into young cattle and cows, the steer and heifer kill is basically 63,000…. Read More
Welcome to this Friday edition of RealAg Radio. Today’s show features a Beef Market Update with Anne Wasko of the Gateway Livestock Exchange. There’s also an issues panel, featuring Lyndsey Smith and Kelvin Heppner. They’ll be talking about: The federal election campaign, Water woes; What’s happening in Afghanistan; and, The price of groceries. Thoughts on… Read More
Starting this week’s episode of the Beef Market Update with Anne Wasko of the Gateway Livestock Exchange, is some positivity when it comes to trading fat cattle in both the U.S. and Western Canada. In the southern U.S., the fats are trading around the $122 mark, with the northern states around the $126-$128 mark, says… Read More
It’s been the story for weeks, but unfortunately, still a big one — there are large parts of the country that are facing drought, and it is severely impacting the beef industry. Seeing as this is the Beef Market Update, it wouldn’t be natural if we didn’t talk the price side of all of this… Read More
Welcome to this Friday edition of RealAg Radio. Thanks for being here. On this episode, hear an encore presentation of Joy Agnew’s discussion about AgSmart happening next week at Olds College (there was a mix up at the studio, so we decided to include it in today’s show again). Then, it’s on to the weekly… Read More
There’s a lot of ground to cover in this week’s Beef Market Update, including price activity, cut-out value, demand, cash prices, and more. Anne Wasko of Gateway Livestock Exchange joins host Shaun Haney to break down all these topics. In the U.S., prices are still doing a see-saw action and the market’s held on remarkably… Read More
Thanks for tuning into today’s episode of RealAg Radio. Our guest host, Lyndsey Smith, has a great lineup for you! You’ll hear: A Beef Market Update with Anne Wasko of the Gateway Livestock Exchange. A RealAg Issues Panel featuring Kelvin Heppner of RealAgriculture and Alberta farmer Jeff Nielsen. The panel discusses: Bill C-208, even though… Read More
If you’ve been following the cattle markets, you’ll know that this week the Alberta fed cattle market lost some ground. This kind of behaviour is not exceptionally strange for a July cattle market, says Anne Wasko of the Gateway Livestock Exchange in the latest episode of the Beef Market Update. However, the market lost another… Read More
Welcome to this Friday edition of RealAg Radio! On today’s show we’ve got a Beef Market Update with Anne Wasko of the Gateway Livestock Exchange. We’ve also got a RealAg issues panel featuring our own Lyndsey Smith and Kelvin Heppner, joined by Stuart Person, senior vice president of agriculture at MNP. They’ll be discussing: Business… Read More
It seems to be par for the course that the cattle markets are doing a little bit of everything these days. Anne Wasko of the Gateway Livestock Exchange says from a price perspective, the U.S. market is up and the Alberta market is down. “In the U.S., most of the trade is in the north,… Read More
On previous episodes of the Beef Market Update, you’ve heard Anne Wasko of the Gateway Livestock Exchange talk about the cattle hangover that is going on in the fed cattle market. Well, we’ve got some good news: we are on our way out. Wasko says although the U.S. is getting on its feet too, the… Read More
Thanks for tuning into RealAg Radio! On today’s show, you’ll hear: Anne Wasko of the Gateway Livestock Exchange, with a Beef Market Update; A RealAg Issues Panel featuring Kelvin Heppner of RealAgriculture, and Andrew Campbell, dairy farmer and co-founder of utensil.com. The duo discusses: The dairy dispute with the U.S. and other trade irritants; The… Read More