Supporting sustainable beef sector growth
Alberta’s government and the beef sector are partnering to ensure Canada’s beef industry continues to grow sustainably and remains competitive.
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Alberta is a key beef supplier to local and international markets and improving our competitiveness is critical to supporting the Alberta Beef and Canada Beef brands. Alberta’s government is partnering with the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association, Alberta Beef Producers and Alberta Cattle Feeders’ Association to undertake a competitiveness study that will provide important insights and data for this essential industry.
Brandon Sun By: Tyler Clarke Save to Read Later
The weekend rains meant a lot to area farmers, but they’ll need much more than that to make it through the year.
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Keystone Agricultural Producers president Bill Campbell uses the 12-inch ruler metric.
Tyler Fulton It’d be ideal if we had 12 inches of rain throughout the growing season for the crop, and right now we have one inch, he said, adding that while the weekend rains were encouraging, we’re not near the finish line yet.
On the plus side, he said the rains should be enough to get most crops germinated throughout Westman, with those crops sowed now having enough moisture to get started.
If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. That seems to be what Epicurious was thinking when it announced this week it was cutting beef out of its digital diet. The popular food and recipe website’s pronouncement was greeted with the entirely predictable howls of outrage from beef producers and freedom-loving conservative culture warriors across North America. After all, Epicurious actually made the move more than a year ago and hadn’t published a new recipe featuring beef since early 2020. But given that it appeared to go mostly unnoticed, they reiterated the choice earlier this week.
“Our shift is solely about sustainability, about not giving airtime to one of the world’s worst climate offenders,” former digital director David Tamarkin and senior editor Maggie Hoffman wrote. “We think of this decision as not anti-beef but rather pro-planet.”
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Tyler Fulton, a cattle producer from Birtle and president of Manitoba Beef Producers.
All signs are pointing to a year of drought, pushing some farmers to take mitigative actions to lessen its impact. Because it’s so dry right now, you don’t want it to come down in torrents over a couple hours because that doesn’t have an ability to soak in it’ll flow away, Pipestone-area cattle farmer Melissa Atchison said.
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Manitoba Beef Producers vice-president Melissa Atchison is seen with her cattle.
Consistent rain spread over the course of a couple days would be a great start, she added.