Canada Gold Beef

[Willowcreek]

And Kato- what you and many others forget is that the hog farmers need something that the beef raisers don't to develop their product- expensive grains...From what I understand Canada has oodles of grass available (especially if more and more are quitting ranching as you've said)- and it seems to me that more folks would be taking advantage of the high grain prices and running yearlings on grass til fat- rather than the labor/cost intensive calving in the great white north...Selling a labeled All Natural grassfed product....

[kato]

Actually that is cutting back too, at least around here. A friend of ours who usually puts a couple of thousand grassers out is considering cutting that in half this year. That's how much faith he has in the markets.

We put an ad in the paper looking for cow calf pasture, and got it within six hours of the paper coming out. Just as we expected, there were cow herds sold off that left space for ours. We're not talking about a few cows either, we pasture out a hundred pairs. One guy who called has sixteen quarters of pasture and no cattle! He was too far away for us though.

It's looking like anyone looking for pasture in Manitoba this year can pick and choose where they want to go. It's gotten to the point where even the PFRA is cutting back their land base, when they used to have a waiting list to get in.