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Canadian Cattle Grading - Higher Canadian slaughter levels and higher carcass weights have led to a seven percent increase in beef production this year. Canadian fed slaughter is up 5.7% from last year, and given the higher grading cattle year to date, there has been a further increase to the amount of AAA and Prime beef produced in Canada. Through to the end of July, 63.94% of all A graded cattle were AAA or Prime, up slightly from last year's percentage of 63.35% ...
Alberta and Saskatchewan Cattle on Feed - Canfax released its August 1st cattle on feed report today, marking the fifteenth consecutive month that on feed inventories have been above year ago. August 1st cattle on feed inventories totaled 797,955 head, 6% larger than last year and 16% larger than the five-year average. Furthermore, this is the fifth largest August 1st on feed inventory since reporting began ...