By Nigel Maxwell

Traceability and transport among juicy topics this week at national beef conference

Aug 13, 2018 | 8:00 AM

Beef industry leaders from across the country have assembled in London, Ont. this week for the third annual Canadian Beef Industry Conference.

Among the many topics to be covered at the four-day conference are advances in animal breeding, pasture management, and ways to help drive beef demand. Ryder Lee, Chief Executive Officer of the Saskatchewan Cattlemen’s Association, will be at the conference and told farmnewsNOW he looks forward to talking with his provincial counterparts.

“Some of it is hearing what they are working on and what we can work on nationally but also stealing each other’s ideas and bringing them home,” he said.

Lee said there will be a lot to take in over the course of the four days, but added he expects common interest around a couple of federal topics.

“You know traceability is a concern as new regulations are in the offing, same with new regulations around transport,” he said.

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One of the speakers at the conference this week will be Kevin Good, a senior analyst with CanFax. Good has been scheduled to talk about the overall outlook for the North American and Global Cattle Beef Industries. Lee said many producers in Saskatchewan face some tough decisions this year, after a hard year last year and then a long, hard winter.

“You know not sitting on a bunch of feed reserves and having a year here not growing a lot feed either so there are some tough decisions facing a lot of peolpe around what size of herd they should have and what steps they should take to match their livestock and their feed resources ,” Lee said.

The Canadian Beef Industry Conference.conference runs Aug. 13 to Aug. 16.

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