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__ - ' O " 62(161371'“ .swoen'oeussoeaaf M uuH J y " - P it _ 'tIirMIri, U 7 " ,, I "N ff , O _ A l I - ,,_ V Ilrr “his: q '. M,-rsir.'i' " A: u " Ril ll Igitt,li I for beef cattle ' fdhit , , "iRiit , byAli!tfyB!lyll, l, __ CFr" W _ -eee -_._r prrcean recent years feedlot contracted those cattle." " IEil . vrT, M - r " h" W, q" , li News-Northumberland County-It’s operators, who fatten cattle The lower return puts the ' - - " , Lift ' P“ ‘ , -p, ["8 " "never been better" in the beef industry for market, have chosen to feedlot operators at "a real MP, . a irhN"T, _ . [y I . f f E " - than right now, with prices being paidto sign deals with packers "for disadvantage" when it comes t ‘ se- a. Ei _ hr, "' w " producers fortheir cattle "at an all-time whatlooked to be pretty good time to replace the animals _ 1 A. - _ high," says the president of the Nor- money” but those contracted sold, Demure said. "Some of (lose m 300 people mm out int-the annuai ‘ - ‘ w . . thumberland CattlemeR's Association. prices have been overtaken those guys could see some 1ueflrar.h+hgrsatmltetermryrarmiatrir. : as. I " " , - ‘ ' e “vi "al , , The prices "started to really climb" by yhat's being paid out in tough times this fall." mitheTrmashitr."tttrasim extellentniglrt. and ii ' 'firiSl , Isle G at P. " last fall, but now every week they're the live market, Demure said. But in a supply-and- " exturmuiamtoimeirarapistuise _ P, 4 l TX p, - “a little higher than the week before," Many are receiving $300 demand market, nothing is sput’iialongaide a,” (resilsatd Dan Beore, l i ' auctioneer Dave Demure said. "We to $400 less for a finished ever certain for very long, president of itorthumbedimd mm! Ass , . . . ‘ . _ haven't found our plateau yet." . steer “than what they could Denim: added. "lt's hard to tiathmsaatu,ha u 1'tfttttgiel'2','g,tfg2gat halting”! Kortham The price paid for dressed weight be getting if they hadn't say what's going to happen." r. . u up , (of an animal partially butchered) _ recently rose to between $2.65 and - _ $2.70 a pound, he said, which is “a long _ ' . ' ways above" the $2.12 beef producers l ' received before the mad cow scare "1 , caused prices to plummet a decade ago. I 7" , p , TheCanadianbeef industrrwent into “i IIS, I _ _ ' aterrible slump fulluwingthe discovery I . . t - "., Jr of bovine spongiform encephalopathy I“ Gt ' Mtl t i.” V _ (ESE) in a single cow in Alberta in 'dt, . IM, ' g I ll, hi Le, ' 2003, which led other countries to place ti I 7 f temporary import bans on Canadian ‘ , [ti 9 beef. 1 may! , Lt'P, _ T The fallout led to an exodus of a - I e, ’ rsA domestic beef producers arreveuues _ t plunged. . . - ' Today, worldwide demand for beef is a; ' Mia' on the rise but "there's such a shortage " ' of the product," that it's driven up al . " _ . prices, Demure said. "There's beena lot E91. P, a” W " , F ofguys who have quit the industry and _ - ' a . i nobody has filled that void." _ Mtml, = Cl I _ Canada has boosted beef sales to ,-- "ttrss" 'ir' q . other countries through various trade at” It/a, B [ deals, “and they‘re telling us that Bt . “is; Ke1'PPrr9 e r. t.hey're moving, more Tte all the thsrel1eortspresidott0orthumberiandtattterrtertthsstrriatitm,othe l tune overseas, /y said. A 93453,“! right,and Dan Darlingwere keptbnsyheapirtgpettple'splateswithmeat ( dollar ... helps with F113 export trade. at the association's annual Beef Day July 3, This year's event, which drew ' Buy10tfvtrtoye In the 1sefind.uijtry doseto3muttrpletwashirstedbrCariWikeandFathrhnstonatthiswike i IS getting the full benefit ofthe uptick m CenturyFarm in traroheTawnshipluly 3. nmtarlMimmpbell i I I , ti " ', ', " I T "e, an,“ -._-- . - gl Generator bnn s peace of mind , IT "w', !rd rr 'if, 1u)?rtfsii'i' a: - U, l twdrerw We r mm DH. 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