date:Aug 26, 2014
er cent increase compared to year ago levels.
The low Canadian cattle inventories and particularly the decline in the breeding herd points to limited beef supplies in the North America for the foreseeable future. The survey did not provide an estimate for the calf crop in Canada for 2014 but we expect the calf crop to continue to decline, reflecting the lower breeding stock numbers.
The Canadian calf crop was 4.888 million head in 2009. By 2013 it had declined to 4.516 million head, a 7 per ce