Last year’s drought and this winter’s supply-chain snags create feed-shortage crisis for Western cattle producers

If the train that Leighton Kolk has been waiting on doesn’t arrive by noon Sunday, the Iron Springs, Alta.-area feedlot operator says he won’t be able to feed his cattle.

An unprecedented situation is unfolding in Canadian cattle country, where industry groups say a widespread feed shortage has escalated in recent days to a full-fledged emergency. However, in recent weeks the problem has been exacerbated by transportation challenges. According to the Alberta Cattle Feeders’ Association, an industry group that represents feedlot operators in the province, 75 per cent of its members report experiencing delays receiving expected rail shipments of corn since the start of the year.

On Friday, Canadian Pacific chief financial officer Nadeem Velani said his company moved more than 8,100 carloads of corn into Alberta in 2021, compared to just 600 carloads the year before – adding that the unprecedented demand required the creation of facilities and a supply chain that didn’t previously exist.

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This is why our totally 'competent' actor turned PM JustinTrudeau mandates vaccines for truckers, to help make our supply chains better? I don't get it, but I guess I'm not as smart as he is, nor as handsome. TruckersForFreedom TrudeauMustGo

Good, we need to raise/consume less meat.

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