The broken cattle price cycle AND agricultural labour shortage

There is a growing disparity along the beef supply chain . . . with consumers paying more at the front end and cow/calf producers getting less money on the back end.Throw in high feed costs and the threat of a strike at Cargill's High River Alberta Beef Processing Plant . . . and there is a lot of dis-satisfaction on the farm. Livestock producer and chair of the Alberta Beef Producers Melanie Wowk will talk about some of those concerns and why she thinks the cattle price cycle is broken. The labor shortage facing agriculture is limiting the sector's growth potential and causing some operations to question whether they can continue to operate. The labor crunch faced by Canadian agriculture is examined as part of an article posted to the Manitoba Pork Council website and distributed through Manitoba newspapers.Manitoba Pork General manager Cam Dahl will share his thoughts on the problem and discuss a recent Canadian Agricultural Resources Council survey last year that showed 40 percent of agricultural business had not met their staffing requirements and the possibility of over 135,000 open positions by the end of the decade.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.