By paNOW Staff

Beef cow numbers continue to drop

Feb 22, 2011 | 8:21 AM

The beef cow breeding herd in Canada continues to drop, but it isn’t dropping as quickly in Saskatchewan as in other parts of the country.

In the just released report from Statistics Canada, the number of beef cows in the country as of January 1 is pegged at 4.273 million, a decline of 2.7 per cent from a year earlier.

Since the peak back in 2005, the beef cow inventory has dropped over 19 per cent. The biggest decline over those years has been in British Columbia.

They’re down 37 per cent. The smallest decline since 2005 has been in Saskatchewan.

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