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High prices and cattle producers calling it quits; ranchers reflect on tough year
MEDICINE HAT, AB – Rancher Darby Delorme prepares his cows for the annual Beef Pen Show at the Medicine Hat Exhibition and Stampede grounds
This year has been a tough one for the rancher from Robsart, Saskatchewan, and others in the industry. Many were met with crippling drought and rising feed prices.
It’s become so bad that some cattle producers like Delorme have been questioning just how long they can keep going.
” This is our livelihood and my family has been in Canada, my kids are 16 generations in Canada, and for the most part, we have always been in agriculture whether farming or ranching, and I’ve had lots of neighbors that have called it quits,” he said.