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Soaring feed costs are offsetting the recent record-setting prices and cutting into livestock producers’ profitability.

CALGARY — Anxious Alberta ranchers praying for rain got their wish this week, but it may not be enough to stop the ongoing decline in Canadian cattle production.

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Challenges include California’s Proposition 12, foreign animal diseases, trade worries and chronic labour shortages.

Proposed traceability regulations are part of program to develop foot-and-mouth disease prevention, response initiatives.

Producers are hoping for good forecasts as they enter the second half of June, crops will need more moisture now to maintain yields.

Producers are happy with their growing conditions, and they hope to see them continue.

Crops on lighter soils and hill tops are suffering the most from the dry conditions, more clay textured soils have begun to crack.

Grasshoppers have returned to the region in droves and are beginning to cause crop damage.

Producers are now getting into the full swing of in crop spraying for weeds and insect pests.