Cattle market timing drives Alberta ranchers rebuilding herds
Ranchers in southern Alberta weigh when to rebuild as drought regions push cattle into markets in northern Alberta and Saskatchewan. With cow calf units low and funds available from tax deferrals, buyers eye cheaper stock this year hoping for higher prices next year while considering feed costs and hay reserves. Some may travel north for better stock selection as complete herds are dispersed.
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Lyle Taylor
Medicine Hat Feeding Company
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Weather forecast shows variable clouds and showers most days
Variably cloudy morning turning to sun in the afternoon. High near 18. Tonight cloudy with clear breaks and low around 12. Friday and weekend showers probable with 40 percent odds and highs 27 to 23. Extended forecasts cover Swift Current Cypress Hills and Alberta regions with similar showers and mostly cloudy to partly sunny conditions.
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Missing tree planter Nicole Hoar mystery deepens in BC
Nicole Hoar, 25, a tree planter from Red Deer, vanished June 21 near Prince George while hitchhiking to Smithers. A driver who spoke with her says she declined a ride due to children in his car, a detail her parents call a small positive amid uncertainty.
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British Columbia
Nicole Hoar
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Former Alberta official charged with fraud
Raymond Gary Reshke a 52 year old former assistant deputy minister in the Alberta Infrastructure Department faces multiple fraud charges after two police investigations. Authorities say about 19000 in personal charges ran on a government credit card from 1999 to 2000 and contracts worth over 100000 with LDJ Project Management involved no work and paid Reshke about 45000 to a friend David Lamash who ran the company. Lamash also faces fraud charges.
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Raymond Gary Reshke
Infrastructure Department
Alberta Infrastructure
L.D.J. Project Management
Reshke
David Lamash
Lamash
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