If you have an upcoming beef show and would like the event information listed in a future NBCP e-news, please email coordinator@agricommodity.ca with details.

2025 NBCP Producer Registration

A friendly reminder that your annual producer registration must be kept up to date to be considered compliant and in good standing with NBCP. You are considered in good standing if you complete and send the form back each year. 

If you are already on our mailing list, you will receive a printed copy of the NBCP registration form with your newsletter. Digital downloads of the producer and dealer registration forms are also available by clicking the button below:

Weekly Price Report

The NBCP website has a Weekly Market Price Report based on cattle sale pricing from the previous week within the Eastern Region, including such sales as the Atlantic Stockyards Ltd., Carvell's Livestock Auction Barn, Quebec (St. Isidore) and Ontario. The current ABP price is also listed. All prices listed are live, except ABP and QC Fed Steers (Carcass). All pricing (other than bob calves) is based on $/lb.

The Weekly Price Report is updated every Tuesday morning and can be found here.

Environmental Farm Management Planning

To foster climate change adaptation and mitigation actions and agri-environmental risk by increasing knowledge, information and technology transfer through the use of Environmental Farm Plans and associated actions. 

Program Guidelines and Application form can be found here.

Applicants should discuss applications with Department of Agriculture, Aquaculture and Fisheries staff (Business Growth Officer, Development Officer or Specialist) before applying. Click here for a list of departmental contacts.

*NBCP offer no guarantee if this funding has been exhausted prior to highlighting this program.

Message to Stakeholders Regarding Wildfires in NB

Please see message below from Deputy Minister Kathy Brewer-Dalton.

Dear Agriculture Stakeholders, 

We wanted to provide you with an important update regarding the wildfire situation as well as agricultural activities on Crown land. As of midnight one (12:01am) tonight, all agricultural activities will be permitted to resume on Crown land without the need for a work permit. This includes harvesting, maintenance, and pest management activities. Nonetheless, the risk of fire in the province remains high and we are asking everyone to use all necessary precautions. This includes having fire suppression equipment on site while performing work. It is also important to note that the current province-wide burn ban will remain in effect. 

As a reminder, every household that could potentially be affected should have an emergency kit stocked with everything their family would need for at least 72 hours in the event of an evacuation. Please ensure you have personal and livestock evacuation plans in place and follow advisories to maintain your preparedness and safety. You may wish to consider updating your transportation and offsite livestock housing contacts regardless of your proximity to existing fires. A general guide to emergency preparedness can be found here.

If you have any questions, concerns, or require support, please do not hesitate to reach out to your regular contacts at the Department. We are here to provide guidance, information, and assistance as we navigate these challenging conditions together.

Thank you for your continued cooperation, vigilance, and commitment.

Department of Agriculture, Aquaculture and Fisheries

Upcoming Business Risk Management (BRM) Program Deadlines

AgriStability: Final deadline to file your AgriStability form for the 2024 program year is September 30, 2025.

AgriInvest: Initial deadline to submit your 2025 form without penalty is September 30, 2025.

If dry weather is straining your farm's cash flow, remember: AgriInvest participants can withdraw funds from their account at any time to help cover expenses.

Need help? Please reach out to your local Business Risk Management Advisor.

New NBSCIA Factsheet - Making Harvest Decisions in Drought-Stressed Crops

Click on the image below to download the full 2-page factsheet (PDF).

BSE Surveillance Program: Early Participation and Next Steps

It’s been four months since we updated the National Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) Surveillance Program to align with new international standards. Early results are promising: we’ve already received 152 samples and have paid $102,000 to support clinical history recording and sampling – all from private veterinarians in Alberta.

To keep the momentum going, we’re encouraging participation from across the country.

Whether you’re a bovine vet, cattle producer, pathologist, abattoir staff or deadstock collector, the new tools make it easier to contribute:

• Is the animal eligible? Take 2 minutes to check using our simple online questionnaire
• Need a refresher on sampling and packaging? Clear, practical guidance is available
• Want to claim for services provided? Use our online invoice form – submitting takes less than 2 minutes and payment rates have been updated

Your participation matters: Market access depends on our ability to prove we’re actively looking for eligible cattle.

Visit the National BSE Surveillance Program webpage at the button below to learn more and get started.

Thanks for supporting disease surveillance in Canada.

This manual aims to guide Atlantic Canadian producers on beneficial management practices for pasture management to improve production, as well as environmental and economic sustainability. The updated version of the Pasture Manual was funded by the Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s (AAFC) On-Farm Climate Action Fund (OFCAF) program. 

Questions about the Manual? Contact glewis@perennia.ca for assistance.

Quick Tips for Beef Producers During Drought and Feed Shortages

Monitor your cow and condition. If your cows look like they are going to be thin in the fall or if your pastures are not regrowing:

• Creep feed – commercial creep feeds are available or a creep feed can be balanced for you.
• Wean your calves early – this reduces the nutritional strain on your cows and allows them to use all their dietary intake for maintenance and their own growth.
• Supplement pasture feed – either start feeding a green chop daily or feed a grain-based supplement. Neither of these are cheap in this particular situation, but the alternative is higher feed costs in the winter.

Remove your bull from the pasture after 60 days past calving. This simple practice, coupled with pregnancy testing this fall, will allow you to make easy culling decisions.

• Any cows not bred are shipped. The drawback to this (particularly in years of drought) applies to late calving herds, or cows calving later than the middle of June.
• With later calving cows, the spring flush of grass is over and rebreeding time could increase if adequate nutrition is not available.

Test feed early.

• By knowing the nutrient levels in your feeds, you can plan your feeding program well in advance.
• Feed your poorest quality feed first (providing your cows are in adequate condition coming off pasture) and save your best feed for just before calving and after calving.
• You may also want to consider some processing of your poorer quality forage. Grinding increases the intake of poorer quality feeds.

Consider selling your calves.

• If you have been overwintering your calves in the past, consider selling them this fall to lessen your reliance on stored winter feeds.
• Know the local price for calves and be aggressive in identifying buyers.
• Choose your replacement heifers early and try to choose the oldest (they should be the biggest); decide if you will sell the remaining heifers as feeders.
• Consider having your calves custom fed at a local feedlot.

Investigate alternative feeds.

• Depending upon your location, cheap, nutritious feed may be available as a by-product. These can include straw, apple pomace, cull potatoes, cull carrots, vegetable processing waste, bakery waste, brewers grains, etc.
• These feeds can compensate for shortages of forage and may provide a cheaper alternative to grain supplementation. If you decide to feed any of these products, contact a nutritionist for information regarding any special feeding considerations.

Click on the image below to download the full PDF.

As Canada navigates economic shifts and trade-related disruptions, your perspective is vital.

Through this brief 1-minute survey, we are collecting real-time insights on staffing conditions, hiring expectations, recruitment barriers, and workforce needs—key industry intelligence we will share with policymakers to support targeted workforce investments and responsive policy measures.

CAHRC has partnered with thirteen national sectoral and workforce development organizations, representing two-thirds of Canada’s private sector workforce to develop the Workforce Pulse. Together, we are working to deliver real-time industry insights that will inform strategic planning, drive policy, and shape proactive solutions for workforce development.

Why participate:



• Help guide targeted workforce investments and responsive policy actions
• Access timely, sector-specific insights to support strategic planning and decision-making
• Identify key issues for further research  

Living Lab New Brunswick Digs into Soil Health

Living Lab New Brunswick (LLNB) is digging in to demonstrate the impact of healthy soils.

Initiated in 2022, the five-year Living Lab New Brunswick project consists of 25 sites around the province. It’s part of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s (AAFC) Agricultural Climate Solutions – Living Labs (ACS-LL), a $185-million program launched in 2021. 

The New Brunswick farm sites test beneficial management practices (BMPs) being developed in the living lab to sequester carbon and reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions on farms in the following focus areas: 

• enhanced pasture management 
• enhanced forage management 
• advanced nutrient management 
• advanced cropping systems 
• enhanced landscape functionality 

Each focus area is practiced on five farms with one farm field chosen as the testing plot and further broken down into different practices being tested. The solutions from this project are expected to help protect biodiversity on farms, improve water and soil quality and, through the efficient management of resources, strengthening farmers' bottom lines. 

Soil Your T-Shirt

Getting their hands dirty, LLNB launched Soil Your T-Shirt in early June. Staff and site contractors buried over 25 100% cotton T-shirts at living lab sites throughout the province. The sites represent the innovation and scientific research activities into healthy soil with the goal of comparing different BMPs to visually measure differences in soil health. The T-shirts will be dug up in early August and examined – a degraded T-shirt means significant bacterial activity, which is an indicator of healthy soil.

Activities like Soil Your T-shirt bring soil science to life, showing the tangible effects of sustainable practices. The degraded T-shirts are a reminder of the foundational role that soil health plays in supporting a resilient, sustainable future for farming and a healthier planet.

CRSB Certified and have lending with Farm Credit Canada? FCC wants to help recognize your efforts and commitment to sustainability. FCC’s 2025 Sustainability Incentive is now open, and the max payment just doubled to $4,000 for CRSB Certified producers! 

Maritime Livestock Price Insurance Pilot Program (MLPIPP)

Click on the image below to visit the MLPIPP website.

Options for Purchasing Cattle Ear Tags in New Brunswick:

1. Directly from the CCIA website (to learn how to activate your webstore account, click here)
2. From a CCIA Approved Dealer: list can be viewed larger on the NBCP website

Atlantic Beef Products



Sign up for Atlantic Beef Products price updates by contacting Bruce Andrews. To be added to his distribution list, send an email to: bandrews@abpi.ca

Workforce Development - AgriNB

We encourage you to use the Job Bank to advertise your vacancies. To access the site, click here. The site allows job seekers to register and be notified of job postings.  

With the launch of the Seasonal Workforce Program in the Fredericton region this past summer. The program matches farm operators with workers to address workforce requirements throughout the production cycle.  Should you be interested in learning more about the program, contact Jimmy Alam, Shared Workforce Program Manager.

Jimmy Alam – Shared Workforce Program Manager           

evolution@agrinb.ca; 506-260-2213   

September 9, 2025 at 1:30 PM.

Discuss the opportunities of the various cover crop species in vegetable and small fruit rotations. NBDAAF specialists to join us and explain the benefits of different cover crops and where they fit during the season using a cover crop plot planted to demo some of the species.

Seed to plant these plots generously donated by Quality Seeds Ltd.

Snacks and drinks will be provided.

Rain date is Wednesday, September 10th at the same time.

September 10, 2025 at 10:00 AM.

Join NBSCIA for a field day "Importance of water and soil conservation through a combination of terracing systems, grassed waterways and optimal management of nitrogen and other nutrients in potato production in New Brunswick."

Register ahead to facilitate planning for the number of people attending.

Greener Horizons: Advancing Forage and Grassland Management

The CFGA's 16^th Annual Conference is happening Nov. 18-21, 2025 in Fredericton, NB with New Brunswick Soil & Crop Improvement Association!

This year’s theme focuses on innovation in forage and grassland management, with expert speakers, workshops, and farm tours you won’t want to miss.

Early Bird registration is now closed.

Visit the CFGA conference website for full details:

Sustainable Canadian Agricultural Partnership 

New Brunswick programming for the Sustainable Canadian Agricultural Partnership has launched!

*As stated in the SCAP Administrative Guidelines, the Canada / New Brunswick Sustainable Canadian Agricultural Partnership (Sustainable-CAP) policy framework is a five-year federal, provincial, and territorial Initiative which will operate from April 1, 2023, to March 31, 2028, unless otherwise announced. Program applications are welcome on an ongoing basis until funding is exhausted. Please check your desired program's administrative guidelines for full details.

AgriWorkplace Skills Training Program

More information available HERE.

Humane Transport Resources

Below is a collection of downloadable PDF resources from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency.

• Assessing Lameness for Transport
• Compromised or Unfit Animals at Assembly Centres
• Humane Transport Regulations - Then vs. Now
• Livestock Transport in Canada
• Transfer of Care
• Transporting Lactating Animals

Beef Cattle Research Council Webinars & Podcast

Upcoming webinars have been updated on the BCRC website HERE!

BCRC's Canadian Beef Cattle Podcast features the most popular content from BeefResearch.ca in an audio format. Each week you’ll hear valuable information on topics ranging from animal health and productivity to feed and forage management, and much more. Subscribe on your favourite podcast platform or find weekly episodes on BCRC's podcasts page.

Summer Sales: Sept 15

Fall Sales: Sept 29, Oct 13, Oct 27, Nov 10, Nov 24, Dec 8

Contact Carvell Crandlemire at 391-6188 or email carvellcrandlemire@gmail.com for auction dates and times.

Carvell’s Livestock Auction Barn

111 Wilmot Road, Wilmot, NB