U.S. producers buying cheap Canadian cattle

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CALGARY - While a U.S. lobby group fights to keep the border closed to Canadian cattle, some of its members are taking advantage of low prices and buying up Alberta livestock, say some Alberta beef producers.

The Ranchers-Cattlemen Action Legal Fund, United Stockgrowers of America (R-CALF USA) has been active in keeping the border closed after a single case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy was found in Alberta more than a year ago.

Those arguments, however, aren't stopping members of the organization from quietly buying livestock in Canada at prices driven down by the mad cow crisis, in anticipation of the border reopening, feedlot owner Rick Pascal says.


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