Alberta’s population remains stable… Cattle population, that is.
Numbers from Statistics Canada show that there are 4.85-million head in the province, representing about 40 percent in all of Canada.
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When only beef cattle are factored in, Alberta represents about half of Alberta’s population.
96 percent of Alberta’s cattle are beef, while the rest are dairy cattle.
In a news release, ATB Financial says the populations recovered over the last decade, starting with a scare with Mad Cow Disease in 2003, which cut total herd sizes by about a tenth.
The bank adds that it recovered three years later, but then fell again due to oversupply in North America. After reaching a low point in 2011, the population of cattle held mostly steady.
– Posted by BET
