It's always a gamble when you're in the business of raising cattle and grain.

The chair of the Alberta Beef Producers, Bob Lowe ranches near Nanton and he says input costs, like the price of hay, is still high but it's tough to tel what the future holds.

"They'll (high prices) be there until the next crop comes off and we don't know what that's going to look like yet," Lowe says.

Lowe says producers were getting a little concerned with how dry it was but they can't control the weather.

While the markets for feeding cattle are bad, he says, that's the cycle they're in you always know there's going to be a correction.