It could be a tough winter in terms of feed supplies for Manitoba's livestock producers.

Tom Teichroeb is president of Manitoba Beef Producers.

"Even though some of the other areas who now have more sufficient rain, not only are those crops coming off quite a bit later, where people are strictly trying to look to gain volume versus the high-energy product they would normally take off in multiple cuts on the alfalfa side," he said. "We're looking tough."

Teichroeb expects feed production in his area, near Langruth, to be below 50 per cent of a normal year.