Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) feeder cattle futures reached life-of-contract highs, while live cattle futures hit multi-month peaks on Thursday, as meat packers struggled to find inventory, analysts said.
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U.S. livestock: Cattle futures rise sharply on low inventory
U.S. livestock: Lean hog futures fall on year-end position squaring, demand doubts
Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) lean hog futures fell to two-month lows on Tuesday, as traders squared positions before the year's end and uncertainty lingered over export demand in the coming months, market analysts said.
Klassen: Feeder market has many factors to digest in 2025
Reading Time: 2 minutes For the week ending December 28, there were no feeder cattle sales in Western Canada; however, that didn’t stop cattle producers from emailing or calling me over the holidays inquiring about market direction. I thought it would be an opportune time to discuss a couple factors that will influence the market direction over the next couple of months.
U.S. livestock: Lean hog futures fall on domestic, export demand uncertainty
Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) lean hog futures fell to two-month lows on Monday, hit by profit-taking and growing uncertainty over domestic and export demand in the coming months, market analysts said.
U.S. livestock: Cattle futures rise on strong beef, cash cattle markets
Reading Time: < 1 minute Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) live cattle futures ended higher on Friday, buoyed by rising wholesale beef prices and firm cash cattle markets, traders said.
$7.9 million cattle research project aims to find rumen efficiencies
Cross-Canada project to reduce methane production will be led by UBC researcher
Reading Time: 2 minutes A pan-Canadian research project will try to understand more about how methane is generated in the rumen of beef and dairy cattle.
China investigates beef imports as oversupply squeezes prices
Reading Time: 3 minutes China will launch an investigation into beef imports, the commerce ministry said on Friday, as the world's biggest meat importer and consumer grapples with an oversupplied market that has sent domestic prices to multi-year lows.
U.S. livestock: CME lean hogs end flat, demand for US pork underpins prices
Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago Mercantile Exchange lean hog futures finished flat on Tuesday as strong demand for U.S. pork underpinned the market a day after federal data showed the nation's herd was slightly bigger than expected, analysts said.
Klassen: Feeder market finishes 2024 on strong tone
Reading Time: 2 minutes For the week ending December 21, Western Canadian backgrounded cattle and heavier calves were unchanged to $5 lower on average. Calves in the 600-800 pound range were relatively unchanged while calves under 600 pounds were steady to $10 higher.
U.S. livestock: Live cattle mixed, feeder cattle firm on technical trading
Reading Time: < 1 minute Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) live cattle futures were mixed on Monday, with nearby contracts turning lower as traders adjusted their positions after a neutral government supply report last week, market analysts said.