Dairy Cattle, Guide Business

Early days

Posted on June 12, 2019 by Angela Lovell

Hogs, Soybeans

Definitely the road less travelled

Posted on June 5, 2019 by Ralph Pearce

Guide Business, Livestock

The way it happens

Posted on May 30, 2019 by Angela Lovell

Must Reads

• Guide Business, Hogs

  The look of leadership

  If Japan starts handing out honourary citizenships, you better believe Ray Price will be on their short list. Already, the…

  April 22, 2019

• Guide Business, Livestock

  The two sides of Denmark

  Two farmers; two philosophies. Jorgen Popp Peterson and Mogens Dall are hog farmers in southern Denmark. Both are 55 years…

  April 5, 2019

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  Partnership boom

  Since its launch about two years ago, the company formed by grain farmers Richard and Annette Arnold and their son…

  April 1, 2019

• Guide Business, Livestock

  All for one

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  March 20, 2019

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  Travel plans

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  March 8, 2019

• Dairy Cattle, Guide Business

  Land at $75,000 per acre

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  March 1, 2019

Livestock, Markets, Reuters

U.S. livestock: CME hogs limit down on demand concerns

By Mark Weinraub 2 days ago

Chicago | Reuters — CME lean hog futures fell sharply on Friday, with the most-active October contract notching a limit-down move as traders worried that seasonal growth in supplies will outstrip demand. Weakness in the cash market also spilled over into the futures, traders said. The demand concerns stemmed from uncertainty about potential purchases from […] Read more

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Dairy Cattle, Livestock

Dairy farmers to get direct cash payment as trade compensation

By John Greig 2 days ago

Canadian dairy farmers will be getting direct cash compensation after the government gave up dairy market access to other countries in recent trade deals. The compensation follows promises by the Trudeau government — and the Harper government before it — that dairy farmers would be compensated in some form for the loss of market. Why […] Read more

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Livestock, Markets, Reuters

U.S. livestock: Hog futures sink to five-month low

By Mark Weinraub 3 days ago

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) hog futures fell to a five-month low on Thursday, pressured by big supplies that overwhelmed any optimism about news that China made its biggest purchases of U.S. pork in seven weeks, traders said. The world’s largest pork consumer bought 10,211 tonnes of U.S. pork between Aug. 2-8 […] Read more

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Livestock, Markets, Reuters

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures mixed, hogs firm

By Mark Weinraub 4 days ago

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) cattle futures were mixed on Wednesday, with deferred months mostly higher on bargain buying after hitting multiyear lows on Tuesday. But nearby live cattle contracts continued to weaken. The front-month contract hit its lowest level since October 2016 on expectations that the shutdown of a major beef […] Read more

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Dairy Cattle, Livestock, Reuters

Indian court acquits six in cow vigilante case

By Mayank Bhardwaj 4 days ago

New Delhi | Reuters — An Indian court on Wednesday acquitted six men of the killing of a 55-year-old Muslim dairy farmer, citing lack of evidence, raising questions over the prosecution’s failure to make its case despite videos of a crowd beating him in the street. The 2017 attack on Pehlu Khan and his two […] Read more

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Livestock, Markets, Reuters

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures limit down again on Tyson fire

By Mark Weinraub 5 days ago

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) cattle futures plunged to multiyear lows on Tuesday, with some contract months for both live cattle and fed cattle ending at their daily trading limits for the second day in a row. Traders said the market continued to weigh the impact of a fire at a key […] Read more

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Livestock, Markets, Reuters

U.S. livestock: Cattle limit down after Tyson beef plant burns

By Mark Weinraub August 12, 2019

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange cattle futures dropped their daily trading limits on Monday after a fire at a major beef plant threatened to limit demand for the animals for months, traders said. Live cattle prices settled at their lowest since July 3 while feeder cattle contract dropped to their lowest since June […] Read more

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Beef Cattle, Livestock, Weather

Beef sector sees place in UN report’s lower-emission vision

By GFM Staff August 9, 2019

While a new United Nations report on climate change and land calls for “rebalancing diets,” the policy paths it seeks are a good fit for beef cattle ranching as Canadians know it, the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association says. Responding Thursday to the report from the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the CCA said Canada’s […] Read more

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Livestock, Markets, Reuters

U.S. livestock: Lean hogs end mixed as trade gauges trade war impact

By Karl Plume August 9, 2019

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) lean hog futures were mixed on Friday in choppy trading as investors weighed rising pork prices against weak cash hog values and rising concerns about pork exports to China. Spread trading steered some contracts up sharply while others, including actively traded October and December futures, retreated. “Spreads […] Read more

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Hogs, Livestock, Reuters

Packers win dismissal of U.S. pork price-fixing suits

By Reuters August 8, 2019

Reuters — A federal judge on Thursday dismissed antitrust lawsuits accusing several large U.S. pork companies of conspiring to limit the supply of pork to inflate prices and their own profits at the expense of consumers and other purchasers. Chief Judge John Tunheim of the federal court in Minneapolis said the plaintiffs failed to show […] Read more

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