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Beef Cattle, Hogs, Livestock, Markets, Reuters

U.S. livestock: CME live cattle end lower after volatile day

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures ended lower on Friday after a choppy session, dragged down by profit-taking that trumped steady-to-higher prices for market-ready or cash cattle, traders said. On Friday, cash cattle in Texas traded at $146 per hundredweight (cwt), up $1 from last week, feedlot sources said. Cash cattle […] Read more
Hogs, Livestock, Markets, Reuters

CME fines Ont. Teachers for hog trades

Reading Time: < 1 minute Chicago | Reuters — The Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board, which manages investments for Canada’s largest single-profession pension plan, violated speculative position limits in CME Group’s lean hog futures market, the exchange operator said Friday. Chicago-based CME fined the board $15,000 and ordered it give up nearly $18,000 in profits for exceeding position limits on […] Read more
Beef Cattle, Hogs, Livestock, Markets, Reuters

U.S. livestock: CME feeder cattle at record high on strong calf prices

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange feeder cattle futures on Thursday closed at an all-time high, with some contracts up by the three-cent price limit, fueled by costly prices for young calves for fattening, traders said. Prices for light-weight feeder cattle are “on fire,” said Jim Clarkson, a broker with A+A Trading Inc. This […] Read more
Beef Cattle, Hogs, Livestock, Markets, Reuters

U.S. livestock: Cash price woes drop CME hogs

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange hog futures on Wednesday closed down more than two per cent, pressured by the recent decline in cash and wholesale pork prices, traders said. Although the morning’s wholesale pork prices inched upward, mixed cash hog returns left traders uneasy about those prices in the near term. “Packers are […] Read more
Beef Cattle, Hogs, Livestock, Markets, Reuters

U.S. livestock: Fund buying helps CME hogs close mostly higher

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange hogs closed mostly higher on Tuesday, with support from fund buying that helped most contracts beat back early-session losses, traders said. Short-covering contributed to overall CME hog advances. May futures could not overcome their bearish premium to CME’s hog index, at 116.83 cents, and lacklustre demand for market […] Read more
Hogs, Livestock

Another off-farm Manitoba site turns up PEDv

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Another unnamed “high-traffic” off-farm site in western Manitoba has been found to have the porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDv) present — albeit briefly, the province reported Monday. Manitoba’s office of the Chief Veterinary Officer on Monday did not mention any cases of the virus in hogs that had been at the site. The latest confirmation […] Read more
Beef Cattle, Hogs, Livestock, Markets, Reuters

U.S. livestock: CME feeder cattle hit record high as supplies tight

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange feeder cattle futures spiked to a record high on Monday, driven by tight supplies of young calves for fattening at feedlots, traders said. Fewer cattle are available now following years of drought in parts of the United States that have forced ranchers to downsize their herds. The U.S. […] Read more
Hogs, Livestock

Alta. gathers GF2 funding for PED prevention

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Reading Time: < 1 minute The Alberta and federal governments have assembled $1.35 million in funding for the province’s hog sector to further build up biosecurity against diseases such as porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED). The money, budgeted for Alberta Pork from the Growing Forward 2 (GF2) ag policy funding framework, is on top of previously-announced GF2 grants for farmers and […] Read more

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