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Klassen: Fed cattle bounce supports yearling market

By Jerry Klassen June 25, 2019

Reading Time: 2 minutes Compared to last week, western Canadian yearling prices were relatively unchanged while calf values were extremely variable. In Alberta, calf prices were holding value but in Saskatchewan and Manitoba, feeder cattle under 650 lbs. were $3 to as much as $8 lower in some cases. Recent rains in Saskatchewan have come too late and auction […] Read more

CME August 2019 lean hogs with Bollinger (20,2) bands, a gauge of market volatility. (Barchart)

Livestock, Markets, Reuters

U.S. livestock: Hog futures limit down on supply glut

By Tom Polansek June 21, 2019

Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago | Reuters — Hefty supplies of American pigs pushed Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) lean hog futures down by the daily exchange-imposed limit on Friday. Prices tumbled as the U.S. Department of Agriculture reported that meat companies such as Tyson Foods and JBS USA slaughtered 462,000 hogs, up nine per cent from a year earlier. […] Read more

Tom Geisler surveys damage to his farm, following flooding at Winslow, Neb., northwest of Omaha, on March 20, 2019. (Photo: Reuters/Humeyra Pamuk)

Crops, Markets, Reuters, Weather

U.S. farmers face devastation following Midwest floods

By Humeyra Pamuk, P.J. Huffstutter, Tom Polansek March 20, 2019

Reading Time: 4 minutes Winslow, Neb./Chicago | Reuters — Midwestern farmers have been gambling they could ride out the U.S.-China trade war by storing their corn and soybeans anywhere they could — in bins, plastic tubes, in barns or even outside. Now, the unthinkable has happened. Record floods have devastated a wide swath of the Farm Belt across Iowa, […] Read more

A view of a farm partially submerged in floodwater at Scribner, Neb. on March 14, 2019, in a still image from video obtained from social media on March 19. (Video screengrab from Angie Lange via Reuters)

Livestock, Reuters, Weather

Livestock, pets among victims in U.S. Midwest flooding

By Peter Szekely March 19, 2019

Reading Time: 2 minutes Reuters — The floods that have devastated large swaths of Nebraska and Iowa since late last week left house pets homeless, inflicted an unknown toll on livestock and led to several daring water rescues of animals from dogs to horses. Rescuers in the Omaha area, where the Platte, Elkhorn and Missouri rivers began spilling over […] Read more

Nebraska State Police tweeted aerial footage on March 15, 2019 showing cattle stranded on tiny islands in floodwaters around Fremont, about 50 km northwest of Omaha. (Nebraska State Police photo via @NEStatePatrol on Twitter)

General, Markets, Reuters, Weather

U.S. farm belt slammed by floods, heavy snow from bomb cyclone

By Karl Plume March 18, 2019

Reading Time: 2 minutes Reuters — A harsh late-winter storm broadsided a vast swath of the U.S. agriculture industry this week as heavy snow closed roads and buried cattle in the Plains while excessive rain flooded Midwest fields and swamped grain elevators. A “bomb cyclone” hurled hurricane-force winds, sparked tornadoes and dumped heavy snow and rain across the Plains […] Read more

Cereals, Corn, Crops, Markets

Feed weekly outlook: Prairie prices on the rise

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm March 7, 2019

Reading Time: < 1 minute MarketsFarm — Feed grain prices have been on the upswing recently, according to Nelson Neumann of Agfinity at Stony Plain, Alta. “We saw them at the end of last week, the beginning of this week, really jump up. Guys were scrambling to get stuff in before road bans,” he said. He attributed the increased prices […] Read more

A Tinder-inspired app meant to help farmers match up potential partners for their cattle is demonstrated at a farm in Hampshire, Britain on Feb. 12, 2019. (Photo: Reuters/Matthew Stock)

Beef Cattle, Dairy Cattle, Livestock, Machinery, Reuters

‘Tinder for cows’ matches livestock in mood for love

By Matthew Stock February 13, 2019

Reading Time: 2 minutes Petersfield, England | Reuters — A Tinder-inspired app is helping farmers match up potential partners for their cattle. Called “Tudder” — a mix of dating app Tinder and udder — it lets farmers swipe right on cattle they like the look of. They are then directed to a page on the SellMyLivestock website where they […] Read more

Beef Cattle, Livestock

Bovine TB strain in latest outbreak new to Canada

By Dave Bedard January 9, 2019

Reading Time: 2 minutes Canada’s latest outbreak of bovine tuberculosis in domestic cattle involves a strain of TB bacteria not related to any previously seen in Canadian livestock or wildlife. Culture testing of bacteria taken from a cow confirmed as TB-positive in November shows it’s “not related to past cases of bovine TB in Alberta or British Columbia or […] Read more

This file photo shows a rack of blood samples being tested for bovine tuberculosis in New Zealand dairy cattle. (Lakeview_Images/iStock/Getty Images)

Beef Cattle, Livestock

Bovine TB probe expands to Saskatchewan

By GFM Staff December 21, 2018

Reading Time: 2 minutes Updated, Dec. 24 — Some cattle in Saskatchewan are now under federally imposed movement controls as testing for bovine tuberculosis expands to 14 domestic herds in three provinces. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency announced Friday the tracing of a single case of bovine TB in a beef cow from a farm in British Columbia’s southern […] Read more

Beef Cattle, Livestock, Reuters

McDonald’s to curb antibiotic use in its beef supply

By Tom Polansek December 12, 2018

Reading Time: 2 minutes Reuters — McDonald’s Corp. said Tuesday it plans to reduce the use of antibiotics in its global beef supply, fueling projections that other restaurants will follow suit. The move by the world’s biggest fast-food chain addresses concerns that the overuse of antibiotics vital to fighting human infections in farm animals may diminish the drugs’ effectiveness […] Read more

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