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Livestock, Markets

Klassen: Adverse weather weighs on Western Canadian feeder market

By Jerry Klassen April 16, 2024
Reading Time: 2 minutes Southern Alberta has received over 200 percent of normal precipitation over the past 30 days. Pen conditions are rated poor to very poor in the main feeding pockets of Alberta. Saskatchewan and Manitoba have received less than 40 per cent of normal while Central Alberta has normal to below normal precipitation.

(Photo courtesy Canada Beef Inc.)
Markets, Reuters

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures sink to multi-month lows

By Reuters, Tom Polansek April 12, 2024
Reading Time: < 1 minute Technical selling, fund liquidation and demand concerns drove Chicago Mercantile Exchange cattle futures to multi-month lows on Friday, analysts said.


File photo of cattle in a Kansas feedlot. (BeyondImages/E+/Getty Images)
Markets, Reuters

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures turn higher, hog futures rebound

By P.J. Huffstutter, Reuters April 11, 2024
Reading Time: < 1 minute Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) cattle futures firmed on Thursday, bolstered by technical trading and anticipated consumer demand going into the grilling season, analysts said.

File photo of cattle in an Alberta feedlot. (Geralyn Wichers photo)
Markets, Reuters

U.S. livestock: CME livestock futures turn higher amid rising wholesale prices

By P.J. Huffstutter, Reuters April 9, 2024
Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) cattle futures turned higher on Tuesday, as continued strength in wholesale prices eased concerns about consumer demand - even as investors grew nervous about ongoing inflationary concerns and rising consumer prices, traders said.


(Geralyn Wichers photo)
Livestock, Markets

Klassen: Buyers step back on feeder cattle due to bird flu

By Jerry Klassen April 9, 2024
Reading Time: 2 minutes Compared to last week, Western Canadian feeder cattle markets traded $4-$8/cwt lower while some packages of heavier replacements dropped as much as $12/cwt, and three main factors led to weaker prices.

Photo: Canada Beef Inc.
Markets, Reuters

U.S. livestock: CME live cattle futures rise on wholesale prices, technical trade

By P.J. Huffstutter, Reuters April 8, 2024
Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) live futures turned higher on Monday, as a flurry of technical trading and strength in wholesale prices helped contracts rebound off recent months' lows, traders said.


(Geralyn Wichers photo)
Markets, Reuters

U.S. livestock: Cattle tumble ahead of weekend on bird flu fears

By Karl Plume, Reuters April 5, 2024
Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures plunged on Friday to the lowest point since mid-January as concerns about beef demand amid reports of avian influenza in cattle sparked fund long liquidation ahead of the weekend.

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Markets, Reuters

U.S. livestock: Live cattle end firm as bird flu selloff seen overdone

By Karl Plume, Reuters April 5, 2024
Reading Time: < 1 minute Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures firmed on Thursday in a bargain-buying rebound from the prior session's two-month lows, as some investors deemed the recent drop in prices to be overdone.


Photo: File
Markets, Reuters

U.S. grains: Cattle end lower on beef demand concerns, hogs higher

By Karl Plume, Reuters April 3, 2024
Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures fell to a fresh two-month low on Wednesday on technical selling and fund liquidation, as investors gauged whether beef demand would suffer amid recent news of avian influenza in dairy cattle.

(Photo courtesy Canada Beef Inc.)
Markets, Reuters

U.S. livestock: Cattle claw back some losses after bird flu selloff

By Karl Plume, Reuters April 2, 2024
Reading Time: < 1 minute Chicago Mercantile Exchange cattle futures rebounded on Tuesday as traders reassessed the market after worries about cattle infected with avian influenza had triggered a sharp selloff a day earlier.


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