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U.S. livestock: Cattle rise on strong cash markets

By Reuters April 20, 2018

Reading Time: < 1 minute Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures rose on Friday, with nearby contracts supported by firm cash markets and strong wholesale beef values, traders said. Deferred offerings rose as traders covered short positions ahead of the U.S. Agriculture Department’s monthly Cattle on Feed report. The report, released after the close of the […] Read more

Livestock, Markets, Reuters

U.S. livestock: Live cattle rise on strong packer margins

By Reuters April 17, 2018

Reading Time: < 1 minute Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures firmed on Tuesday, bouncing back from Monday’s declines. Traders said good profit margins at packers supported the gains. April live cattle closed 0.9 cent/lb. higher at 118.05 cents (all figures US$). The contract hit its highest since March 21. June ended up 0.725 cent, to […] Read more

Hogs, Livestock, Markets, Reuters

U.S. March hog herd hits record high

By Theopolis Waters March 30, 2018

Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago | Reuters — The number of hogs on U.S. farms in the December-February quarter was up 3.1 per cent from the same period a year ago, a record high for the quarter, according to Thursday’s U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) report. Farmers added extra pigs, encouraged by less-costly feed during that period and the […] Read more

Beef Cattle, Dairy Cattle, Livestock, Reuters

China promotes livestock farming to digest corn stocks

By Dominique Patton August 10, 2017

Reading Time: 2 minutes Beijing/China – China wants to turn its grain basket in the northeast into a national meat and dairy production base, said the agriculture ministry on Thursday, as part of a broader plan to create stronger demand for the region’s main crops. Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning and Inner Mongolia account for around a quarter of China’s total […] Read more

From clockwise at left: Riley and Lee-Anne Kemp, Michelle Schram and Troy Stozek, and Wayne and Maria McDonald of Manitoba.

Guide Business, Livestock

Three farm families, five years later

Country Guide revisits three young Manitoba farm families building their future in agriculture

By Angela Lovell July 25, 2017

Reading Time: 2 minutes In 2012, Country Guide discovered a cluster of young farmers near out-of-the-way Cartwright, Man. They were all searching for ways to start small in the heart of big-farm Canada, and they all saw their best chance in a combination of direct marketing and holistic practices. To some readers, it seemed like a dream. To others, […] Read more

Crops, Machinery

Hogs seen as key factor in input cost hikes

By Terry Fries July 11, 2017

Reading Time: 2 minutes CNS Canada — Canada’s Farm Input Price Index has climbed slightly for the first quarter of this year. Canada-wide, the index rose 1.3 per cent for the first quarter of this year compared to the final quarter of 2016. When comparing this year’s first quarter to last year’s first quarter, however, input prices in the […] Read more

Hogs, News

VIDEO: Hog farmers at Ontario Pork Congress optimistic

By John Greig June 23, 2017

Reading Time: < 1 minute Glacier FarmMedia’s John Greig attended the recent Ontario Pork Congress in Stratford, Ont., and spoke with the chair of Ontario Pork about the future of the province’s pork industry and what role international markets are likely to play in the coming future.

(Gloria Solano-Aguilar photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

Hogs, Livestock, Reuters, Weather

Oklahoma wildfires kill thousands of pigs

By Michael Hirtzer, Renita D. Young March 10, 2017

Reading Time: 2 minutes Reuters — Wildfires devastated a Smithfield Foods hog farm in Laverne, Oklahoma, killing at least several thousand pigs, company and local officials said Friday. The exact number of swine killed in the Oklahoma fire, which began on Monday, was not immediately known. Smithfield did not say how many died in the blaze, but said no […] Read more

Beef Cattle, Livestock, Reuters, Weather

U.S. Plains wildfires leave thousands of cattle dead

By Jon Herskovitz March 9, 2017

Reading Time: 2 minutes Austin | Reuters — Fast-moving wildfires that burned through nearly two million acres of Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas this week have devastated ranches and left thousands of cattle and other livestock dead, officials said Thursday. Many of the grass fires grew rapidly on Monday due to dry weather and parched prairie land in the Texas […] Read more

(Regis Lefebure photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

Hogs, Livestock, Markets

Record U.S. hog slaughter puts pressure on Canadian pork prices

By Dave Sims November 10, 2016

Reading Time: 1 minute CNSC/Winnipeg – A record week for U.S. slaughterhouses is weighing on hog prices in Canada. According to the USDA, hogs slaughtered under federal inspection for the week ended November 5 were pegged at 2.532 million head, which is an all-time record. That number is also up 7.2 per cent from the 2.362 million head processed a […] Read more

Daily Network News

Moroccan fertilizer maker OCP expects output to drop 30 per cent in Q2, sources say

Feed Grain Weekly: Demand rises despite war uncertainty

How farmers can manage stress, anxiety during spring seeding

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