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Cold, wet weather may help spread deadly piglet virus: USDA

Reading Time: 2 minutes Frigid temperatures across a large swath of the U.S. this week, followed by warmer conditions, could aid the spread of a fatal pig disease now in 22 states, affecting hundreds of thousands of pigs, a swine veterinarian said on Thursday. “The virus likes cold, wet and cloudy days,” said Rodney Baker, a swine veterinarian at […] Read more
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U.S. livestock: CME live cattle, hogs rise amid roll by funds

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle and hog futures on Wednesday gained as funds sold, or rolled, the February contract and bought deferred months, traders said. CME livestock fund investors liquidated their February long positions, and mainly bought April futures, in a procedure known as the “roll” by followers of the Goldman Sachs Commodity Index (S+PGSCI). […] Read more
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RFID tagging on cattle best left for warmer weather

Reading Time: 2 minutes Research into why radio frequency ID (RFID) tags sometimes just won’t stay put on cattle’s ears has found very cold temperatures have a “profound effect” on tag strength. Use of RFID tags is now mandated through the Canadian Cattle Identification Agency (CCIA) for traceability of individual cattle from birth through to slaughter. Several forms of […] Read more
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U.S. livestock: Weak cash sentiment undermines CME hog futures

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago Mercantile Exchange hog futures on Tuesday fell in anticipation of lower cash prices soon, traders and analysts said. The arctic blast that snarled transportation of livestock to market is expected to subside by midweek, freeing up more hogs that could pressure cash values, they said. The federal government estimated that packers on Tuesday processed […] Read more
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U.S. livestock: Big chill moves CME live cattle to record highs

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures, on a lead-month chart basis, notched a new high for a fourth straight session on Monday, partly driven by arctic air that disrupted livestock production in parts of the country, traders said. Treacherous travel conditions in the Midwest snarled the delivery of cattle and hogs to meat packers such […] Read more
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U.S. grains: Prices rise on bitter U.S. cold, heatwave in Argentina

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Reading Time: 2 minutes U.S. grain futures rose on Monday as bitterly cold temperatures threatened to damage dormant wheat crops in the United States and a heatwave put Argentina’s corn harvest at risk. Soybean futures jumped amid technical buying, while soymeal gained on expectations that the brutal U.S. cold will increase demand for livestock feed, traders said. The coldest […] Read more
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U.S. grains: Wheat up most since October on chill fears

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Reading Time: 2 minutes U.S. wheat futures surged 1.5 per cent on Friday, rebounding from the lowest level in about 20 months and posting their best daily gain since October, amid fears arctic temperatures could damage the dormant crop in the U.S. Wheat futures gained despite missing export business from top global buyer Egypt, which purchased 535,000 tonnes of […] Read more
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Australia’s farmers slaughter cattle, swelter out of record-hot 2013

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Reading Time: 3 minutes A searing heatwave is baking central and northern Australia, piling more misery on drought-hit cattle farmers who have been slaughtering livestock as Australia sweltered through the hottest year on record in 2013. Temperatures have topped 40 C in large parts of Australia’s key agricultural regions for most of the past week, with the mercury topping […] Read more

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