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CME February 2019 lean hogs with 50-day moving average. (Barchart)

U.S. livestock: Hogs slump on technical selloff, cash worries

By Michael Hirtzer December 24, 2018

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. lean hog futures declined as much as 1.4 per cent on Monday in technical selling and worries of weaker prices for hogs in cash markets, traders and analysts said. Cattle futures, meanwhile, were mostly higher on light chart-based buying in an abbreviated session at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange ahead of […] Read more

CME February 2019 lean hogs with 200-day moving average. (Barchart)

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U.S. livestock: Hogs, cattle end mixed ahead of supply reports

By Karl Plume December 19, 2018

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle and lean hog futures ended mixed on Wednesday as traders squared positions ahead of two key U.S. government reports due on Thursday, traders said. The U.S. Department of Agriculture is scheduled to release its monthly cattle on feed report and its quarterly hogs and pigs report […] Read more

CME October 2018 lean hogs, with 20-day moving average. (Barchart)

Livestock, Markets, Reuters

U.S. livestock: Hog futures near three-month high

By Michael Hirtzer September 19, 2018

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. lean hog futures climbed to a nearly three-month high on Wednesday, boosted by gains in cash hog markets, before futures trimmed gains to finish the session mixed. Cattle futures were nearly flat on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, in technical trading as dealers awaited a monthly U.S. Department of Agriculture cattle […] Read more

Livestock, Markets, Reuters

U.S. livestock: Hogs jump on hopes for China trade talks

By Karl Plume September 12, 2018

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. lean hog futures jumped more than two per cent on Wednesday on news that the Trump administration is attempting to restart trade negotiations with China, a major importer which has steep duties on shipments of U.S. pork. Senior U.S. officials led by Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin recently sent an invitation […] Read more

Pork baby back ribs. (Grandriver/Getty Images)

Livestock, Markets, Reuters

U.S. livestock: Strong cash prices reverse CME hogs’ losses

By Reuters June 6, 2018

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange lean hogs on Wednesday closed up sharply, spurred by short-covering and escalating prices for slaughter-ready, or cash, hogs that reversed Tuesday’s market losses, said traders. On Tuesday, some CME hog contracts day fell more than two per cent after Mexico imposed tariffs on U.S. pork following Washington’s higher […] Read more

(National Pork Board (U.S.) photo via ARS/USDA)

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Cash hog market benefits from barbecue season

By Erin Debooy June 7, 2016

CNS Canada –– The Canadian hog market is gearing up to start bringing home the bacon. Weekly cash hog prices are higher on continued stronger seasonal pork cutout values, with lower supply creating better prices. “Prices generally do increase over the summer,” said Brad Marceniuk, a provincial livestock economist in Saskatoon. “I expect hog prices […] Read more

(Regis Lefebure photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

Hogs, Livestock, Markets

Pork prices gain on seasonal demand, tighter numbers

By Jade Markus April 25, 2016

CNS Canada — Western Canadian cash hog prices have been trending higher as supplies tighten and demand increases moving into the summer, two Prairie analysts say. “A lot of that has to do with lower slaughter numbers, higher pork cutout values,” said Brad Marceniuk, a livestock economist with the Saskatchewan government in Saskatoon. Hog numbers […] Read more

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U.S. livestock: Hogs slump on technical selloff, cash worries

U.S. livestock: Hogs, cattle end mixed ahead of supply reports

U.S. livestock: Hog futures near three-month high

U.S. livestock: Hogs jump on hopes for China trade talks

U.S. livestock: Strong cash prices reverse CME hogs’ losses

Cash hog market benefits from barbecue season

Pork prices gain on seasonal demand, tighter numbers

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