Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures climbed on Wednesday, underpinned as ranchers move up placements of calves amid drought conditions across the southern U.S. Plains, analysts said. “The fall-weaned calves are starting to come through,” said Austin Schroeder, commodity analyst at Brugler Marketing. “Placements have been pushed ahead, with the drought.” […] Read more
U.S. livestock: CME live cattle firm, drought accelerates selling
Lean hog futures follow cash prices up
U.S. livestock: CME live cattle, feeder cattle set multi-month highs
October lean hogs down on day
Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures on Tuesday rose to their highest level since April on concerns about tightening livestock supplies, analysts said. Feeder cattle futures hit a February high, while lean hog futures fell to their lowest level in more than a week. The U.S. Department of Agriculture is projecting […] Read more
U.S. livestock: Lean hog, live cattle futures down on profit-taking
CME September feeder cattle also down
Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange lean hog futures closed lower on Friday on cooling wholesale pork prices and profit-taking at week’s end, a day after the benchmark October contract set a life-of-contract high. Cattle futures also set back on profit-taking, but the most-active October live cattle contract posted a second straight weekly advance, […] Read more
U.S. livestock: Live cattle, hogs firm on meaty consumer demand
Production 'probably hit our seasonal peak'
Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures rose on Thursday, with several back months hitting new life-of-contract highs on thin trading, as domestic demand for beef this summer continues to be stronger than expected, traders said. Meanwhile, lean hog futures rose — with the October and December contracts hitting new life-of-contract high […] Read more
U.S. livestock: Hog, cattle futures up on broad commodities rally
Lower-than-expected inflation data provides boost
Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange lean hog futures rose on Wednesday, with the October contract hitting a life-of-contract high on brisk pork demand and broad strength in commodities on signs of decelerating U.S. inflation, traders said. Livestock and other commodities rose along with Wall Street equity markets as lower-than-expected U.S. inflation data drove […] Read more
U.S. livestock: Cattle futures dip in technical, profit-taking pullback
CME hogs end day mixed
Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures fell on Tuesday in a technical-selling and profit-taking setback from 3-1/2 month highs posted in the prior session. Sharply lower feeder cattle futures amid higher corn feed costs put further pressure on live cattle contracts, as both livestock markets took a breather after scaling to […] Read more
ULethbridge and AAFC team up on bovine respiratory disease
Reading Time: < 1 minute Researchers in the University of Lethbridge’s Southern Alberta Genome Science Centre (SAGSC) and its bioinformatics core are collaborating with scientists at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada to find viable solutions to mitigate Bovine Respiratory Disease. They are working with other scientists to advance a genomic-based diagnostic pipeline for BRD, based on Alberta herd-specific pathogens, that will […] Read more
U.S. livestock: Cattle futures up with cash prices, tightening supplies
October lean hogs also gain on day
Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures climbed to a 3-1/2 month peak on Monday, supported by firm cash market prices and tightening supplies. Falling corn feed prices supported feeder cattle futures, while lean hog contracts also gained and touched the highest level since June 2021. CME August live cattle futures peaked […] Read more
Federal, provincial governments partner on ecological goods and services program
Few details available so far on the Resilient Agricultural Landscape Program, but producers think it’s a good step
Reading Time: 3 minutes A new federal ecological goods and services program, the first of its kind, was announced in late July as part of the next five-year agriculture framework dubbed the Sustainable Canadian Agricultural Partnership. About $250 million will fund a new Resilient Agricultural Landscape Program (RALP), designed to support ecological goods and services provided by the agriculture […] Read more
Let’s do what we can to keep our animals safe from blue-green algae
Reporting suspected algae blooms and checking provincial advisories are both good steps
Reading Time: 3 minutes Over the years with increased phosphorus and nitrogen getting into bodies of water, there have been more blue green algae blooms and that means more contact with cattle, as well as dogs, birds, wildlife and, of course, people. With cattle, most of the time we get sudden death but also neurology cases. Wildlife, including birds, […] Read more