Insights and Stories on Beef Cattle

Klassen: Softer beef complex weighs on feeders

Jul. 21, 2015 at 9:19 am CDT

Western Canadian feeder cattle experienced a week-over-week decline of $3 to $6 on average. In central Alberta, the market appeared to hold value on larger strings of quality feeders but the market in all other regions of the Prairies appeared to lack buying enthusiasm. Alberta fed cattle prices were quoted […]

U.S. livestock: CME live cattle futures finish mostly weak; hogs lower

Jul. 20, 2015 at 3:54 pm CDT

By Theopolis Waters

France says livestock crisis putting thousands of farms at risk

Jul. 18, 2015 at 12:50 am CDT

By Reuters

U.S. livestock: CME live cattle settle mixed after bouncy session

Jul. 17, 2015 at 4:00 pm CDT

By Theopolis Waters

U.S. livestock: Sluggish beef demand takes down CME live cattle

Jul. 16, 2015 at 6:00 pm CDT

By Theopolis Waters

Chinese billionaire buys Australian cattle stations

Jul. 15, 2015 at 11:35 pm CDT

Sydney | Reuters –– A Chinese billionaire has bought two large Australian cattle stations for A$47 million (C$44.8 million), in at least the third deal this year involving a Chinese investor buying into the country’s farmlands. Xingfa Ma, who owns the Tianma Bearing Group Co., snapped up 40,000 head of […]

By Jane Wardell

U.S. livestock: Lower cash-price sentiment weakens CME live cattle

Jul. 15, 2015 at 3:06 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters –– After gaining for the first time in five days on Tuesday, Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures resumed their downward trend on Wednesday, pressured by expectations for lower cash prices this week, traders said. August closed 0.125 cent/lb. lower at 147.025 cents, and October down 0.1 […]

By Theopolis Waters

Talks wrap on Canada/Ukraine free trade pact

Jul. 14, 2015 at 6:37 pm CDT

Canada’s crop and livestock producers expect to benefit soon from a free trade agreement with Ukraine, on which the two countries’ governments have now formally completed talks. Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced Tuesday, during a visit from Ukraine’s Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, that trade negotiations between the two countries wrapped up in […]

By Staff

Sask. to open protected grasslands for grazing

Jul. 14, 2015 at 5:39 pm CDT

Crown-held native prairie and other grasslands held for wildlife conservation in Saskatchewan will be opened up to ranchers needing grazing land for cattle in dry areas. Environment Minister Herb Cox announced Tuesday the province will make about 90,000 acres of Fish and Wildlife Development Fund (FWDF) land available to cattle […]

By Staff

U.S. livestock: Beef price upswing snaps skid for live cattle

Jul. 14, 2015 at 3:01 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — For the first time in five sessions Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures landed in positive territory on Tuesday, helped by the turnaround in wholesale beef values, traders said. August closed 0.55 cent/lb. higher at 147.15 cents, and October up 0.6 cent to 150.325 cents (all […]

By Theopolis Waters