Insights and Stories on Beef Cattle

Klassen: Feeder cattle market looking forward

Jan. 6, 2015 at 3:59 am CST

Auction markets across Western Canada will start off the New Year with fairly strong momentum. Newton’s first law of physics states that an object in motion will stay in motion until acted upon by an opposite force. U.S. fed cattle prices staged a miraculous recovery last week and it now […]

U.S. allows imports of Irish beef, first EU shipments in 17 years

Jan. 5, 2015 at 4:14 pm CST

By Reuters

U.S. livestock: CME hogs sag as funds sell; live cattle rise

Jan. 5, 2015 at 3:11 pm CST

By Theopolis Waters

Shake Shack IPO comes amid hunger for premium burgers

Jan. 2, 2015 at 6:47 pm CST

By Anjali Athavaley

U.S. livestock: CME feeder cattle in biggest one-day jump in seven months

Jan. 2, 2015 at 5:09 pm CST

By Theopolis Waters

U.S. livestock: CME live cattle end session weaker

Dec. 31, 2014 at 3:21 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle finished lower on Wednesday on year-end profit taking, trader said. However, futures extended their yearly winning streak to six in a row after finishing up 23 per cent for 2014 amid tight supplies after years of drought, an analyst said. Upward-trending […]

By Theopolis Waters

U.S. livestock: CME live cattle close weaker on profit taking

Dec. 30, 2014 at 4:50 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle finished lower in choppy trading on Tuesday, pressured by profit-taking that outpaced initial buying led by bullish fundamentals, traders said. December, which will expire on Wednesday, closed 0.625 cent per pound lower at 165.875 cents, and February was down 0.3 cent […]

By Theopolis Waters

Klassen: Feeder cattle market ends on mixed tone

Dec. 29, 2014 at 5:55 pm CST

Western Canadian feeder cattle markets have ended the year on a mixed tone with most auction barns closed for the holiday season. Alberta packers were buying limited volumes of fed steers at $178 per hundredweight (cwt), down from highs of $183 earlier in December. The uncertainty over feedlot margins for […]

By Jerry Klassen

U.S. livestock: CME live cattle climb on beef prices, cash optimism

Dec. 29, 2014 at 4:55 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle posted significant gains on Monday, led by strong wholesale beef prices and anticipation of steady or better cash prices this week, traders said. December closed 1.75 cents per pound higher at 166.5 cents, and February up 2.525 cents at 165 cents […]

By Theopolis Waters

U.S. researchers develop CWD vaccine

Dec. 22, 2014 at 3:04 pm CST

Researchers at NYU Langone Medical Center and elsewhere say that a vaccination they have developed to fight a brain-based, wasting syndrome among deer and other animals may hold promise on two additional fronts: Protecting U.S. livestock from contracting the disease, and preventing similar brain infections in humans. The study, to […]

By Langone Medical Center release