Insights and Stories on Beef Cattle

Ex-Cargill beef plant worker fined in Alta. court

Oct. 22, 2014 at 4:43 pm CDT

Reuters — A former worker at Cargill’s High River, Alta. beef plant has been fined for tampering with wastewater samples required by the province, Alberta officials said Wednesday. Cargill Ltd., the Canadian division of the privately held U.S. company, was required by Alberta to study the plant’s wastewater, and limit […]

U.S. livestock: CME live cattle rebound with beef prices

Oct. 22, 2014 at 2:46 pm CDT

By Theopolis Waters

U.S. livestock: CME live cattle slide from record high on profit-taking

Oct. 21, 2014 at 6:06 pm CDT

By Theopolis Waters

Klassen: Feeder cattle experience volatile price action

Oct. 21, 2014 at 5:19 am CDT

By Jerry Klassen

U.S. livestock: Fund buying lifts CME live cattle to new high

Oct. 20, 2014 at 7:30 pm CDT

By Theopolis Waters

Revised U.S. COOL law still breaks trade rules, WTO panel finds

Oct. 20, 2014 at 1:09 pm CDT

A World Trade Organization compliance panel has ruled the U.S. government offside in its latest attempt at a trade-compliant country-of-origin labelling (COOL) law on meat. Following a long-awaited public release Monday, the ruling may give Canada and Mexico the ammunition to demand COOL be scrapped, on pain of retaliatory tariffs […]

By Dave Bedard

U.S. livestock: CME live cattle close weak; hogs higher

Oct. 17, 2014 at 5:11 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters –– Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures closed down slightly on Friday after investors digested this week’s prices for market-ready or cash cattle, traders said. October closed down 0.2 cent per pound to 165.05 cents, and December 0.25 cent lower at 165.05 cents (all figures US$). Cash […]

By Theopolis Waters

Ex-Cargill beef manager fights bid to keep him from rival

Oct. 16, 2014 at 6:54 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Valuable trade secrets that Cargill claims were stolen by a longtime manager in its meatpacking division who quit for rival JBS SA are nothing more than basic butchery, lawyers for the employee said in court documents. Privately-held Cargill, one of the top U.S. meat producers, is […]

By Tom Polansek

U.S. livestock: CME hogs limit-down as stock market slides

Oct. 15, 2014 at 4:50 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange lean hogs on Wednesday closed down their three-cent-per-pound maximum daily price limit led by Wall Street’s more than two per cent fall, traders and analysts said. U.S. stocks dropped on Wednesday as economic data buttressed worries over the health of the world economy […]

By Theopolis Waters

A+W pledges another ‘major ingredient change’ ahead

Oct. 15, 2014 at 6:00 am CDT

Canada’s second-biggest burger chain plans to follow up its new sourcing policies for beef and eggs with a third “major ingredient change,” due out next week. While releasing their results for the third quarter ending Sept. 7, A+W Revenue Royalties Income Fund and A+W Food Services of Canada said the […]

By Staff