Insights and Stories on Beef Cattle

Aug. 14, 2014 at 5:22 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters –– Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures closed higher on Thursday on short-covering following recent heavy market losses, traders said. August live cattle ended 1.775 cents per pound higher at 150 cents, and October up 0.8 cent to 147.35 cents (all figures US$). CME live cattle chopped […]

By Theopolis Waters

Aug. 14, 2014 at 1:57 pm CDT

Canada’s first chance to prosecute a breach of its laws against traffic in dangerous pathogens has ended in a guilty plea from a previously well-regarded researcher over stray vials of brucellosis-causing bacteria. Dr. Klaus Nielsen, who had worked at the Canadian Food Inspection Agency’s Fallowfield lab southwest of Ottawa, was first […]

By Staff

Aug. 13, 2014 at 7:34 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures posted losses on Wednesday after packers cut the cost of beef at wholesale markets to stir retail buying ahead of the Labour Day holiday, traders said. August live cattle ended 1.4 cents per pound lower at 148.225, and October closed […]

By Theopolis Waters

Aug. 13, 2014 at 4:30 pm CDT

Washington | Reuters — The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Wednesday announced new procedures for detecting and removing unsafe ground beef from grocery stores and suppliers, as part of efforts to prevent potentially deadly illnesses caused by contaminated meat. The move “will allow the agency to trace contaminated ground beef […]

By Ros Krasny

Aug. 13, 2014 at 2:15 am CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Beef Products Inc. will reopen a Kansas processing plant on Monday to boost production of “lean finely textured beef,” which critics call “pink slime,” as wholesale beef prices soar with a shrinking U.S. cattle herd. The reopening of the Garden City, Kansas, plant comes more than […]

By P.J. Huffstutter