Insights and Stories on Beef Cattle

Prairie forage supplies seen tightening

Mar. 21, 2014 at 3:31 pm CDT

CNS Canada –– Forage supplies are tightening as the winter drags on across Western Canada, according to provincial forage specialists, though the strong cattle market is allowing some producers to sell their animals at a fair price. The situation appears to be the most critical in Alberta, where a rising […]

Record prices not encouraging cattle herd expansion

Mar. 21, 2014 at 2:39 pm CDT

By Terryn Shiells

U.S. livestock: Fund selloff undercuts CME live cattle

Mar. 20, 2014 at 4:02 pm CDT

By Theopolis Waters

U.S. livestock: CME hog futures close mixed after volatile session

Mar. 19, 2014 at 2:50 pm CDT

By Theopolis Waters

U.S. livestock: CME hog futures gain, but slip from record high

Mar. 18, 2014 at 4:56 pm CDT

By Theopolis Waters

Klassen: Feeder cattle upward trend continues

Mar. 17, 2014 at 5:02 pm CDT

Feeder cattle weighing under 700 pounds sold $2-$4 per hundredweight (cwt) higher last week in Western Canada while heavier replacements were steady to $2/cwt above week-ago levels. Quality feeder cattle supplies are starting to wane this time of year and feedlot managers were aggressively bidding on performance-based replacements. Buying interest […]

By Jerry Klassen

U.S. livestock: Cash prices again spike CME hogs to new high

Mar. 17, 2014 at 4:23 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange hog futures marked a new high for a third straight session as tight supplies continued to drive up prices for market-ready hogs, traders said on Monday. Packers are finding it hard to buy hogs as the deadly porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDv) reduces […]

By Theopolis Waters

U.S. livestock: CME hogs hit new high on supply fears, PEDv

Mar. 13, 2014 at 3:04 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters –– Chicago Mercantile Exchange hog futures on Thursday hit a new high, with April closing up the three-cent limit, as prices for slaughter-ready hogs climbed fueled by tight supplies in part pegged to a deadly pig virus, traders said. The porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDv), which is […]

By Theopolis Waters

W. Manitoba feedlot building wrecked in fire

Mar. 13, 2014 at 12:43 pm CDT

A cattle feeding operation in western Manitoba has lost its office and several equipment bays in an overnight fire. The fire department and RCMP from Hamiota, about 80 km northwest of Brandon, were called at 3:20 a.m. Thursday to nearby Hamiota Feedlot, RCMP said in a release later Thursday morning. […]

By Staff

U.S. cattle deaths linked to Zilmax far exceed maker’s reports, study finds

Mar. 13, 2014 at 3:30 am CDT

Reuters — The number of U.S. cattle deaths that may be linked to the Merck and Co. feed additive Zilmax are much higher than the figures reported by the drug company to the federal government, according to a research study published Wednesday. The findings by researchers from Texas Tech University […]

By P.J. Huffstutter Tom Polansek