Insights and Stories on Beef Cattle

beef cattle in a feedlot in Western Canada

Klassen: Feeding margin uncertainty weighs on feeder cattle market

Jun. 3, 2025 at 9:05 am CDT

For the week ending May 31, Western Canadian feeder cattle markets traded steady to as much as $10 lower on average. Dryer grass conditions in certain regions of Manitoba and central and northern Saskatchewan may have contributed to the softer tone at certain locations. Many feedlot operators continue to sit […]

Klassen: Buying interest for feeder cattle subsides

May. 20, 2025 at 10:09 am CDT

By Jerry Klassen

A group of cattle in an Alberta feedlot in the summer.

Klassen: Feedlot operators become cautious on purchases

May. 13, 2025 at 10:21 am CDT

By Jerry Klassen

Manitoba rancher manages change through education

May. 9, 2025 at 9:23 am CDT

By Melissa Jeffers-Bezan

Klassen: Higher packer bids enhance feeder complex

Apr. 29, 2025 at 11:59 am CDT

By Jerry Klassen

Black Angus breed cattle in a feedlot or feed yard. Ear tags and electronic monitoring tags have been touched up to removed distinguishing numbers and features

U.S. livestock: Cattle rise as Mexican imports questioned

Apr. 28, 2025 at 3:14 pm CDT

Chicago cattle contracts rose on Monday as the U.S. threatened to to block Mexican cattle imports over New World screwworm concerns.

By Geralyn Wichers

U.S. livestock: Cattle lower amid broad selling pressure

Apr. 21, 2025 at 3:33 pm CDT

Cattle futures on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange were lower on Monday, retreating from early gains as the livestock markets found themselves caught up in the broad weakness triggered by threats from United States President Donald Trump to remove Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell.

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Klassen: Feeder market returns to historical highs

Apr. 15, 2025 at 1:36 pm CDT

For the week ending April 12, Western Canadian feeder cattle markets traded stead to as much as $10 higher compared to seven days earlier. The market has fully recovered from U.S. tariff uncertainty. Strength in the fed cattle market and healthy feeding margins continue drive replacement prices upward.

By Jerry Klassen

U.S. livestock: Prices push upward; boxed beef slips back

Apr. 11, 2025 at 3:04 pm CDT

Live and fed cattle futures and those for lean hogs on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange were higher on Friday.

By Glen Hallick

U.S. livestock: Losses for cattle, upswing in hog prices

Apr. 10, 2025 at 3:15 pm CDT

Live and fed cattle futures on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange were lower on Thursday, while those for lean hogs were higher. The June live cattle contract retreated 3.175 cents at 195.200 cents per pound. May feeder cattle futures dropped 2.900 cents at 275.300 cents per pound. The USDA reported wholesale […]

By Glen Hallick

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