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U.S. livestock: Lean hogs sink on weak cash market

Oct. 24, 2019 at 5:08 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters – U.S. lean hog futures fell for the sixth time in seven sessions on Thursday, pressured by weak cash hog prices and disappointing export data that showed minimal new sales of U.S. pork to China. Ample supplies of hogs and higher average slaughter weights have swelled pork […]

Klassen: Feeder market experiences bouncing behaviour

Oct. 22, 2019 at 11:54 am CDT

By Jerry Klassen

Cargill suspends shifts at Kansas beef plant after explosion

Oct. 17, 2019 at 4:51 pm CDT

By Reuters

Klassen: Limited harvest progress weighs on feeder cattle

Oct. 15, 2019 at 3:58 am CDT

By Jerry Klassen

Klassen: Adverse weather tempers feeder market

Oct. 8, 2019 at 2:37 am CDT

By Jerry Klassen

New meat recall prolongs Ryding-Regency shutdown

Oct. 4, 2019 at 4:20 pm CDT

Ryding-Regency Meat Packers remains shut down, making an already tight processing capacity situation event more challenging for Ontario farmers. The Toronto company, along with St. Ann’s Food, announced a recall Tuesday of a long list of its products because of concerns with E. coli O157:H7. More products were added to […]

By John Greig

Klassen: Yearling prices remain firm

Sep. 30, 2019 at 9:52 pm CDT

Compared to last week, western Canadian yearling markets were relatively unchanged with the exception of southern Alberta where 800-plus-lb. feeders traded $5 to as much as $8 higher. Strength in deferred live cattle futures and weakness in barley prices were the main factors driving demand in the Lethbridge area. The […]

By Jerry Klassen

McDonald’s reiterates beef support during Beyond Meat test-drive

Sep. 30, 2019 at 8:34 pm CDT

The world’s biggest burger chain has aimed to reassure Canadian beef producers that its trial run of a plant-based burger doesn’t mark a retreat from the company’s primary protein. McDonald’s CEO John Betts, in a statement issued Friday directly to “our valued partners in the beef industry,” said he wants […]

By GFM Staff

Major veal processor launches new brand, non-GMO label

Sep. 30, 2019 at 1:56 pm CDT

Quebec veal, lamb and beef processor Delimax-Montpak is set to launch a new consumer brand across Canada featuring what it bills as the only GMO-free milk-fed veal on the market. The company said Tuesday it expected to have the new brand — Fontaine Family, named for the company’s founding family […]

By Dave Bedard

Last of trace-out quarantines lifted in bovine TB probe

Sep. 26, 2019 at 8:55 pm CDT

The last of 38 cattle herds to be checked for bovine tuberculosis in a federal trace-out investigation across three provinces has been released from movement controls. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency on Monday reported that a central Saskatchewan herd has now been released from controls which were imposed in December […]

By GFM Staff