Insights and Stories on Beef Cattle

Garlic is worth its salt for fly control

Jun. 30, 2017 at 11:08 am CDT

Feeding a little garlic powder to cattle does keep flies away and there are finally numbers to show it. Cows that received trace mineral (TM) salt fortified with garlic powder had 52 per cent and 56 per cent fewer flies on average than the two control groups that received TM […]

Canada, other countries raise meat inspection bar for Brazil

Jun. 28, 2017 at 4:12 pm CDT

By Rod Nickel Tom Polansek

Beef processor cuts deal with ABC in ‘pink slime’ defamation case

Jun. 28, 2017 at 1:11 pm CDT

By Timothy McLaughlin

Klassen: Low volumes characterize feeder cattle market

Jun. 27, 2017 at 6:11 pm CDT

By Jerry Klassen

Burger King pledges to end deforestation by 2030

Jun. 23, 2017 at 7:41 pm CDT

By Chris Arsenault

Brazil farm minister heads to U.S. over fresh beef ban

Jun. 23, 2017 at 3:58 pm CDT

Sao Paulo | Reuters — Brazil’s agriculture minister prepared to travel to the U.S. on Friday to fight a ban on imports of fresh Brazilian beef, which hit shares of local meatpackers and revived concerns about the image of the world’s largest beef exporter. “We will fight for this market!” […]

By Bruno Federowski roberto-samora

U.S. bans fresh Brazil beef imports over safety concerns

Jun. 22, 2017 at 8:28 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — The United States halted imports of fresh Brazilian beef on Thursday, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said, after a high percentage of shipments failed to pass safety checks. USDA had “recurring concerns about the safety of the products intended for the American market,” after increasing tests […]

By Tom Polansek

CFTC fines cattle futures traders US$5 million

Jun. 21, 2017 at 3:48 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. futures regulators fined a Memphis trading firm and three associates US$5 million on Wednesday for using a manipulative tactic in CME Group’s cattle futures, a market grappling with extreme volatility. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission said it penalized McVean Trading + Investments $1.5 million and […]

By Reuters

Brazil blocks JBS deal, seeks asset freeze

Jun. 21, 2017 at 3:33 pm CDT

Brasilia | Reuters — A Brazilian judge has blocked JBS SA’s planned sale of a South American unit while the attorney general’s office urged the company’s assets be frozen, in signs of fallout from a corruption probe involving the controlling shareholders of the world’s No. 1 meatpacker. Federal Judge Ricardo Leite […]

By Cesar Raizer Lisandra Paraguassu

JBS aims to shed Alberta feedlot in divestment plan

Jun. 20, 2017 at 12:18 pm CDT

Sao Paulo/Chicago | Reuters — Brazilian meatpacker JBS SA revealed a major divestment plan Tuesday, putting its Alberta cattle feeding assets and others on the block to cut debt after a corruption scandal raised concerns about its financing costs. JBS, whose controlling shareholder recently agreed to pay a massive leniency […]

By Michael Hirtzer Tatiana Bautzer