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U.S. livestock: CME hogs end mixed as funds roll into new months

May. 8, 2014 at 4:10 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters –– Chicago Mercantile Exchange hog futures closed mixed on Thursday as funds sold, or rolled, the June contract and bought deferred months, traders said. Funds trading in CME’s hogs and live cattle markets shifted June long positions further back in a procedure known as the “roll” by […]

PED could cut U.S. output by seven per cent in 2014: Rabobank

May. 7, 2014 at 6:03 pm CDT

By Theopolis Waters

U.S. livestock: Fallen cash prices extend CME hogs’ losses

May. 7, 2014 at 4:54 pm CDT

By Theopolis Waters

Toronto’s Quality Meat Packers officially bankrupt

May. 7, 2014 at 4:45 pm CDT

By Staff

EU toughens rules on imports in response to PEDv

May. 6, 2014 at 5:29 pm CDT

U.S. livestock: CME feeder cattle hit all-time high as calf prices firm

May. 6, 2014 at 4:52 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange feeder cattle futures on Tuesday hit an all-time high, supported by firm prices for young calves, or feeder cattle, traders said. Feedlots are paying more for calves after years of drought in parts of the U.S. shrank the herd to a 63-year low. […]

By Theopolis Waters

U.S. livestock: CME live cattle sag on profit-taking

May. 5, 2014 at 4:21 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters –– Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle finished lower on Monday, pressured by profit-taking that erased Friday’s gains pegged to steady-to-better market-ready or cash cattle prices, traders said. Monday was a day to evaluate this week’s cash cattle sales and subsequent wholesale beef prices, said Archer Financial Services […]

By Theopolis Waters

U.S. livestock: CME live cattle end lower after volatile day

May. 2, 2014 at 7:05 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures ended lower on Friday after a choppy session, dragged down by profit-taking that trumped steady-to-higher prices for market-ready or cash cattle, traders said. On Friday, cash cattle in Texas traded at $146 per hundredweight (cwt), up $1 from last week, […]

By Theopolis Waters

CME fines Ont. Teachers for hog trades

May. 2, 2014 at 3:43 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — The Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board, which manages investments for Canada’s largest single-profession pension plan, violated speculative position limits in CME Group’s lean hog futures market, the exchange operator said Friday. Chicago-based CME fined the board $15,000 and ordered it give up nearly $18,000 in profits […]

France to ban pigs, byproducts from N. America, Japan over PED

May. 2, 2014 at 3:20 pm CDT

Paris | Reuters –– France will ban imports of live pigs, pork-based byproducts and pig sperm from the U.S., Canada, Mexico and Japan to protect against a virus that has killed millions of piglets in North America and Asia, a farm ministry official said on Friday. The ban, which is […]

By Sybille De La Hamaide