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U.S. livestock: CME cattle dip on mild Plains outlook, East Coast snow

Jan. 4, 2018 at 5:37 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters – Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures turned lower on Thursday in a technical selling and profit-taking setback and on concerns of a slowdown in beef demand in the storm-hit eastern United States, traders said. A winter storm continued its march up the U.S. East Coast on […]

U.S. livestock: Hogs turn up on cash, wholesale pork prices

Jan. 3, 2018 at 8:17 pm CST

By Theopolis Waters

U.S. livestock: CME cattle rally on higher cash, beef prices

Jan. 2, 2018 at 4:49 pm CST

By Karl Plume

China to accept Canadian chilled beef, pork in pilot project

Dec. 4, 2017 at 6:03 pm CST

By Staff

HyLife co-founder Paul Vielfaure, 59

Nov. 30, 2017 at 3:25 pm CST

By Staff

Canadian pork cleared for Argentina

Nov. 29, 2017 at 8:05 pm CST

Argentina is now ready to import Canadian pork for the first time in about 15 years, federal officials report. Federal Agriculture Minister Lawrence MacAulay and Trade Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne announced Wednesday that access to the Argentinian market has been restored for Canadian pork effective “immediately.” Canadian pork processors had started […]

By Staff

Russia to restrict Brazilian pork, beef imports from Dec. 1

Nov. 20, 2017 at 4:01 pm CST

Moscow/Brasilia | Reuters – Russia will place temporary restrictions on imports of pork and beef products from Brazil from Dec. 1, the country’s agricultural safety watchdog Rosselkhoznadzor said on Monday. Russia said last week it was considering a ban on all pork and beef imports from Brazil after finding the […]

By Mateus Maia Polina Devitt

U.S. livestock: Fund selloff sinks CME live cattle to 4-month low

Nov. 20, 2017 at 3:46 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters – Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures fell to their lowest level in four months on Monday, hit by fund selling and Friday’s bearish U.S. government cattle report, traders said. Last Friday’s U.S. Department of Agriculture monthly Cattle-On-Feed report showed ranchers in October placed the highest number […]

By Theopolis Waters

U.S livestock: CME live cattle futures ease before USDA report

Nov. 17, 2017 at 4:48 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters – Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures finished the week with losses as investors tweaked positions ahead of the U.S. Department of Agriculture monthly Cattle-On-Feed report at 2 p.m. CST (2000 GMT), said traders. Analysts, on average, expect the report to show 7.7 percent more cattle were […]

By Theopolis Waters

U.S. livestock: Cattle, hog futures mixed on spreading, cash declines

Nov. 9, 2017 at 7:43 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters – U.S. livestock futures were widely mixed on Thursday, with nearby live cattle and lean hog contracts hitting multi-week lows in bear-spreading as traders moved into deferred positions. Worries of weaker prices in cash markets for cattle and hogs further weighed on front-month contracts while the third […]

By Michael Hirtzer