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U.S. livestock: Short-covering boosts CME live, feeder cattle

Dec. 10, 2015 at 3:34 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters –– Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle contracts closed higher on Thursday, driven by short-covering that gradually gave way to this week’s lower cash prices and lacklustre wholesale beef demand, traders said. Spot December closed 1.7 cents/lb. higher at 121.55 cents, and February up 2.375 cents, to 126.525 […]

U.S. livestock: CME live, feeder cattle stampede to new lows

Dec. 9, 2015 at 3:27 pm CST

By Theopolis Waters

Disease-resistant pigs latest win for gene editing technology

Dec. 8, 2015 at 7:43 pm CST

By ben-hirschler

U.S. livestock: CME live cattle end mostly lower after rocky session

Dec. 8, 2015 at 4:09 pm CST

By Theopolis Waters

U.S. livestock: COOL news weighs on CME live cattle, hogs

Dec. 7, 2015 at 5:23 pm CST

By Theopolis Waters

WTO dials back Canada’s COOL retaliation

Dec. 7, 2015 at 2:17 pm CST

Canada will be able to take only about a third of the revenge it asked the World Trade Organization to authorize over the United States’ country-of-origin labelling (COOL) law. An arbitration panel of the WTO’s Dispute Settlement Body (DSB) ruled Monday that Canada and Mexico may now ask the DSB […]

By Dave Bedard

Maple Leaf to upgrade stunning process, ‘accelerate’ on sow housing

Dec. 5, 2015 at 3:35 pm CST

Pledging to upgrade its hog and poultry stunning processes, speed up its timeline on sow housing and step up its game on facility audits, livestock pain management and reduced antibiotic use, Maple Leaf Foods said Friday it’s now set to carve an animal care agenda into formal company policy. The […]

By Staff

U.S. livestock: Beef price retreat pares CME live cattle gains

Dec. 4, 2015 at 3:08 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters –– Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures on Friday finished in negative territory for a third day in a row after weak wholesale beef values erased initial short-covering gains, traders said. Spot December closed 1.425 cents lower at 124.275 cents/lb., and marked a new contract low of […]

By Theopolis Waters

U.S. livestock: CME live cattle fall again with cash prices

Dec. 3, 2015 at 3:51 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures posted significant losses on Thursday for a second straight session, with nearby contracts posting new lows, in response to weaker cash prices, traders said. Spot December closed 3.4 cents lower, at 125.7 cents/lb., and made a new low of 124.6 […]

By Theopolis Waters

U.S. livestock: Cattle fall most in two weeks on dry Plains forecast

Nov. 30, 2015 at 6:11 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters –– U.S. cattle futures fell as much as 2.5 per cent on Monday, with both live and feeder cattle contracts posting their largest daily declines in two weeks on ample supplies and expectations for improved weather in the southern Plains. Snow, ice and rains slowed movement of […]

By Michael Hirtzer