Insights and Stories on Hogs

U.S. groups suing FDA over ractopamine approvals

Nov. 7, 2014 at 2:24 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters –– A group of environmental and public health groups sued the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday, seeking to set aside the agency’s approvals for feed additives containing ractopamine that are used to boost the weight of cattle and pigs. The groups, in two related lawsuits […]

Ontario supports local pork branding program

Nov. 6, 2014 at 5:01 pm CST

By Staff

U.S. livestock: CME live cattle futures end lower on weaker cash trade; hogs edge up

Oct. 31, 2014 at 4:44 pm CDT

By Meredith Davis

Protein demand, fracking affecting grain prices

Oct. 30, 2014 at 10:22 am CDT

By Dave Sims

U.S. livestock: CME live cattle finish down, but off session lows

Oct. 29, 2014 at 3:32 pm CDT

By Theopolis Waters

U.S. livestock: CME lean hogs turn higher on short-covering

Oct. 28, 2014 at 3:26 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange lean hogs closed higher Tuesday, supported by short-covering and speculative buying after recent market losses, traders said. December finished 1.15 cents per pound higher at 90.2 cents, and February was up 1.075 cents at 89.3 cents (all figures US$). Fund buying surfaced after […]

By Theopolis Waters

CME to include electronic trades in livestock settlement prices

Oct. 27, 2014 at 7:00 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters –– CME Group will begin including electronic trades in the calculation of daily settlement prices for its live cattle, feeder cattle and lean hog contracts, the exchange said in a letter to its livestock customers Monday. The change, which is considered a blended settlement, will take effect […]

By Theopolis Waters

U.S. livestock: CME live cattle jump with beef prices

Oct. 27, 2014 at 4:17 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures settled higher on Monday, fueled by the rebound in wholesale beef prices that helped erase Friday’s market losses, traders said. October closed 1.3 cents per pound higher at 169.55 cents, and December was 0.925 cents higher at 167.825 cents (all […]

By Theopolis Waters

U.S. livestock: CME live cattle pare initial gains before USDA report

Oct. 24, 2014 at 2:17 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures settled lower on Friday, pressured by profit-taking ahead of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s monthly Cattle-On-Feed report, traders said. Most analysts expect Friday’s report at 2 p.m. CT to show placements of cattle in U.S. feedyards likely grew last month […]

By Theopolis Waters

U.S. livestock: Cash price record lifts CME live cattle to new high

Oct. 23, 2014 at 5:36 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters –– Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures touched a new high on Thursday in response to record-high prices for market-ready, or cash, cattle, traders said. Cash cattle in Texas and Kansas fetched $170 per hundredweight (cwt), up $6 from last week, and surpassed an all-time high of […]

By Theopolis Waters