Insights and Stories on Livestock

U.S. livestock: CME live cattle firm on strong cash trade

Sep. 20, 2022 at 6:24 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle strengthened on Tuesday, underpinned by strong cash markets and tight supplies of market-ready cattle, though recession fears limit gains, traders said. “We saw some pretty strong cash trade in the western corn belt yesterday,” said Alan Brugler, president of Brugler Marketing. […]

Klassen: Weaker Canadian dollar supports feeder market

Sep. 20, 2022 at 9:32 am CDT

By Jerry Klassen

U.S. livestock: CME live cattle mixed

Sep. 19, 2022 at 6:37 pm CDT

By Christopher Walljasper

Avian flu returns to southwestern Ontario

Sep. 19, 2022 at 1:58 pm CDT

By Dave Bedard

Manitoba pork industry grows despite ‘uncertainty’

Sep. 16, 2022 at 8:54 pm CDT

By Adam Peleshaty

U.S. livestock: CME lean hogs end firmer, live cattle stumble

Sep. 16, 2022 at 6:40 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange lean hog futures ended higher on Friday as the market moved up toward cash prices, analysts said. October lean hogs closed 0.85 cent stronger at 96.9 cents/lb. (all figures US$). The contract earlier in the session rose to 96.925 cents, its highest price […]

By Tom Polansek

U.S. livestock: December lean hogs hit four-week high

Sep. 15, 2022 at 5:41 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange lean hog futures touched a four-week high on Thursday on technical buying and concerns about tightening supplies, analysts said. Demand from pork processors helped underpin futures as packers’ profit margins improved, a broker said. Margins were estimated to be $2.45 per hog, up […]

By Tom Polansek

Avian flu circles back in Western Canada

Sep. 15, 2022 at 2:05 pm CDT

A relatively quiet summer for highly pathogenic avian influenza in Canada has turned for the worse, with outbreaks on commercial poultry farms in all four western provinces in the past week alone. Cases of high-path avian flu in domestic birds in Canada confirmed and reported by the Canadian Food Inspection […]

By Dave Bedard

U.S. livestock: Hog futures fall

Sep. 14, 2022 at 5:10 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. hog futures fell on Wednesday, turning lower on a round of profit-taking after the most-active December contract hit its highest in more than three weeks early in the trading session. Cattle futures were mixed, with live cattle contracts easing for the second day in a […]

By Reuters

Ontario halal processor to buy poultry packing capacity

Sep. 14, 2022 at 4:43 pm CDT

An Ontario meat processor specializing in the halal market has a deal in place to boost its capacity by buying a nearby chicken and specialty fowl packer. Amir Quality Meats, which operates a federally registered HACCP-certified boning and cutting plant at Brampton, has an agreement in place to buy the […]

By Dave Bedard