Insights and Stories on Livestock

U.S. livestock: CME cattle, hogs sink on profit-taking

Feb. 24, 2022 at 5:50 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange livestock futures tumbled on Thursday as profit-taking and long liquidation pressured prices following recent gains, analysts said. Lean hog futures pulled back from contract highs reached on Wednesday as traders monitored swings in the stock market after Russia invaded Ukraine. CME April hog […]

U.S. livestock: Lean hogs tumble on profit-taking

Feb. 23, 2022 at 5:24 pm CST

By Karl Plume

U.S. livestock: Lean hogs rise again on tight supplies

Feb. 22, 2022 at 7:04 pm CST

By Karl Plume

Klassen: Weather factors influence calf prices

Feb. 22, 2022 at 3:10 am CST

By Jerry Klassen

U.S. livestock: Hog futures extend rally to six days

Feb. 18, 2022 at 5:55 pm CST

By Reuters

Preparing for African Swine Fever

Feb. 18, 2022 at 9:23 am CST

African Swine Fever (ASF) has now been reported in 24 countries since first found in several Chinese locations in 2018. “This is very alarming,” Christa Arsenault, national ASF coordinator with Animal Health Canada, told delegates at the Banff Pork Seminar last month. “ASF was considered to be a relatively stable […]

By Kristy Nudds

U.S. livestock: Hog futures hit six-month high on strong cash markets

Feb. 17, 2022 at 4:51 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange hog futures rose 2.1 per cent on Thursday, with the front-month contract hitting its highest in six months on strength in the cash market, traders said. April lean hog futures gained 2.175 cents, to 107.575 cents/lb., hitting a new contract high and briefly […]

By Reuters

U.S. livestock: Hog futures firm, cattle mixed

Feb. 16, 2022 at 5:31 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange hog futures firmed on Wednesday, with concerns about processing margins seen limiting supplies in the coming months. “High feed costs and low prices there have production margins as poor as they’ve been in at least eight years,” brokerage StoneX said in a note […]

By Christopher Walljasper

U.S. livestock: CME lean hogs climb as tight supplies persist

Feb. 15, 2022 at 8:12 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange lean hog futures climbed on Tuesday, supported by persistent tight supplies of market-ready hogs, analysts said. “We know numbers are getting tighter. We haven’t generated the expansion we needed to over the last six to nine months,” said Matthew Wiegand, Risk Management Consultant […]

By Christopher Walljasper

Manitoba border blockade expected to end Wednesday

Feb. 15, 2022 at 7:50 pm CST

Another protest blockade of a key Canada-U.S. trade corridor is expected to wrap up by Wednesday. Manitoba RCMP on Tuesday reported they “are now confident that a resolution has been reached” with protestors who, since Thursday, have blockaded Highway 75 leading to the border crossing at Emerson, Man., about 100 […]

By Dave Bedard