Insights and Stories on Livestock

U.S. livestock: Lean hogs up on new swine fever outbreak in China

Mar. 3, 2021 at 6:37 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange lean hog futures jumped on Wednesday as China reported a new outbreak of a deadly pig disease, raising expectations that Chinese importers could increase U.S. purchases. China’s farm ministry confirmed African swine fever in piglets being illegally transported through Funing county in the […]

Second activist investor buys into Elanco

Mar. 3, 2021 at 5:36 pm CST

By Reuters

U.S. livestock: Lean hogs down off recent gains

Mar. 2, 2021 at 7:12 pm CST

By Tom Polansek

Klassen: Steady demand supports feeder cattle prices

Mar. 2, 2021 at 11:50 am CST

By Jerry Klassen

Canada’s year-end cattle herd continues shrinking

Mar. 1, 2021 at 8:21 pm CST

By Dave Bedard

U.S. livestock: Live cattle hit five-week low

Mar. 1, 2021 at 6:19 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — Technical selling on Monday drove Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures to their lowest prices in more than five weeks, while lean hog futures recovered from a sell-off. The cattle market’s losses brought the most-active April contract down six per cent from a life-of-contract high reached […]

By Tom Polansek

Beef cattle sector weighs in for federal food processing study

Feb. 28, 2021 at 12:28 am CST

The House of Commons’ standing committee on agriculture will soon be wrapping up its study into Canada’s processing capacity. Since November, MPs have heard from more than 50 witnesses on the matter — including representatives from the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association, whose president Bob Lowe and executive vice-president Dennis Laycraft testified […]

By D.C. Fraser

Spanish report calls for cull of over 850 cattle on pariah ship

Feb. 26, 2021 at 5:50 pm CST

Cartagena | Reuters — More than 850 cows that spent months aboard a ship wandering across the Mediterranean are not fit for transport anymore and should be killed, according to a confidential report by Spanish government veterinarians seen by Reuters. The cows were kept in what an animal rights activist […]

By Marco Trujillo Nathan Allen

Risk of human spread of H5N8 bird flu deemed low

Feb. 26, 2021 at 4:43 pm CST

Geneva | Reuters — The risk of human-to-human spread of the H5N8 strain of bird flu appears low after it was identified for the first time worldwide in farm workers in Russia, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday. A separate influenza strain, H1N1, that emerged from pigs and […]

By stephanie-nebehay

U.S. livestock: Hog futures drop on end-of-month profit taking

Feb. 26, 2021 at 4:20 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. hog futures dropped 2.9 per cent on Friday, with traders locking in profits from the rally on the last session of February. The loss, which pulled the market from the nearly two-year high hit on Thursday, was the biggest for hogs in percentage terms since […]

By Mark Weinraub