Insights and Stories on Livestock

Dairy cattle traceability system switched on

Oct. 5, 2020 at 8:31 pm CDT

Lactanet Canada’s centralized national system for management of dairy cattle traceability data has formally been plugged in. Guelph-based dairy herd management service provider Lactanet on Monday launched DairyTrace, which it says will operate alongside the traceability module of Dairy Farmers of Canada’s proAction initiative in providing “state-of-the-art traceback capabilities in […]

U.S. livestock: Cattle, hog futures rise on strong cash markets

Oct. 5, 2020 at 5:29 pm CDT

By Tom Polansek

Ontario meat processor buys into poultry slaughter

Oct. 2, 2020 at 10:43 pm CDT

By Dave Bedard

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures sag on fears for economy, beef demand

Oct. 2, 2020 at 6:10 pm CDT

By Julie Ingwersen

Connecting farms, facts and feelings through storytelling

Oct. 2, 2020 at 9:18 am CDT

By Tara Mulhern Davidson

U.S. livestock: Nearby cattle futures lower on profit-taking

Oct. 1, 2020 at 6:59 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. live cattle futures closed mixed on Thursday with nearby contracts drifting lower on profit-taking a day after the benchmark December contract touched a six-week high, analysts said. Commodity funds hold a net long position in Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) live cattle futures, leaving the market […]

By Julie Ingwersen

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures slip as feed grain prices soar

Sep. 30, 2020 at 6:01 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. live cattle futures retreated on Wednesday after the December contract hit its highest price in more than a month, while feeder cattle futures slumped as prices surged for grain used as animal feed. The rally in U.S. grain futures prices hung over cattle markets because […]

By Tom Polansek

U.S. livestock: Cattle up on beef demand, cash market optimism

Sep. 29, 2020 at 6:55 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. live cattle futures rose on Tuesday, with the December contract reaching its highest in a month on signs of strong demand for beef and expectations of firm cash cattle trade this week, analysts said. Also, commodity funds appeared to be adjusting positions ahead of the […]

By Julie Ingwersen

Klassen: Stronger barley prices weigh on feeder market

Sep. 28, 2020 at 8:57 pm CDT

Compared to last week, western Canadian yearling prices were steady to $2 lower; calves weighing 500 to 650 lbs. traded $2-$4 lower while lighter weights under 500 lbs. were steady to $5 higher. There is a distinct price structure for each weight category, depending on the time frame for the […]

By Jerry Klassen

Olymel to ramp up processing at Quebec poultry plant

Sep. 28, 2020 at 8:31 pm CDT

Olymel plans to bring more of its poultry further-processing in-house with a $31.5 million expansion at one of its major slaughter and cutting plants in Quebec’s Monteregie. The meat packing arm of Quebec’s Sollio Co-operative Group announced Monday it had started work that day on a 35,200-square foot plant expansion […]

By Dave Bedard