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More food companies aim to wrangle cattle emissions

Sep. 21, 2020 at 6:00 pm CDT

Winnipeg | Reuters — Looking to improve milk production, California farmer John Verwey turned to a Swiss-made feed additive designed to make a cow more efficient while reducing methane emissions from cattle burps. The more a cow belches, the more it spends energy that could be used instead for milk […]

U.S. livestock: Cattle, hog futures fall with other commodities

Sep. 21, 2020 at 5:13 pm CDT

By Reuters

U.S. livestock: CME cattle futures end up on firm cash trade

Sep. 18, 2020 at 8:03 pm CDT

By Julie Ingwersen

U.S. livestock: CME hogs up on another swine fever case in Germany

Sep. 17, 2020 at 6:28 pm CDT

By P.J. Huffstutter

U.S. livestock: CME hog futures fall as China’s hog herd rebounds

Sep. 16, 2020 at 3:59 pm CDT

By P.J. Huffstutter

Kraft Heinz to sell several cheese businesses to Lactalis

Sep. 16, 2020 at 3:10 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Kraft Heinz said on Tuesday that it will sell several of its cheese businesses to a U.S. affiliate of France’s Groupe Lactalis for US$3.2 billion. After weak sales results and several billion-dollar writedowns over the past two years, there has been market speculation about which categories […]

By Reuters

U.S. to remove tariffs on Canadian aluminum

Sep. 16, 2020 at 2:29 pm CDT

Washington/Ottawa | Reuters — The Trump administration said on Tuesday it will remove 10 per cent U.S. tariffs on raw Canadian aluminum as long as imports of the metal stay below levels that are expected to “normalize” over the next four months. In response, Canada dropped a threat to impose […]

By David Lawder David Ljunggren

U.S. livestock: Futures mixed on pork export questions, cattle supplies

Sep. 15, 2020 at 6:53 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. livestock futures had a mixed performance on Tuesday, as the supply of cattle being offered for sale continued to shrink and traders wrestled with uncertainty over pork export demand. An additional five cases of African swine fever (ASF) were initially found in dead wild boars […]

By P.J. Huffstutter

Klassen: Yearling market holding value

Sep. 15, 2020 at 3:40 am CDT

Compared to last week, western Canadian yearling prices were relatively unchanged while calves traded $3 higher to $3 lower on average. The yearling run is well underway and there was no shortage of buying interest. Finishing feedlots were very aggressive on quality packages coming fresh off grass. Once again, buyers […]

By Jerry Klassen

U.S.-bound truckload of Alberta beef disappears

Sep. 15, 2020 at 2:44 am CDT

A reefer truck loaded with over $230,000 in beef from the JBS plant at Brooks, Alta. is more than two weeks overdue and alleged to be travelling on “fraudulent documents,” RCMP say. Brooks RCMP said Monday they’re investigating after a transport truck that was subcontracted to haul a full load […]

By Dave Bedard