Insights and Stories on Livestock

Bird flu spurs diner chain Waffle House to add 50-cent fee per egg

Feb. 4, 2025 at 3:35 pm CST

U.S. diner chain Waffle House has added a 50-cent surcharge for every egg in a customer's order, the company said in a statement posted in its restaurants on Monday.

U.S. livestock: Cattle continue downward, hogs turnaround

Feb. 4, 2025 at 3:25 pm CST

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

Klassen: Western Canadian feeder markets set fresh high amid tariff threat

Feb. 4, 2025 at 11:12 am CST

By Jerry Klassen

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures pull back to start February

Feb. 3, 2025 at 3:07 pm CST

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

Tyson lifts 2025 sales forecast, prepares for tariff impacts

Feb. 3, 2025 at 11:25 am CST

By Heather Schlitz Neil J. Kanatt Reuters Tom Polansek

cattle and a barbed wire fence at sunset

US will allow Mexican beef imports to resume, says Mexican minister

Feb. 1, 2025 at 1:37 pm CST

The United States will permit Mexican beef imports to resume after signing memorandums to lift a temporary suspension, Mexico's agriculture chief wrote in a post on social media site X on Saturday.

By Reuters

Threat of tariffs looms at Saskatchewan Beef Industry Conference

Jan. 30, 2025 at 5:37 pm CST

The Canadian Cattle Association says threatened 25 per cent tariffs would cut Canadian wholesale beef prices by 13 per cent, but effects would be tempered slightly by the low Canadian dollar.

By Melissa Jeffers-Bezan

Efficiency called key to reducing beef industry carbon footprint

Jan. 29, 2025 at 4:54 pm CST

Efficiency is key when it comes to reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the beef sector said Sarah Klopatek at the Saskatchewan Beef Industry Conference on January 29 in Saskatoon, Sask.

By Melissa Jeffers-Bezan

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures correct off highs

Jan. 29, 2025 at 2:49 pm CST

Live and fed cattle futures on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange backed away from their contract highs on Wednesday, as chart-based positioning weighed on values.

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

EU agencies track bird flu virus variants on increasing threat to humans

Jan. 29, 2025 at 10:45 am CST

Two European regulators said on Wednesday they were tracking variants of the bird flu virus due to the threat of the pathogen adapting to spread between humans and triggering future pandemics.

By Reuters