Insights and Stories on Livestock

Computer vision system weighs pigs without a scale

Nov. 29, 2024 at 10:40 am CST

Glacier FarmMedia – The three metal-framed stations in the pig barn conjure the image of a starting gate at the Kentucky Derby. A pen opens. For a minute, the air is full of galloping hoofs and excited grunts. Twenty pigs run through three short aisles equipped with lights and cameras, […]

Mexico hopes to quickly resolve New World Screwworm case halting cattle exports into US

Nov. 28, 2024 at 9:58 am CST

By Geralyn Wichers Lizbeth Diaz Sarah Morland

Feed Grain Weekly: Corn prices drop, barley favoured

Nov. 28, 2024 at 9:34 am CST

By Adam Peleshaty

Klassen: Upward momentum continues for feeder cattle prices

Nov. 26, 2024 at 7:42 am CST

By Jerry Klassen

US suspends Mexican cattle imports after New World screwworm case

Nov. 25, 2024 at 11:36 am CST

By Reuters

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U.S. livestock: CME cattle futures rise on cash trade, positioning ahead of USDA report

Nov. 22, 2024 at 5:16 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters – Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures firmed on Friday as cash market trading gathered steam at firm prices, according to analysts, and traders awaited the results of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Cattle on Feed report, which the agency released after the close. Feeder cattle gained for […]

By Renee Hickman

Serotonin may be key to solving pneumonia puzzle in cattle

Nov. 22, 2024 at 9:37 am CST

Glacier FarmMedia – Pen riders move through the feedlot corrals on horseback, watching the cattle with a sharp eye. They are looking for illness, weaving through the herd day after day. They hear the animal with atypical interstitial pneumonia (AIP) before they see it. There’s a rattle in the heifer’s […]

By Melissa Jeffers-Bezan

Feed Grain Weekly: Prices ‘percolating sideways’

Nov. 21, 2024 at 4:19 pm CST

As winter conditions descended on Alberta, prices for feed grains bumped up a little, but were otherwise "percolating sideways," stated Jim Beusekom of Market Place Commodities in Lethbridge.

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

Klassen: Feeder market climbs another step

Nov. 19, 2024 at 10:53 am CST

For the week ending November 16, Western Canadian calves over 650 pounds were up $3-$6/cwt compared to seven days earlier. Calves under 650 pounds traded $4/cwt to as much as $10/cwt higher.

By Jerry Klassen

McDonald’s to pay U.S. farmers for feed efficient Enogen corn use

Nov. 15, 2024 at 12:11 pm CST

A partnership between McDonald’s and Syngenta in the United States will pay beef producers to use Enogen corn, which will improve the feed efficiency of cattle and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

By John Greig