Insights and Stories on Livestock

Klassen: Demand surges for grass cattle

Apr. 11, 2023 at 6:03 am CDT

Compared to last week, western Canadian feeder cattle markets traded $3-$4 on either side of unchanged. Certain auction markets did not have sales due to the shortened holiday week. Adverse weather also shuttered some sales on Wednesday and Thursday in the eastern Prairie region. Southern Alberta feedlots are contending with […]

U.S. livestock: Sizzling cash cattle prices ignite rally in CME futures

Apr. 6, 2023 at 4:18 pm CDT

By Tom Polansek

U.S. livestock: CME cattle up on higher cash price expectations

Apr. 5, 2023 at 7:04 pm CDT

By Tom Polansek

Ontario domestic dog dies of avian flu

Apr. 5, 2023 at 4:06 pm CDT

By Dave Bedard

Another way to look at environmental metrics

Apr. 5, 2023 at 9:28 am CDT

By Diana Martin

U.S. livestock: CME cattle slide on profit-taking

Apr. 4, 2023 at 7:09 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Profit-taking pushed down Chicago Mercantile Exchange cattle futures on Tuesday, while front-month lean hog futures tumbled to another contract low. Losses on Wall Street helped set a negative tone for the markets, as live cattle futures pulled back from contract highs reached on Monday, traders said. […]

By Tom Polansek

McDonald’s reported laying off hundreds of corporate employees

Apr. 4, 2023 at 1:05 pm CDT

New York | Reuters — The number of corporate employees McDonald’s Corp. plans to lay off this week will tally in the “hundreds,” a source familiar with the burger chain’s thinking said on Monday, as the company moves forward with a previously announced restructuring. The fast-food company is closing its […]

By Hilary Russ Jessica DiNapoli

Klassen: Alberta fed cattle lead feeder market higher

Apr. 4, 2023 at 8:22 am CDT

Compared to last week, western Canadian yearling markets traded $3-$5 higher while calf prices advanced $1-$3 on average. Alberta packers were buying fed cattle on a dressed basis of $360/cwt last week, up $3-$10 from a week earlier. Using a 60 per cent grading, live prices would be equivalent to […]

By Jerry Klassen

U.S. livestock: CME live cattle down off highs on profit-taking

Apr. 3, 2023 at 7:12 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures slumped on Monday as profit-taking dragged prices down after the market set new contract highs, traders said. CME June live cattle ended down 0.9 cent at 161.225 cents/lb., after reaching a high of 162.525 cents/lb. (all figures US$). That exceeded […]

By Tom Polansek

Continuous tie-stall housing to be phased out in new dairy code of practice

Mar. 31, 2023 at 7:32 pm CDT

New guidelines for dairy cattle care will improve animal welfare while also potentially increasing farm productivity, Dairy Farmers of Canada says. “I think that we’ve come to a very solid revised code,” David Wiens, DFC’s vice-president, said in an interview. The National Farm Animal Care Council (NFACC) on Thursday released […]

By Geralyn Wichers