Insights and Stories on Livestock

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures strong

Feb. 28, 2023 at 4:41 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures ended firm on Tuesday, with the front-month contract hitting its highest in more than eight years as tight supplies continued to underpin the market. Hog futures ended mixed. Expectations for strong cash prices for the next few months due to […]

Klassen: Calves jump on corn outlook

Feb. 28, 2023 at 6:09 am CST

By Jerry Klassen

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures dip on profit-taking

Feb. 27, 2023 at 6:47 pm CST

By Mark Weinraub

U.S. livestock: CME live cattle consolidate after hitting new contract high

Feb. 24, 2023 at 7:05 pm CST

By Tom Polansek

Investment in balanced nutrition boosts long-term herd productivity

Feb. 24, 2023 at 9:35 am CST

By Diana Martin

Flu experts gather with H5N1 risk on the agenda

Feb. 24, 2023 at 2:14 am CST

London | Reuters — The world’s leading experts on influenza met this week to discuss the threat posed to humans by a strain of H5N1 avian flu that has caused record numbers of bird deaths around the world in recent months. The group of scientists, regulators and vaccine manufacturers meets […]

By Jennifer Rigby

Sollio books deeper loss for 2022

Feb. 24, 2023 at 1:49 am CST

Domestic and international market-moving events have dragged hard on the year-end bottom line for Sollio Cooperative Group, particularly in its fresh pork business. Quebec-based Sollio — which operates the ag input and farm service business Sollio Agriculture, meat packer Olymel and hardware retailer BMR — on Thursday reported full-year revenues […]

By Dave Bedard

U.S. livestock: CME cattle set high on Brazil halting beef exports to China

Feb. 23, 2023 at 5:19 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures reached a contract high on Thursday amid hopes that Chinese importers will buy more U.S. beef after rival supplier Brazil suspended shipments to China, analysts said. Brazil said it would halt beef exports to China, the main destination for its […]

By Tom Polansek

U.S. livestock: CME hog futures sag as pork prices retreat

Feb. 22, 2023 at 7:30 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange lean hog futures closed lower on Wednesday, retreating from six-week highs set a day earlier as wholesale pork prices backed down after spiking higher early in the week. Live cattle futures closed mixed, underpinned by surging beef prices. At the CME, April hogs […]

By Julie Ingwersen

Brazil to halt beef exports to China after BSE case

Feb. 22, 2023 at 7:16 pm CST

Sao Paulo | Reuters — Brazil’s beef exports to China will be halted starting Thursday after a case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) was confirmed in the northern state of Para, the country’s agriculture and livestock ministry said on Wednesday. The suspension is part of an animal health pact previously […]

By Reuters