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U.S. livestock: Cattle choppy amid weak cash market, tight supply

Oct. 1, 2025 at 4:34 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters – Chicago Mercantile Exchange cattle futures traded both sides of unchanged on Wednesday as mixed-to-weaker cash markets and a continued tight supply of cattle buffeted futures, analysts said. Industry experts said the U.S.-Mexico border is likely to be closed to cattle imports for the foreseeable future as […]

Chicago, Illinois, USA - March 28, 2022: Chicago Board of Trade office in Chicago. The Chicago Board of Trade is one of the world's oldest futures and options exchanges.

U.S. grains: Chicago grains, soy rebound after Trump announces meeting with Xi

Oct. 1, 2025 at 3:08 pm CDT

By Heather Schlitz Reuters

Larvae of the screwworm fly, collected from infected cows, are observed at the COPEG sterile fly production plant, which fights the spread of the cattle screwworm, in Pacora, Panama, June 11, 2025. REUTERS/Enea Lebrun/File Photo

Mexico sees 32 per cent jump in flesh-eating screwworm cases since August as cases move north

Oct. 1, 2025 at 2:06 pm CDT

By Cassandra Garrison Reuters

U.S. grains: Soybeans, corn fall on harvest pressure

Sep. 29, 2025 at 4:34 pm CDT

By Heather Schlitz Julie Ingwersen Reuters

U.S. livestock: Hog futures slide in technical correction

Sep. 29, 2025 at 4:28 pm CDT

By Heather Schlitz Reuters

Black Angus cattle stand in the snow in Alberta. PHOTO: Lisa Guenther

Under Trump, U.S. cedes its share of China’s beef market to Australia

Sep. 29, 2025 at 9:58 am CDT

Australian beef has replaced U.S. supply in China since President Donald Trump returned to the White House.

By Peter Hobson Reuters Tom Polansek

A group of cattle in an Alberta feedlot in the summer.

U.S. livestock: Hog futures hit contract highs on shock herd decline

Sep. 26, 2025 at 4:35 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters – Lean hog futures stormed to contract highs at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange on Friday as smaller-than-expected U.S. inventory numbers stoked concerns about supplies, analysts said. The nation’s inventory on September 1 was 74.5 million head, down 1.3 per cent from a year earlier, the U.S. Department […]

By Reuters Tom Polansek

U.S. grains: Soy futures end up but notch weekly loss after China buys Argentina crops

Sep. 26, 2025 at 3:21 pm CDT

Chicago Board of Trade soybean futures finished slightly higher on Friday but posted a second weekly loss after China made large purchases of Argentine cargoes this week, snubbing U.S. supplies.

By Reuters

Black Angus breed cattle in a feedlot or feed yard.

U.S. criticizes Mexico’s handling of screwworm near border

Sep. 26, 2025 at 9:50 am CDT

U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins on Thursday said Mexico has not adequately enacted protocols to curb the spread of New World screwworm.