Insights and Stories on Beef

U.S. livestock: CME live cattle sink to new lows

Feb. 27, 2020 at 8:18 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange cattle futures ended mostly lower on Thursday, with several key contracts notching new contract lows on nagging worries about the spread of coronavirus and its impact on global economic growth and demand for beef. Commodity funds, which had recently built up a sizable […]

How JBS became collateral damage in a war between billionaires

Feb. 11, 2020 at 11:49 am CST

By Tatiana Bautzer

Chinese meat packing giant locks in JBS supply

Jan. 27, 2020 at 7:09 pm CST

By GFM Staff

Virus concerns add more uncertainty to cattle market

Jan. 27, 2020 at 6:18 pm CST

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Klassen: Large feedlot inventories lower feeder demand

Jan. 21, 2020 at 3:06 am CST

By Jerry Klassen

Organic feed market poised for significant growth

Jan. 16, 2020 at 1:27 pm CST

Research and Markets – The global organic feed market size is estimated at US$6.8 billion in 2019 and is projected to reach US$10.1 billion by 2025. As two of the largest producers of wheat, barley, and soybeans at the global level, Germany and France are projected to witness high growth […]

By OrganicBiz

Amended CUSMA pact includes anti-COOL clause

Jan. 4, 2020 at 2:40 am CST

The new Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA), a free trade deal set to replace NAFTA, includes language meant to block any future bids at a trade-disrupting country-of-origin labeling (COOL) law. The new clause would, in theory, checkmate a move made last summer by some Democrat members of the U.S. House of Representatives […]

By Dave Bedard

U.S. livestock: CME cattle, hogs relatively steady on trade deal hopes

Dec. 16, 2019 at 5:08 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. cattle futures remained relatively steady on Monday but funds continued to hold their long positions in anticipation of a surge of demand for U.S. meat after the U.S.-China “Phase 1” trade agreement is finalized, traders said. U.S. lean hog futures inched upward, rising for a […]

By P.J. Huffstutter

Farmers hit by trade disputes should be helped faster, Trudeau says

Dec. 13, 2019 at 7:19 pm CST

Ottawa | Reuters — Canada’s agriculture department should move more quickly to help farmers harmed by protectionist measures imposed by other nations, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Friday. Canadian farmers are caught up in a trade and diplomatic dispute between Ottawa and Beijing. In a formal letter of instruction to […]

By Reuters

Ryding-Regency’s federal beef packing licenses cancelled

Dec. 2, 2019 at 3:09 pm CST

Citing “false or misleading information” given them during an E. coli probe, food safety officials have now permanently pulled the federal slaughter, processing and export licenses for Toronto’s Ryding-Regency Meat Packers and related companies. The cancellation, announced Monday, indefinitely prolongs what was already described as “critical processing capacity shortage” for […]

By GFM Staff