Insights and Stories on Cash Market

Klassen: Cash feeder market shrugs off lower futures

Apr. 29, 2019 at 9:53 pm CDT

This past week, Alberta packers were buying fed cattle in the range of $270-$274 on a dressed basis, up $2-$4 from seven days earlier. Strength in the fed cattle market spilt over into the feeder complex as feeding margins moved into positive territory for the first time this year. Compared […]

U.S. livestock: Live cattle mixed on profit-taking

Sep. 17, 2018 at 7:02 pm CDT

By Michael Hirtzer

U.S. grains: Wheat, corn weaken after strong start

Oct. 25, 2017 at 4:28 pm CDT

By Mark Weinraub

Hog profits disappear as U.S. futures crash

Sep. 14, 2016 at 4:38 pm CDT

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

U.S. farmers unlikely to book sales off the combine this fall

Sep. 9, 2015 at 8:09 pm CDT

By Mark Weinraub

Wheat basis muddied in Western Canada

Jan. 30, 2015 at 7:36 pm CST

CNS Canada — The difference between futures markets and cash markets for any exchange-traded commodities can usually be brought into focus by the basis — that is, except in Prairie wheat, where that focus has now gone fuzzy. Typically, a wide or narrow basis provides some indication of how representative […]