Insights and Stories on Cattle Futures

U.S. livestock: Hogs top five-week high on China demand expectations

Jul. 19, 2019 at 4:45 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) lean hog futures reached their highest prices in more than five weeks on Friday on expectations for increased pork demand from China, the world’s top importer. Live cattle futures ended higher after dropping to their lowest prices in more than a week. […]

U.S. livestock: Hogs rise amid hopes of China pork demand

Jul. 18, 2019 at 8:02 pm CDT

By Tom Polansek

U.S. livestock: Hogs near limit up on renewed pork export hopes

Jul. 17, 2019 at 6:51 pm CDT

By Tom Polansek

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures weaken as beef prices decline

Jul. 16, 2019 at 5:56 pm CDT

By Tom Polansek

Klassen: Feeder market experiences fortuitous bounce

Jul. 16, 2019 at 8:53 am CDT

By Jerry Klassen

U.S. livestock: Live cattle sag as traders eye lower boxed-beef prices

Jul. 15, 2019 at 5:17 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) live cattle futures ended mostly lower on Monday as weak boxed beef prices fueled concerns about increasing supplies. Select-grade boxed beef was $189.21/cwt on Monday afternoon, down 2.7 per cent from a week ago, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture data issued […]

By Tom Polansek

U.S. livestock: CME hogs book biggest one-week climb since April

Jul. 12, 2019 at 5:54 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) lean hog futures closed higher on Friday and the most-active August contract recorded its biggest weekly gain since April, supported by expectations of thinning U.S. hog supplies, traders said. A glut of hogs has hung over the futures market for months, but […]

By Julie Ingwersen

U.S. livestock: Lean hogs end lower

Jul. 11, 2019 at 7:19 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) lean hog futures fell about three per cent on Thursday on sluggish cash markets, traders said, retreating after a two-session surge that lifted the August contract to a near-three-week high a day earlier. CME August lean hogs settled down 2.55 cents at […]

By Julie Ingwersen

U.S. livestock: Hogs up on technical buying, cash values

Jul. 10, 2019 at 7:00 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) lean hog futures neared a three-week high on Wednesday, buoyed by a mix of technical buying and ideas that a glut of U.S. hog supplies was showing signs of tightening, traders said. Fears of an expansion in Asia of the African swine […]

By Julie Ingwersen

Klassen: Feeder market softens on limited volumes

Jul. 10, 2019 at 1:56 pm CDT

Compared to last week, western Canadian feeder cattle prices were steady to $3 lower on average. Many auction barns were on holidays last week. Auctions that did hold sales had limited numbers on offer. The feeder market remains under pressure due to negative feeding margins, firm feed grain values and […]

By Jerry Klassen