Insights and Stories on Cattle Futures

U.S. livestock: Cattle, hogs gain on pre-holiday technical buying

Jul. 3, 2018 at 5:45 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange livestock futures were mostly higher on Tuesday, with some hog and cattle contracts hitting multi-month peaks on technical buying ahead of Wednesday’s U.S. Independence Day holiday, traders and analysts said. CME July lean hog futures climbed to their highest since Feb. 26, settling […]

U.S. livestock: Feeder cattle jump as corn prices drop

Jul. 2, 2018 at 5:13 pm CDT

By Michael Hirtzer

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures limit up on better cash sales

Jun. 29, 2018 at 8:17 pm CDT

By Michael Hirtzer

U.S. livestock: Hog futures higher on spreading

Jun. 28, 2018 at 7:58 pm CDT

By Michael Hirtzer

U.S. livestock: Early-week cash prices buoy CME live cattle

Jun. 27, 2018 at 6:18 pm CDT

By Reuters

Klassen: Weaker barley prices enhance yearling prices

Jun. 26, 2018 at 8:08 pm CDT

Compared to last week, yearlings traded $3 to as much as $8 higher, with strong buying interest noted from Lethbridge-area feedlots. Supplies of quality feeders are rather snug at this time of year and buyers were extremely aggressive on local packages. Prices in the non-major feeding areas appeared to lag […]

By Jerry Klassen

U.S. livestock: CME hogs bounce back on bargain buying

Jun. 26, 2018 at 6:09 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange hog futures finished higher on Tuesday after short-covering and bargain buying reversed recent market losses amid trade fears, analysts said. Hog farmers in the U.S. may face another wave of higher tariffs by China, which placed stiff retaliatory duties on U.S. pork imports […]

By Reuters

U.S. livestock: Hogs sink on weak cash markets, packer margins

Jun. 23, 2018 at 2:05 am CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange lean hog futures settled mostly lower on Friday as falling cash hog prices and poor packer margins weighed on the market, traders said. Worries over slowed pork export demand due to threatened retaliatory tariffs by key trading partners, including Mexico and China, also […]

By Karl Plume

U.S. feedlots draw more cattle than expected in May

Jun. 23, 2018 at 2:01 am CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Ranchers in May drove more cattle into U.S. feedlots than anticipated compared with the same period a year ago, said analysts after Friday’s U.S. Department of Agriculture monthly Cattle on Feed report. The data also showed the June 1 feedlot cattle supply climbed 4.1 per cent […]

By Theopolis Waters

U.S. livestock: Bargain buying pares some CME hogs’ losses

Jun. 21, 2018 at 3:29 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange hog futures closed moderately higher on Thursday, with support from bargain buying and short-covering that pared some recent market losses amid U.S. trade worries, said analysts. U.S. hog farmers, still reeling from higher retaliatory tariffs on pork imposed by China in early April, […]

By Reuters