Insights and Stories on Cattle

U.S. livestock: Nearby lean hogs drop on continued herd expansion

Jun. 28, 2019 at 7:32 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) lean hog futures were mixed on Friday, with nearby contracts pressured by plentiful supplies of hogs and pork and deferred months buoyed by signs of a slowing multi-year U.S. hog herd expansion, traders said. Actively traded nearby contracts posted steep declines after […]

U.S. livestock: Hogs up before USDA confirms herd expansion

Jun. 27, 2019 at 6:26 pm CDT

By Karl Plume

Rain gives farmers relief, for now, from three-year drought

Jun. 25, 2019 at 3:56 pm CDT

By Rod Nickel

Klassen: Fed cattle bounce supports yearling market

Jun. 25, 2019 at 10:43 am CDT

By Jerry Klassen

U.S. livestock: Hog futures limit down on supply glut

Jun. 21, 2019 at 6:20 pm CDT

By Tom Polansek

U.S. farmers face devastation following Midwest floods

Mar. 20, 2019 at 8:15 pm CDT

Winslow, Neb./Chicago | Reuters — Midwestern farmers have been gambling they could ride out the U.S.-China trade war by storing their corn and soybeans anywhere they could — in bins, plastic tubes, in barns or even outside. Now, the unthinkable has happened. Record floods have devastated a wide swath of […]

By Humeyra Pamuk P.J. Huffstutter Tom Polansek

Livestock, pets among victims in U.S. Midwest flooding

Mar. 19, 2019 at 7:21 pm CDT

Reuters — The floods that have devastated large swaths of Nebraska and Iowa since late last week left house pets homeless, inflicted an unknown toll on livestock and led to several daring water rescues of animals from dogs to horses. Rescuers in the Omaha area, where the Platte, Elkhorn and […]

By Peter Szekely

U.S. farm belt slammed by floods, heavy snow from bomb cyclone

Mar. 18, 2019 at 5:56 am CDT

Reuters — A harsh late-winter storm broadsided a vast swath of the U.S. agriculture industry this week as heavy snow closed roads and buried cattle in the Plains while excessive rain flooded Midwest fields and swamped grain elevators. A “bomb cyclone” hurled hurricane-force winds, sparked tornadoes and dumped heavy snow […]

By Karl Plume

Feed weekly outlook: Prairie prices on the rise

Mar. 7, 2019 at 12:17 pm CST

MarketsFarm — Feed grain prices have been on the upswing recently, according to Nelson Neumann of Agfinity at Stony Plain, Alta. “We saw them at the end of last week, the beginning of this week, really jump up. Guys were scrambling to get stuff in before road bans,” he said. […]

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

‘Tinder for cows’ matches livestock in mood for love

Feb. 13, 2019 at 1:48 pm CST

Petersfield, England | Reuters — A Tinder-inspired app is helping farmers match up potential partners for their cattle. Called “Tudder” — a mix of dating app Tinder and udder — it lets farmers swipe right on cattle they like the look of. They are then directed to a page on […]

By Matthew Stock