Insights and Stories on Cattle

U.S. livestock: Cattle lower amid broad selling pressure

Apr. 21, 2025 at 3:33 pm CDT

Cattle futures on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange were lower on Monday, retreating from early gains as the livestock markets found themselves caught up in the broad weakness triggered by threats from United States President Donald Trump to remove Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell.

U.S. livestock: Prices push upward; boxed beef slips back

Apr. 11, 2025 at 3:04 pm CDT

By Glen Hallick

Black Angus breed cattle in a feedlot or feed yard.

U.S. livestock: Losses for cattle, upswing in hog prices

Apr. 10, 2025 at 3:15 pm CDT

By Glen Hallick

U.S. livestock: Closing higher after Trump announces tariff pause

Apr. 9, 2025 at 3:10 pm CDT

By Glen Hallick

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures mixed Tuesday

Mar. 18, 2025 at 3:25 pm CDT

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Drought may be new normal for beef cattle producers

Feb. 21, 2025 at 9:52 am CST

Glacier FarmMedia – The 2020s did come in with a roar, but not the kind people hoped for, as drought has plagued much of Western Canada since 2021. The pastures were dry across the Prairies, the grass brittle, more brown than green. Dugouts ran dry and in some areas, hay […]

By Melissa Jeffers-Bezan

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures mixed Wednesday

Feb. 12, 2025 at 2:53 pm CST

Cattle futures on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange were mixed Wednesday, with gains in the feeder market and a steady tone in the live cattle market as values retreated from earlier advances.

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

U.S. livestock: Cattle prices pull back

Feb. 7, 2025 at 2:59 pm CST

Live and fed cattle futures on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange were steady to lower on Friday, as the slaughter was behind pace.

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

U.S. livestock: Cattle mixed, hogs higher

Feb. 6, 2025 at 3:06 pm CST

Live and fed cattle futures on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange dropped back on Thursday, despite strong export sales. The United States Department of Agriculture reported export sales of 24,907 tonnes for the week ended Jan. 30. That’s up 23.5 per cent from the previous week and the most since August. […]

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

Klassen: Western Canadian feeder markets set fresh high amid tariff threat

Feb. 4, 2025 at 11:12 am CST

For the week ending February 1, Western Canadian feeder cattle markets traded steady to $8 per hundredweight higher compared to seven days earlier. In some cases, larger packages of quality genetics were up as much $15/cwt from the prior week.

By Jerry Klassen

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