Insights and Stories on Cattle

Hay-starved Prairies fertile ground for online scammers

Oct. 14, 2021 at 7:35 pm CDT

High demand, scarce supplies and rising prices for hay and other feeds due to this summer’s drought on the Prairies have made a market for online scammers, RCMP warn. The urgency driving such transactions may cause ranchers, farmers and farm workers to make purchases “without taking time to properly verify […]

U.S. livestock: Chicago cattle firm on export demand

Oct. 14, 2021 at 5:25 pm CDT

By P.J. Huffstutter

U.S. livestock: CME hogs near three-week low amid ample supply

Oct. 13, 2021 at 4:41 pm CDT

By Tom Polansek

U.S. livestock: CME live cattle down on raised beef production forecasts

Oct. 12, 2021 at 5:48 pm CDT

By Tom Polansek

U.S. livestock: CME cattle futures mixed

Oct. 11, 2021 at 8:00 pm CDT

By P.J. Huffstutter

U.S. livestock: Profit-taking knocks feeder cattle off high

Oct. 8, 2021 at 7:28 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange feeder cattle futures ended lower on Friday as profit-taking pressured the market after prices set a one-month high, traders said. The setback came after the most-active November contract had rallied more than six per cent from a four-month low set on Sept. 30. […]

By Tom Polansek

Feed weekly outlook: Shortages leading to price increases

Oct. 7, 2021 at 5:26 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Prices for feed grains are swinging higher because of shortages, according to Mike Fleischhauer of Eagle Commodities Ltd. in Lethbridge. “One thing we are sure of is we are running out of inventory, barley for sure, and we’re 11 months away from new crop,” he said. This year’s […]

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

Brazil’s JBS bought 301,000 cattle from ‘irregular’ farms in Amazon, audit finds

Oct. 7, 2021 at 4:12 pm CDT

Sao Paulo | Reuters — Nearly a third of the cattle bought by JBS SA in the Brazilian Amazon state of Para came from ranches with “irregularities” such as illegal deforestation, prosecutors found in a 2020 audit of the world’s largest meatpacker released on Thursday. In a presentation, federal prosecutors […]

By Ana Mano

U.S. livestock: CME cattle rally continues on steady cash market, technical buying

Oct. 7, 2021 at 4:01 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Technical buying and a steady cash market helped fuel Chicago Mercantile Exchange live and feeder cattle futures on Thursday, sending prices to multi-week highs and stretching the rally into a fourth trading session, traders said. Most-active November feeder cattle touched its highest price since Sept. 9 […]

By P.J. Huffstutter

U.S. livestock: Technical buying, solid beef demand boost CME cattle

Oct. 6, 2021 at 6:28 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Technical buying and solid demand for U.S. beef lifted Chicago Mercantile Exchange live and feeder cattle futures on Wednesday, traders said. The cattle markets continue to rebound from recent losses that were technically overdone, analysts said. Front-month CME October live cattle futures reached its highest price […]

By Tom Polansek