Insights and Stories on Cold Storage

Wheat in Whitehorse: How climate change helps feed Canada’s remote regions

Mar. 23, 2020 at 8:34 am CDT

Winnipeg/Ottawa | Reuters — After failing to grow wheat in the Yukon territory 15 years ago, farmer Steve Mackenzie-Grieve gave it another shot in 2017. Thanks to longer summers, he has reaped three straight harvests. This spring he plans to sow canola on his family’s 450-acre farm near Whitehorse, a […]

U.S. livestock: CME live cattle end higher, gaining against hogs

Sep. 26, 2018 at 7:18 pm CDT

By Julie Ingwersen

U.S. livestock: CME lean hogs sag on uncertainty over trade talks

Aug. 22, 2018 at 7:15 pm CDT

By Reuters

Tariffs raise tough questions for pork industry

Apr. 6, 2018 at 11:45 pm CDT

By Dave Sims

U.S. livestock: Cattle rise on beef gains, fund buying

Jan. 24, 2018 at 6:34 pm CST

By Michael Hirtzer

U.S. feedlot cattle placements bigger than expected

Dec. 22, 2017 at 3:01 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — Ranchers drove 13.9 per cent more cattle into U.S. feedlots in November than the same time a year ago, the U.S. Department of Agriculture reported on Friday. The result exceeded the high end of the range of analysts’ forecasts, partly fueled by low feed prices in […]

By Theopolis Waters

U.S. livestock: CME live cattle rebound on cash, beef prices

Nov. 21, 2017 at 5:32 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures on Tuesday rallied from Monday’s losses, ignited by short-covering as investors digested initial cash prices and firmer wholesale beef values, said traders. Technical buying contributed to market advances along with unwinding of Monday’s short live cattle futures long hog spreads, […]

By Theopolis Waters

Canada untangles pork label rule for EU export

Oct. 27, 2017 at 7:38 pm CDT

A domestic technical obstacle has been cleared out of Canadian pork’s export path to the European Union, the Canadian Pork Council said Friday. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency last week made changes to its Manual of Procedures, which will allow pork packers to apply health mark labels after pork has […]

By Staff

U.S. livestock: Cattle limit down after bearish USDA report

Sep. 25, 2017 at 4:57 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange cattle futures tumbled about two per cent on Monday after government data on Friday showed bigger-than-expected placements of cattle on feed in August. Most-active CME December live cattle dropped by the daily price limit of three cents to finish at 114.425 cents per […]

By Michael Hirtzer

U.S. livestock: Cattle hit one-month high ahead of USDA data

Sep. 22, 2017 at 7:27 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. live cattle futures jumped to the highest levels in over a month on Friday, lifted by technical buying and expectations for bullish government supply data that was due after the close of trading. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Cattle on Feed report, however, was […]

By Michael Hirtzer

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