Insights and Stories on Feeder Cattle

Jan. 6, 2015 at 3:59 am CST

Auction markets across Western Canada will start off the New Year with fairly strong momentum. Newton’s first law of physics states that an object in motion will stay in motion until acted upon by an opposite force. U.S. fed cattle prices staged a miraculous recovery last week and it now […]

By Jerry Klassen

Dec. 29, 2014 at 5:55 pm CST

Western Canadian feeder cattle markets have ended the year on a mixed tone with most auction barns closed for the holiday season. Alberta packers were buying limited volumes of fed steers at $178 per hundredweight (cwt), down from highs of $183 earlier in December. The uncertainty over feedlot margins for […]

By Jerry Klassen

Dec. 23, 2014 at 2:31 pm CST

Chicago / Reuters – Chicago Mercantile Exchange lean hogs closed higher on Tuesday on short-covering ahead of the Christmas holiday and before the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s quarterly hog report at 2 p.m. CST (2000 GMT), traders said. Analysts expect the report, which will be released while Globex hog futures […]

By Theopolis Waters

Nov. 3, 2014 at 9:13 am CST

Western Canadian feeder cattle prices reflected a mixed tone over the past week with values $3 to $5 higher on vaccinated preconditioned calves; unvaccinated calves just off their mothers were $3/cwt to as much as $10/cwt lower in some cases. Yearling prices were also quite variable by as much as […]

By Jerry Klassen