Insights and Stories on Feeding

U.S. livestock: CME hog, cattle futures decline

Oct. 16, 2023 at 7:11 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange livestock markets weakened on Monday, with lean hog futures nearing their lowest price in more than four months. Concerns about lacklustre demand for U.S. pork continued to hang over the market, analysts said. Seasonally, hog futures also tend to decline around this time […]

Saskatchewan ranchers backed for runoff control

Jul. 13, 2021 at 5:21 pm CDT

By Dave Bedard

Flea beetles a nuisance for canola crop

Jun. 18, 2021 at 8:20 pm CDT

By Adam Peleshaty

Alberta hog farmers to get set-aside via AgriRecovery

Mar. 5, 2021 at 9:27 pm CST

By Dave Bedard

AgriRecovery in place for farms in B.C. wildfire zones

Sep. 6, 2017 at 7:09 pm CDT

By Staff

Major Alberta cattle feeder set to shut feedlots

Sep. 21, 2016 at 2:59 pm CDT

Reuters — One of Canada’s biggest cattle feeding operations, Western Feedlots, said Wednesday it will close feeding operations after marketing the cattle it currently owns, due to poor market conditions. Closure of Western’s feeding operations, likely early in 2017 once its current cattle are sold, will make it more difficult […]

By Rod Nickel