Insights and Stories on Live Cattle

U.S. livestock: Futures surge on technical buying as plants reopen

May. 6, 2020 at 4:34 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. cattle and hog futures rose on Wednesday amid a flurry of technical buying — with some live and feeder cattle futures surging to daily trading limits — as investors said they were keeping a close eye on signs of packing plants reopening in the wake […]

U.S. livestock: Cattle, hogs slide after three days of gains

May. 5, 2020 at 6:34 pm CDT

By Christopher Walljasper

U.S. livestock: Cattle, hog futures inch up as plants reopen

May. 4, 2020 at 5:16 pm CDT

By Christopher Walljasper P.J. Huffstutter

U.S. livestock: Cattle, hog futures climb with wholesale meat prices

May. 1, 2020 at 7:29 pm CDT

By Julie Ingwersen

U.S. livestock: Hogs climb on strong pork exports, wholesale prices

Apr. 30, 2020 at 7:21 pm CDT

By Julie Ingwersen

U.S. livestock: Hogs mostly lower as packing-plant woes persist

Apr. 29, 2020 at 7:39 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. lean hog futures closed mostly lower on Wednesday, setting back from a one-month high set a day earlier in the benchmark June contract as traders mulled the implications of a presidential order for U.S. meat packing plants to remain open, traders said. President Donald Trump […]

By Julie Ingwersen

U.S. livestock: Hogs pare gains as Trump plans order to keep meat plants open

Apr. 28, 2020 at 5:52 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. lean hog futures hit a four-week peak on Tuesday on worries about tightening pork supplies as the coronavirus shutters meat processing plants, but the market pared gains on news that U.S. President Donald Trump plans to order such sites to stay open. June lean hog […]

By Julie Ingwersen

U.S. livestock: Hogs limit up on fears of tightening supplies

Apr. 27, 2020 at 7:42 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. lean hog futures rose their daily limit on Monday on fears of tightening domestic pork supplies as the coronavirus pandemic forces slowdowns at slaughterhouses, analysts said. June lean hog futures on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange settled up the daily maximum of 3.75 cents at 55.275 […]

By Julie Ingwersen

U.S. livestock: Profit-taking, technical selling pressure hogs, live cattle

Apr. 24, 2020 at 7:21 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. hog and live cattle futures eased on Friday, with end-of-week profit-taking and technical selling pressuring the livestock markets, traders said. Strong consumer demand for pork underpinned the hog futures, which rose 17.4 per cent this week. “The pork product markets continue to scream higher and […]

By Mark Weinraub

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures weaken, hog contracts rise

Apr. 23, 2020 at 6:51 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — CME Group hog futures rose on Thursday while cattle futures eased as traders struggled to assess the long-term demand impacts of the global coronavirus pandemic. “For livestock, traders are still trying to figure out where to take this market given the uncertainty of meat demand for […]

By Mark Weinraub