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Klassen: Bounce in fed cattle supports feeders

Dec. 28, 2015 at 8:26 pm CST

Feeder cattle prices ended the year on a soft tone, trading steady with week-ago levels. Most auction barns were in holiday mode, resulting in minimal sales across the Prairies. Christmas couldn’t come soon enough for feedlot operators and the bounce in the live cattle futures early in the week was […]

U.S. grains: Rain in Brazil’s forecasts dampens soy futures

Dec. 24, 2015 at 3:38 pm CST

By Tom Polansek

U.S. livestock: Strong beef prices lift CME live cattle again

Dec. 24, 2015 at 3:32 pm CST

By Theopolis Waters

U.S. hog herd slowly expands as farmer profit shrinks

Dec. 23, 2015 at 6:20 pm CST

By Theopolis Waters

U.S. livestock: CME live cattle surge with cash prices

Dec. 22, 2015 at 2:57 pm CST

By Theopolis Waters

U.S. Nov. feedlot cattle placements slump to record low

Dec. 18, 2015 at 8:48 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters –– Cattle movement into U.S. feedlots in November fell 11 per cent from a year ago to their lowest level since the government began compiling the data in 1996, a U.S. Department of Agriculture report showed on Friday. Analysts attributed last month’s much smaller-than-expected placements to deteriorating […]

By Theopolis Waters

USDA sees farmers boosting corn, cutting soy acreage

Dec. 11, 2015 at 8:04 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — The U.S. Agriculture Department on Friday forecast that U.S. farmers will raise corn plantings and cut back on soybean acreage in the 2016-17 marketing year. USDA’s Office of the Chief Economist estimated that farmers would seed 90.5 million acres of corn during the spring, 2.1 million more […]

By Reuters

CBOT weekly outlook: Soy, corn hold in trading range

Dec. 9, 2015 at 4:15 pm CST

CNS Canada — Supply and demand estimates from the U.S. Department of Agriculture held few surprises and had only limited effects on Chicago Board of Trade corn and soybeans — both rangebound in the short term, according to one U.S.-based analyst. “That report was pretty non-eventful right now,” said Scott […]

By Jade Markus

U.S. grains: Wheat rises on weaker dollar, stocks check corn

Dec. 9, 2015 at 2:35 pm CST

Reuters — Chicago wheat futures rose on Wednesday, as short-covering and a weaker U.S. dollar buoyed prices after a two-day slide, while a U.S. government report held corn in check. Corn eked out only a tiny gain, after the U.S. Department of Agriculture raised its outlook for domestic corn supplies […]

By Rod Nickel

U.S. grains: Corn, soy drop from multi-week highs on profit-taking

Dec. 7, 2015 at 5:36 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybean futures fell on Monday for the first time in six sessions and corn dropped after two sessions of gains on profit-taking and as traders took positions ahead of a government crop report due later this week. Wheat futures closed lower as earlier technical buying […]

By Karl Plume