Cash prices lag behind cattle futures

Cash prices lag behind cattle futures

Buyers are paying a premium for healthy calves from proven producers

Sharp declines in the United States cattle futures market helped bring cattle prices down at auction sites across Manitoba for the week ended Dec. 7. Feeder steers weighing 700 pounds or more ranged in price from $210 to $348 per hundredweight during the week, compared to $225 to $378.50 one week earlier. The minimum price




Fran Wilkinson and Clarke Childs pose with one of their Highland cattle at Brandon’s Ag Ex in late October.

From the lochs to the lakes

Hardy Highland cattle find their place in the Interlake

The head of the animal posing between Manitoba cattle breeders Fran Wilkinson and Clarke Childs barely cleared chest height. Except for the Speckle Park exhibitors down the aisle at Brandon’s Ag Ex, the pair’s Highland cattle sported some of the event’s smallest full-grown animals outside the sheep pens. When it came to coats or horns, however, the Highlands were the


A Dutch nutrition company estimates more Brazilian cattle should pass through feedlots in 2024 than in the previous year.

Brazil feedlot cattle steady

Reuters – An estimated 7.03 million head of cattle will have been processed in 2023 after spending 90 days in Brazil’s feedlots, a survey of that nation’s cattle market by Dutch nutrition company DSM Firmenich showed Nov. 27. The projection was largely steady from 2022’s 7.048 million. Cattle finished after passing through feedlots represents around