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CME April 2022 lean hogs (candlesticks) with 20-, 50- and 100-day moving averages (pink, brown and dark red lines). (Barchart)
Livestock, Markets

U.S. livestock: Hog futures firm, cattle mixed

CME March feeder cattle lower

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Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange hog futures firmed on Wednesday, with concerns about processing margins seen limiting supplies in the coming months. “High feed costs and low prices there have production margins as poor as they’ve been in at least eight years,” brokerage StoneX said in a note to clients. “All of this
CME April 2022 lean hogs (candlesticks) with Bollinger bands (20,2) and CME lean hog index (black line). (Barchart)
Livestock, Markets

U.S. livestock: CME lean hogs climb as tight supplies persist

Cattle futures also firm on tighter supplies

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Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange lean hog futures climbed on Tuesday, supported by persistent tight supplies of market-ready hogs, analysts said. “We know numbers are getting tighter. We haven’t generated the expansion we needed to over the last six to nine months,” said Matthew Wiegand, Risk Management Consultant at FuturesOne. “The numbers are
Photo of an RCMP vehicle attending the blockade at Emerson, Man. dated Feb. 11, 2022. (Photo courtesy Manitoba RCMP)
Livestock, Markets

Manitoba border blockade expected to end Wednesday

'Resolution' reached, Mounties say

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Another protest blockade of a key Canada-U.S. trade corridor is expected to wrap up by Wednesday. Manitoba RCMP on Tuesday reported they “are now confident that a resolution has been reached” with protestors who, since Thursday, have blockaded Highway 75 leading to the border crossing at Emerson, Man., about 100 km south of Winnipeg. The
A customer dines at a Burger King outlet in Shanghai on June 27, 2005. (File photo: Reuters/Ming Ming)
Livestock, Markets

Tim Hortons, Burger King parent to hike prices

BK pulling Whopper off discount menu

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Reuters — Burger King parent Restaurant Brands International said on Tuesday that it stripped its most famous sandwich, the Whopper, from discount menus and will raise menu prices again this year as to offset higher costs. U.S.-listed shares of the company rose more than three per cent after it topped results estimates for the fourth
RCMP on Feb. 14, 2022 reported seizing the guns, ammunition and other items shown here during a search of three trailers "associated to" a group involved with the Coutts, Alta. border blockade. (An earlier version of this caption incorrectly quoted RCMP as saying the trailers were at the blockade.) (Photo courtesy Alberta RCMP)
Markets

Alberta border blockade expected to disperse Tuesday

Decision comes amid arrests, reported violence at blockade

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Amid reports of violence involving a farm tractor and trucks — and seizures of weapons — the protest blockade that shut Alberta’s busiest U.S. trade corridor is reported to be winding down starting Tuesday. Several media outlets on Monday quoted organizers of the blockade at the Canada-U.S. border crossing at Coutts, Alta. as saying they
CME April 2022 live cattle with Bollinger (20,2) bands. (Barchart)
Livestock, Markets

U.S. livestock: CME live cattle firm on strong beef demand

Hogs up on tighter supplies

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Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures firmed on Monday, supported by strong beef demand and slaughter, analysts said. “The next few months — late March, early April — slaughter-ready cattle are a little tighter,” said Austin Schroeder, commodity analyst at Brugler Marketing. “That might help to lend a little more support
A man and a child ride away from a protest site at Windsor, Ont. on Feb. 12, 2022. (Photo: Reuters/Carlos Osorio)
Markets

Windsor-Detroit trade corridor reopens after police clear protesters

Prairie premiers oppose use of Emergencies Act

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Windsor/Washington/Ottawa | Reuters — North America’s busiest trade link reopened for traffic late Sunday evening, ending a six-day blockade, the Canada Border Services Agency said, after Canadian police cleared the protesters fighting to end COVID-19 restrictions. Canadian police made several arrests on Sunday and cleared protesters and vehicles that occupied the Ambassador Bridge in Windsor,
A man reacts as protestors continue blocking access to the Ambassador Bridge at Windsor, Ont. on the evening of Feb. 11, 2022. (Photo: Reuters/Carlos Osorio)
Markets

Farm and agrifood groups press for clear border crossings

Injunction granted to clear Ambassador Bridge blockade

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Groups representing Canada’s farm and agrifood sectors want to see an “immediate” end to multiple border blockades thrown up in recent weeks by protestors in three provinces — while the auto sector has secured a court order that one blockade be taken down. The Canadian Federation of Agriculture, Canadian Agri-Food Trade Alliance, Canadian Cattlemen’s Association,

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