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CME April 2022 live cattle (candlesticks) with 20-, 50- and 100-day moving averages (pink, brown and black lines). (Barchart)
Livestock, Markets

U.S. livestock: CME live cattle retreat on profit-taking

Hog futures lower despite rising cutout

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Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures weakened on Friday as the market retreated from contract highs hit this week. Profit-taking weighed on futures prices, though the market remains supported by strong demand for cattle from meatpackers, traders said. Packers such as Tyson Foods and JBS slaughtered an estimated 120,000 cattle on
Storm conditions weigh on scheduled cattle auctions
Livestock Markets, Markets

Storm conditions weigh on scheduled cattle auctions

There are still cattle out there to come to market

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Although most of Manitoba’s cattle auctions had their weekly sales, blizzard conditions on Feb. 1 led to two auctions changing their plans, Tyler Slawinski of Gladstone Auction Mart said. Ashern Auction Mart cancelled its Feb. 1 sale, he said, and Gladstone was postponed to Feb. 2. “It’s the first time in all of my history
File photo of a view near the Canadian end of the Ambassador Bridge, which connects Windsor and Detroit and is considered one of North America’s busiest trade routes. (Steven_Kriemadis/iStock/Getty Images)
Markets

U.S. urges Canada to use federal powers to ease border protest disruption

Disruptions force automakers to reduce operations

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Windsor/Washington | Reuters — Canada should use federal powers to ease the growing economic disruption caused by the blockage of a vital U.S.-Canada trade route by protesters opposed to coronavirus mandates, U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration said on Thursday. The closure of the Ambassador Bridge, North America’s busiest international land border crossing and a vital
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Markets

China blocks Lithuanian beef, dairy, beer as Taiwan row grows

Canada seeks to join EU trade case against China

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Beijing/Vilnius | Reuters — China suspended imports of beef, dairy and beer from Lithuania this week, Lithuania’s veterinary control agency said on Thursday, amid a growing trade dispute over the Baltic nation’s relations with Taiwan. China’s General Administration of Customs had informed the country it was halting the exports due to “lack of documentation,” the
CME April 2022 live cattle (candlesticks) with Bollinger bands (20,2). (Barchart)
Livestock, Markets

U.S. livestock: CME live cattle lower, strong slaughter data supportive

Hogs also trade higher, end lower

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Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures ended lower despite finding new contract highs on Thursday, pressured by lower movement across the agricultural commodities late in the trading session, though tight cattle supplies underpin the market, traders said. “Demand in general still is in good shape. You’re going to have incrementally fewer
“MBP has been advocating since the onset of the program for recognition of some of these other extraordinary expenses that weren’t included in the feed assistance component... ” – Carson Callum, Manitoba Beef Producers.
Livestock, News

AgriRecovery program expands

Harvesting extra feed acres, hauling water, or opening up new areas for grazing are now up for aid funding

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Livestock producers hoping to tap AgriRecovery will now be able to claim things like land rentals, fencing or costs for hauling water or harvesting extra forage acres during last year’s drought. The province and federal government announced the expanded Livestock Feed and Transportation Drought Assistance program Feb. 2. Elk producers are now also able to
Apples-to-apples comparisons sustainability program goal
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Apples-to-apples comparisons sustainability program goal

CASI project aims to show how Canadian farmers stack up globally

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A program to make it easy to compare Canadian sustainability programs against international ones will kick off by comparing Canadian beef sustainability standards against an international carbon certification. “We want to avoid duplication,” said Mary Robinson, president of the Canadian Federation of Agriculture (CFA), which leads the project. “We all go through these different qualifying,
Protestors’ vehicles block the route leading from the Ambassador Bridge, linking Detroit and Windsor, on Feb. 8, 2022. (Photo: Reuters/Carlos Osorio)
Markets

More government action likely as border blockades hit trade

Manitoba's main crossing now also blocked

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Reuters — The shutdown of a vital U.S.-Canada trade route is knocking out automakers’ operations as the business impact from the two-week-old protests against Canada’s pandemic measures ramp up pressure on authorities to quell the demonstrations. The protests started as a “Freedom Convoy” occupying downtown Ottawa, opposing a vaccinate-or-quarantine mandate for cross-border truckers mirrored by
File photo of the Canada-U.S. border crossing connecting Sarnia, Ont. and Port Huron, Michigan. (Eyfoto/iStock/Getty Images)
Markets

Canada, U.S. fear economic damage from border crossing protest

Headway in one area, another protest elsewhere, minister says

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Windsor/Ottawa/Washington | Reuters — Truckers blocking U.S-Canada border crossings risk hurting the auto industry and agriculture, the White House said on Wednesday as Ottawa urged an end to the 13-day demonstration against coronavirus mandates. After nearly two years of pandemic measures in many countries, opposition has sprung up in different ways with copycat protests in

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