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

U.S. livestock: CME hog futures top two-week high

Chicago cattle futures ease

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange lean hog futures rallied to their highest price in more than two weeks on Monday, while live cattle and feeder cattle futures weakened. Hopes for increased domestic demand from summertime grilling and cookouts helped lift hog futures, analysts said. They added that surging grain and soybean futures raised



“You can’t obviously keep animals off all your pasture resources, but have a long-term plan, a five-year plan or something, where you rotate through and allow rest on those areas.” – Bart Lardner, University of Saskatchewan.

Facing the fallout: Give drought-stressed pastures time to recover

What should pasture management look like the year after a historic drought?

Seven months ago, producers around Joe Bouchard’s farm near Fisher Branch figured their pastures might be dead. “It was pretty grim here in July,” he said, recalling those dire days as the province, and Interlake in particular, were crippled by drought. “We started shipping older cows, cows that we knew were open. We pulled our


‘Hamburger season’ around the corner

‘Hamburger season’ around the corner

High prices for feed grain have pressured cattle values

Prices at the Ashern Auction mart were “fully steady” at their April 6 sale, according to manager Kirk Kiesman. He noted prices have remained as such for the last three to four weeks, seeing little prospect of changing any time soon. “We’re getting close to ‘hamburger season’ on the cows and bulls,” Kiesman said, which

CME June 2022 live cattle (candlesticks) with 20-, 50- and 100-day moving averages (pink, dark red and black lines). (Barchart)

U.S. livestock: CME cattle follow broad strength in commodities

June lean hog futures down on day

Chicago | Reuters — Live cattle futures on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange rose on Wednesday for a third straight session, buoyed by broad strength in commodities along with firming cash cattle prices, traders said. A blizzard crossing the northern Plains lent support, raising concern about stress on cattle in the Dakotas, but the storm was


CME June 2022 live cattle (candlesticks) with 20-, 50- and 100-day moving averages (pink, dark red and black lines). (Barchart)

U.S. livestock: CME cattle futures climb on firmer cash trade

Lean hogs up on technical buying

Chicago | Reuters — Live cattle futures on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange closed higher on Tuesday on firmer cash cattle prices compared to last week and broad strength in commodities, analysts said. CME June live cattle futures settled up 1.5 cents at 136.3 cents/lb. after touching 136.675 cents, the contract’s highest since April 1 (all



CME June 2022 lean hogs (candlesticks) with 20-day moving average (dark red line) and CME cash lean hog index (pink line). (Barchart)

U.S. livestock: CME lean hogs, live cattle end higher

May feeder cattle up, August down

Chicago | Reuters — Lean hog futures on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange inched higher on Monday as technical buying and worries about tightening U.S. hog supplies offset fears of slowing pork export demand and softening cash hog prices, traders said. CME benchmark June lean hogs settled up 0.45 cent at 115.025 cents/lb. (all figures US$).