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Report shows slower pace for rising farmland values

By GFM Network News, Gfm Staff April 29, 2019

While lower-valued farmland more often showed a higher rate of increase, and price hikes varied from region to region, Canada’s farmland values on average have booked their slowest year-over-year rate of increase in almost a decade. That’s according to the annual Farmland Values Report from Farm Credit Canada (FCC), in which the federal ag lending

CME July 2019 lean hogs with 20-, 50- and 100-day moving averages. (Barchart)

Livestock, Markets

U.S. livestock: CME lean hogs drop on demand concerns, plentiful supplies

By GFM Network News, Karl Plume April 29, 2019

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. lean hog futures fell for a third straight session on Monday on large supplies of hogs and worries about cooling domestic and export demand for pork, traders said. Cash pork prices were firm, but a stretch of cold and wet weather around parts of the United States, including an unusual

CME June 2019 hogs with Bollinger (20,2) bands. (Barchart)

Livestock, Markets

U.S. livestock: CME lean hogs post third weekly slide

By GFM Network News, Julie Ingwersen April 26, 2019

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. lean hog futures declined on Friday, pressured by soft cash markets and long liquidation, traders said. The benchmark June lean hogs contract on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange recorded its third straight weekly decline after soaring to an April 5 contract high at 99.825 cents/lb. (all figures US$). The contract closed

Good prices have created optimism in the province’s cattle industry that at least one auction mart expects to carry into the fall.

Livestock Markets, Markets

Spring slowdown around the corner for auctions

The province’s markets have chewed through the annual calf run

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm April 26, 2019

Most cattle auctions in Manitoba will soon see fewer head coming in and one auction has moved to sales once every two weeks. “We’re getting things tidied up. A lot of the big strings of calves are gone now,” said Allan Munroe of the Killarney Auction Mart, which sold 275 cattle on April 15. At

CME June 2019 lean hogs with 20-, 50- and 100-day moving averages. (Barchart)

Livestock, Markets

U.S. livestock: CME lean hogs limit down on disappointing export sales

By GFM Network News, Julie Ingwersen April 25, 2019

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. lean hog futures plunged on Thursday, with the five most actively traded contracts settling down the daily three-cent-per-pound limit after weekly U.S. export data showed no new pork sales to China, traders said. Live cattle and feeder cattle futures on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange also declined, pressured by long liquidation

Livestock, Markets

U.S. livestock: CME live cattle futures down on long liquidation

By GFM Network News, Julie Ingwersen April 24, 2019

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. live cattle futures fell to a six-week low on Wednesday as lower cash beef prices and bearish technical signals prompted a round of long liquidation, traders said. Chicago Mercantile Exchange lean hog futures closed mixed, with nearby contracts turning higher and gaining against back months. Commodity funds hold net long

Pens full of healthy cows and calves are a welcoming sight for local cattle producers.

Beef cattle, Country Crossroads

Winter calving season has come to an end

Cattle producers must face cold weather extremes to see healthy calves

By Darrell Nesbitt April 24, 2019

Success for a cow-calf producer is related to the ability of the producer to wean one healthy calf per cow each year; a set of twins is additional dollars in the bank. When that calving season is done varies, but the objective of any operation is to try to keep the calving interval as short

CME June 2019 hogs with Bollinger (20,2) bands, a gauge of market volatility. (Barchart)

Livestock, Markets

U.S. livestock: CME lean hog futures fall on profit-taking

By GFM Network News, Tom Polansek April 23, 2019

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. hog futures sagged on profit-taking on Tuesday after a recent run-up to contract highs, traders said. Live cattle futures also slumped at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. The most actively traded June hogs contract has pulled back about 7.5 per cent after setting a contract high on April 5 on expectations

CME April 2020 live cattle with 20- and 50-day moving averages. (Barchart)

Livestock, Markets

Klassen: Feeder market remains volatile

By GFM Network News, Jerry Klassen April 23, 2019

Compared to last week, western Canadian feeder cattle markets traded $3-$5 on either side of unchanged. Many auction barns were closed last week and the ones holding sales had smaller numbers. Quality packages of yearlings were on the higher end of the range while smaller groups of fleshier replacements were discounted. Alberta feedlots were focusing

Beef cattle, Comment

Comment: How much water is needed to produce a pound of beef?

And just as importantly, what kind of water are we talking about?

By Beef Cattle Research Council April 22, 2019

An excerpt from a Beef Cattle Research Council blog post on the environmental impact of beef production. For the full text, visit beefresearch.ca. Yes, it takes water to produce beef, but in the 2.5 million years since our ancestors started eating meat, we haven’t lost a drop yet. Based on the most recent science and

Daily Network News

B.C. ostriches culled, CFIA confirms

U.S. livestock: Cattle, hogs end week on high note

U.S. grains: Soybeans bounce as Chinese demand assessed, wheat drops

Cow-calf

Report shows slower pace for rising farmland values

U.S. livestock: CME lean hogs drop on demand concerns, plentiful supplies

U.S. livestock: CME lean hogs post third weekly slide

Spring slowdown around the corner for auctions

U.S. livestock: CME lean hogs limit down on disappointing export sales

U.S. livestock: CME live cattle futures down on long liquidation

Winter calving season has come to an end

U.S. livestock: CME lean hog futures fall on profit-taking

Klassen: Feeder market remains volatile

Comment: How much water is needed to produce a pound of beef?

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