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Klassen: Favourable margins support feeder market

By GFM Network News, Jerry Klassen January 2, 2019

There were no sales last week with auction barns closed for the holiday season; therefore, we start the year looking forward at factors that will influence the feeder market over the next month. While the feeder market was quiet, feedlot operators were surprised with the U.S. fed cattle market jumping US$3-$4 from seven days earlier.

CME February 2019 live cattle with 100-day moving average. (Barchart)

Livestock, Markets

U.S. livestock: Cattle weaken on profit-taking, hogs firmer

By GFM Network News, Michael Hirtzer December 31, 2018

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. live cattle futures finished slightly lower on Monday as traders locked in profits in end-of-year position squaring, after prices earlier touched contract highs, traders said. Lean hog futures were mostly higher, buoyed by short-covering and position squaring on the final trading day of the month, quarter and year. Cattle futures

CME January 2019 feeder cattle with 50-day moving average. (Barchart)

Livestock, Markets

U.S. livestock: Cattle edge higher on technical buying, weather

By GFM Network News, Michael Hirtzer December 28, 2018

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures edged higher on Friday, buoyed by technical buying and as wintry weather in the U.S. Plains hampered transportation of animals to market, traders and analysts said. Heavy snowfall, rains and falling temperatures in much of the central U.S. stressed livestock, likely slowing weight gains in

Pacific Ocean sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies in degrees Celsius for the week centred on Dec. 19. (CPC.ncep.noaa.gov)

Crops, Weather

El Nino likely not responsible for warm, dry conditions

By GFM Network News, Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm December 27, 2018

CNS Canada — The above-normal temperatures Western Canada has generally experienced since the fall weren’t necessarily caused by an El Nino. Rather, to Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, the phenomenon that’s likely affected the weather was a ‘blob’ that formed off of the coast of British Columbia. “It’s a big warm pocket of ocean water and

CME February 2019 live cattle with 50-day moving average. (Barchart)

Livestock, Markets

U.S. livestock: Cattle jump to contract highs

By GFM Network News, Michael Hirtzer December 27, 2018

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. cattle futures climbed to life-of-contract highs on Thursday as a storm brought blizzard-like conditions to much of the Plains cattle belt, stoking expectations of higher prices for the animals in cash markets, traders said. Heavy snow could impede transportation of cattle to market in Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma and elsewhere while

Livestock, Markets

U.S. livestock: Cattle, hogs mostly higher on technical buying

By GFM Network News, Michael Hirtzer December 27, 2018

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. livestock futures were mostly higher on Wednesday, with cattle buoyed by expectations for gains in cash markets while hogs climbed on short covering after staying above Monday’s six-week lows, traders and analysts said. Prices for both cattle and hogs moved in relatively narrow ranges on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME)

Livestock, Markets

Klassen: Feeder market ends year on firm tone

By GFM Network News, Jerry Klassen December 24, 2018

Compared to last week, western Canadian feeder markets traded $3-$5 higher. Auction barns in the major feeding regions of Alberta had limited numbers on offer last week; therefore, major operations were sourcing feeders from farther distances. While most feedlots are carrying sufficient numbers, year-end buying was able set the market on a firm tone. April

CME February 2019 lean hogs with 50-day moving average. (Barchart)

Livestock, Markets

U.S. livestock: Hogs slump on technical selloff, cash worries

By GFM Network News, Michael Hirtzer December 24, 2018

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. lean hog futures declined as much as 1.4 per cent on Monday in technical selling and worries of weaker prices for hogs in cash markets, traders and analysts said. Cattle futures, meanwhile, were mostly higher on light chart-based buying in an abbreviated session at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange ahead of

This file photo shows a rack of blood samples being tested for bovine tuberculosis in New Zealand dairy cattle. (Lakeview_Images/iStock/Getty Images)

Beef cattle, Livestock

Bovine TB probe expands to Saskatchewan

By GFM Network News, Gfm Staff December 21, 2018

Updated, Dec. 24 — Some cattle in Saskatchewan are now under federally imposed movement controls as testing for bovine tuberculosis expands to 14 domestic herds in three provinces. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency announced Friday the tracing of a single case of bovine TB in a beef cow from a farm in British Columbia’s southern

Livestock Markets, Markets

Prices strong at Manitoba sales on second-cut cattle

Rising CME live cattle futures have run into resistance

By Phil Franz-Warkentin December 21, 2018

Manitoba cattle auction yards were still keeping busy during the second week of December, as ranchers cleaned out cattle and feedlots looked to fill some pen space. Roughly 5,600 head of cattle were sold in the province during the week ended Dec. 14, well below the 10,000 cattle that moved through the rings the previous

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Cow-calf

Klassen: Favourable margins support feeder market

U.S. livestock: Cattle weaken on profit-taking, hogs firmer

U.S. livestock: Cattle edge higher on technical buying, weather

El Nino likely not responsible for warm, dry conditions

U.S. livestock: Cattle jump to contract highs

U.S. livestock: Cattle, hogs mostly higher on technical buying

Klassen: Feeder market ends year on firm tone

U.S. livestock: Hogs slump on technical selloff, cash worries

Bovine TB probe expands to Saskatchewan

Prices strong at Manitoba sales on second-cut cattle

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