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Beef cattle, Hogs, Livestock, Markets

CME to shorten livestock futures electronic trading hours

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Chicago | Reuters — CME Group will scale back electronic trading hours for its livestock markets following customer feedback, the exchange announced on Friday. The markets affected are CME (Chicago Mercantile Exchange) lean hogs, live cattle and feeder cattle futures and options. The changes are effective Oct. 27 and follow responses to an exchange survey
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Beef cattle, Hogs, Livestock, Markets

U.S. livestock: CME live, feeder cattle repeat record highs

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Chicago | Reuters –– Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures on Thursday rose to a record high for a second consecutive session, supported in part by improved wholesale beef prices, traders said. October closed 0.375 cents per pound higher at 162.85 cents, and December up 0.525 cent to 166.425 cents (all figures US$). Thursday morning’s
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Hogs, Livestock, Local news

Cold, wet weather increases risk of PED virus

Vigilant biosecurity practices are important as seasons change

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Hog producers are warned to be particularly vigilant about biosecurity practices this fall because the porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDv) is more likely to survive in cold, wet weather. “We expect to see more cases in the fall,” said Mark Fynn, animal care specialist at the Manitoba Pork Council. Manitoba’s Chief Veterinary Officer (CVO) had
The site for a proposed federally inspected beef slaughter facility in St. Boniface was recently sold for half the Manitoba Cattle Enhancement Council’s asking price.  photo: shannon vanraes
Beef cattle, Hogs, Livestock, Local news

Sale of MCEC property raising questions

The provincial government says the MCEC failed because federal funding never materialized, but it isn’t releasing details of a recent property transaction

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It was supposed to be the site of a new, federally inspected cattle slaughter facility — one that would buoy a flagging industry in the wake of BSE. But now Manitoba’s opposition Tories say a property at 663 Marion Street in Winnipeg has been sold for half its value as the Manitoba Cattle Enhancement Council
(Manitoba Co-operator file photo by Laura Rance)
Hogs, Livestock

PED strikes again in SE Manitoba

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Manitoba has now booked its fifth hog farm with cases of porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED). The provincial chief veterinary officer (CVO) on Tuesday confirmed the case in a nursery finisher barn in the province’s livestock-intensive southeast. While the CVO didn’t give the farm’s exact location, the property is outside a five-kilometre buffer zone around two
(Photo courtesy ARS/USDA)
Hogs, Livestock

PED confirmed in another SE Man. sow barn

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A second sow operation in Manitoba’s livestock-intensive southeast is confirmed to be the province’s fourth farm with porcine epidemic diarrhea. The provincial chief veterinary officer confirmed the latest case on Wednesday last week, following a confirmation at another sow barn in the same region on Sept. 19. Most of Canada’s 69 farms confirmed with PED
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Beef cattle, Hogs, Livestock, Markets

U.S. livestock: CME live cattle end higher, pare early losses

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Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures finished sharply higher on Monday, erasing early-session losses as they gained on short-covering and fund buying before the end of the quarter on Tuesday, traders and analysts said. October live cattle closed up 2.5 cents per pound at 160.95 cents, and December was 2.375 cents
Beef products at a Japanese market.
Beef cattle, Hogs, Markets, Opinion

Editorial: Customers, not competitors, come first

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Is there anyone out there who thinks it’s a good thing for Canadian agricultural representatives to join with their competition from other countries to criticize their best customers? The answer is almost certainly no, but on the other hand we didn’t hear any objections when the Canadian Pork Council did exactly that earlier this month.

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