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U.S. livestock: Lower cash price outlook pulls down CME live cattle

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Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures ended lower on Tuesday in anticipation of a seasonal bump in supplies that could pressure prices for market-ready or cash cattle, traders said. “It seemed like we delayed some bad news,” said EBOTTrading.com senior analyst John Kleist. Stronger-than-usual beef clearance leading up to Father’s Day
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Hogs, Livestock

USDA approves vaccine to help fight PEDv

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Chicago | Reuters — The U.S. Department of Agriculture has approved the first vaccine that can be sold directly to farmers to help fight a virus that has wiped out an estimated 10 per cent of U.S. pigs, USDA said Monday. Preliminary studies of the vaccine developed by Harrisvaccines “have been promising” in controlling porcine
Beef cattle, Hogs, Livestock, Markets

U.S. livestock: Lean hogs fall on profit-taking, technical selling

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Chicago | Reuters –– Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) hogs settled sharply lower on Monday pressured by technical-selling and profit-taking, traders said. Front-month July traded through both the 10-day and 20-day moving average. July also traded at a premium to the CME cash index of 114.75 cents per hundredweight (cwt), which also dragged on the market
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Beef cattle, Hogs, Livestock, Markets

U.S. livestock: Firm beef prices help drive CME live cattle higher

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Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle closed higher on Friday, a move fuelled partly by an uptick in wholesale beef prices, traders said. The morning’s wholesale choice beef price, or cutout, rose 64 cents per hundredweight (cwt) from Thursday to $231.53. Select cuts gained 29 cents to $223.89, the U.S. Department of
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Beef cattle, Hogs, Livestock, Markets

U.S. livestock: Strong cash prices lift CME live cattle

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Chicago | Reuters –– Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) live cattle futures closed sharply higher Thursday, pushed up by short-covering in response to higher-than-expected prices for slaughter-ready or cash cattle, traders said. Cash cattle in Texas and Kansas moved at $148 per hundredweight (cwt), up $3 from a week ago, according to feedlot sources (all figures
Beef cattle, Hogs, Livestock, Markets

U.S. livestock: Profit-taking halts CME feeder cattle rally

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Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange feeder cattle futures closed sharply lower on Wednesday, pressured by profit-taking that ended the market’s run of six straight sessions at new highs. “It doesn’t surprise me that futures would take a breather after going up so fast,” a trader said. Futures were also overpriced based on CME’s
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Beef cattle, Hogs, Livestock, Markets

U.S. livestock: CME feeder cattle touch new highs as supplies tighten

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Chicago | Reuters –– Chicago Mercantile Exchange feeder cattle futures on Tuesday hit a new high for a sixth straight session, driven by a shortage of calves for fattening after several years of drought in the U.S. hurt crops, traders said. However, sufficient grazing pastures now are allowing ranchers to nourish animals to heavier weight
field trampled by wild pigs
Hogs, News

U.S. turns to military gear in hunt for feral swine

Drones are being considered as another way to spot the herds of the destructive animals

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The U.S. Agriculture Department is known for its army of statisticians packing yardsticks and calculators to measure wheat and count soybeans. But the agency needs more firepower for another kind of rural reckoning and is gearing up with thermal imaging weapons. In its crosshairs are aggressive feral hogs that can weigh more than 400 lbs.
Hogs, Livestock

Hog shortage forces ‘non-production days’ at Maple Leaf

Pork producers say lifting anaerobic digester requirement
 would make building more barns affordable

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A shortage of hogs has forced Maple Leaf Foods to implement one “non-production” day a week at its Brandon processing plant. While the reasons for the shortage are complex, some in the industry say the solution is simple‚ more pigs. The Manitoba Pork Council says that means building more finisher barns, which hasn’t happened since

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