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Live cattle futures drag on local prices

Time is the insulator for prices in lighter-weight cattle, for now

By Marlo Glass March 13, 2020

Plummeting live cattle futures put pressure on local heavyweight cattle prices at Manitoba’s cattle auctions during the week ended March 6. Allan Munroe of Killarney Auction Mart noted “a large price slide” between 600- and 800-lb. cattle, as prices for lighter cattle remain strong. Last week, 700- to 800-lb. feeder cattle were priced between $180

Livestock Markets, Markets

Coronavirus ends hopes for positive year for markets

Top importer China among the hardest hit, dampening demand

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm March 6, 2020

As 2020 began there was a lot of positive sentiment, with hopes that the year was going to be a good one for the cattle industry, said Brian Perillat, manager and senior analyst with CanFax. However, that has been changing with the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak, as cattle auctions are not immune to what’s happening on

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Traffic continues strong at most Manitoba livestock auctions

Cattle markets are climbing back up from the COVID-19 market scare

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm February 28, 2020

Some but not all Manitoba auction houses booked increases in cattle headed to sale between Feb. 14 and 20. Gladstone Auction Mart was one of those reporting an increase, from 801 head on Feb. 11 to 1,114 on Feb. 18. Auctioneer Tyler Slawinski said Gladstone’s numbers are likely to hold up for now, as producers

Livestock Markets, Markets

Good movement, steady prices at livestock auctions

Futures are recovering from coronavirus reaction

By Phil Franz-Warkentin February 21, 2020

There was good movement through Manitoba’s cattle auction yards during the second week of February, with prices relatively steady for most classes of cattle. “The light cattle are still very strong,” said Allan Munroe, of the Killarney Auction Mart. However, “the big ones took a hit with the drop in the futures a few weeks

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Manitoba buyers show steady demand for lighter cattle

China’s coronavirus epidemic hasn’t yet landed on local cattle prices 

By Marlo Glass February 14, 2020

Mid-weight feeder cattle prices were steady from last week, according to Robin Hill, Heartland Livestock Auctions’ manager at Virden. At last week’s sale, prices for 700- to 800-lb. feeder cattle were between $180 and $197 per hundredweight. Prices for 600- to 700-lb. feeders were between $196 and $221/cwt as well. Prices during this week’s sale

Livestock Markets, Markets

Values steady at sales despite higher cattle volumes

Traffic was way up at Brandon, Grunthal, Killarney, Gladstone and Pipestone

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm February 7, 2020

Now fully into the new year, Manitoba’s livestock auction markets are expecting to see numbers of cattle increase in February and yet more toward spring. “It’s just getting started in the new year. The warm weather definitely helps,” said Harold Unrau of Grunthal Livestock Auction Mart. There were 759 feeder cattle and 170 slaughter cattle

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Chicago cattle futures pull some bids lower

Manitoba buyers are very sensitive on cattle weights at the moment 

By Phil Franz-Warkentin January 30, 2020

Activity was mixed at Manitoba’s cattle auction yards during the week ended Jan. 23, with Ag Days in Brandon likely limiting some of the action on the western side of the province as producers took in the show. Numbers in the west were expected to pick up the following week, while steady trade was anticipated

Livestock Markets, Markets

Cattle auctions’ prices steady, volumes strong

Manitoba’s cattle are about equally eastbound and westbound

By Marlo Glass January 23, 2020

Despite cold weather and icy highways, cattle markets across Manitoba were in full swing during the week ended Jan. 17. Tyler Slawinski, Gladstone Auction Mart’s auctioneer, said about 600 head showed up to the first auction of the year. “That’s about twice as many as I had expected,” he said. “That’s a good sign for

Tyson Foods is pinning its hopes on growth in the Chinese market after approval was granted to export product to that country.

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Tyson Foods cleared to ship poultry to China from all U.S. plants

The company expects pork and poultry shipments to grow in the wake of swine fever

By Tom Polansek January 14, 2020

Reuters – Tyson Foods has received approval from U.S. and Chinese authorities to export American poultry to China from all 36 of its U.S. processing plants and expects to begin taking orders early next year, a chief supply chain officer for the company said. U.S. chicken companies are eager to resume sales in China after

Livestock Markets, Markets

Firm cattle futures may lift local prices

Possible U.S. trade deals could serve as a boost for market sentiment

By Phil Franz-Warkentin January 7, 2020

Manitoba cattle auctions were quiet over the Christmas and New Year holidays, but firmness in U.S. futures markets could bode well for prices when activity resumes in the first sales of 2020. “I’m looking for a rally in the fats (butcher cattle) into about March,” said Ben DiCostanzo, senior analyst with Walsh Trading in Chicago.

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Livestock Markets

Live cattle futures drag on local prices

Coronavirus ends hopes for positive year for markets

Traffic continues strong at most Manitoba livestock auctions

Good movement, steady prices at livestock auctions

Manitoba buyers show steady demand for lighter cattle

Values steady at sales despite higher cattle volumes

Chicago cattle futures pull some bids lower

Cattle auctions’ prices steady, volumes strong

Tyson Foods cleared to ship poultry to China from all U.S. plants

Firm cattle futures may lift local prices

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