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Major Alberta cattle feeder set to shut feedlots

By GFM Network News, Rod Nickel September 21, 2016

Reuters — One of Canada’s biggest cattle feeding operations, Western Feedlots, said Wednesday it will close feeding operations after marketing the cattle it currently owns, due to poor market conditions. Closure of Western’s feeding operations, likely early in 2017 once its current cattle are sold, will make it more difficult for ranchers to find markets

Crops, Markets

Overcrowded feed market eats into profitability

By GFM Network News, Jade Markus August 30, 2016

CNS Canada — Alberta’s feed grain market is overcrowded with sellers, driving prices lower in a trend one market participant says is expected to stay for the near-term. “Farmers keep asking if there’s a lot of grain out there, and that’s not really the main reason markets are falling off,” said Jared Seitz of Agfinity

Livestock, Markets

Lower feed costs weigh on supply-managed goods

By Erin Debooy, GFM Network News June 10, 2016

CNS Canada –– Relatively soft feed grain prices over the past year mean producers of supply-managed commodities, such as milk and eggs, have also received lower prices for their products. Such is the interpretation of industry participants accounting for declines in the latest Farm Price Index data released by Statistics Canada. The livestock and animal

Crops, Markets

End of China’s corn stockpiling threatens global feed trade

By GFM Network News, Tom Polansek March 29, 2016

Chicago | Reuters — Grain traders worried on Tuesday about the risk for reduced demand from China after the government said it would scrap its corn stockpiling program at a time when global markets are awash with excess supplies. Traders said importers in China would likely reduce purchases of farm products used to feed livestock,

Beef cattle, Livestock, Markets

Klassen: Feeder cattle market tenacious

By GFM Network News, Jerry Klassen August 17, 2015

Western Canadian feeder cattle prices appeared to shrug off all negative economic news and divorce from the fed cattle complex this past week. Volumes were once again quite thin, characterized by varying quality. Feedlot operators were active on all fronts, especially in southern Alberta where the barley harvest is in full swing. Heavier yearlings on

Cereals, Crops, Grain Markets, News

Iran poised to buy feed grains

April 30, 2012

hamburg / london / reuters / Iran’s government is expected to start buying hundreds of thousands of tonnes of feed grains to help its farmers deal with a shortage of feed for livestock. Western sanctions have made it increasingly difficult for private-sector grain importers to arrange payments because they are frozen out of the global

Livestock

Price Spread Limiting DDGS Usage In Canada

By Phil Franz-Warkentin October 20, 2011

COMMODITY NEWS SERVICE CANADA Ample domestic feed grain supplies together with high prices for corn-based DDGS (dried distillers grains with solubles) from the U.S. are currently limiting usage of the ethanol byproduct in Canadian livestock rations, according to market participants. The price spread is too wide right now, said Ryan Slozka, senior commodity trader with

Cereals, Crops, Hogs, Livestock

High Cost Of Feed Barley In Manitoba Taking A Toll On Livestock Profits

By Daniel Winters October 20, 2011

Spring flooding and a hot, dry summer prevented many Manitoba farmers from getting a decent barley crop, and now livestock feeders are feeling the pinch from tighter supplies. Brent Swain, a grain buyer for FeedRite in Brandon, said he is offering $5.05 per bushel for top-grade feed barley, and $4.25 for high-vomitoxin samples. It s

Cereals, Grain Markets

Shrinking Oat Stocks May Add To Rising Food Costs

By Rod Nickel October 13, 2011

North American oat stocks look to fall to a near-record low next year, tightening milling supplies used in breakfast cereals such as Cheerios even as food companies struggle to contain input costs. Relatively high prices of commodities including corn, sugar and cocoa have for the past year left food companies facing the dilemma of whether

Cereals, Crops

Durum Displaces Barley In Feed Rations

By Phil Franz-Warkentin February 25, 2010

Feed barley values in the Lethbridge region have moved lower over the past few weeks, but are now stabilizing as farmer selling backs away. In an interview Feb. 19, Jim Beusekom, a Lethbridgebased feed grains broker with Market Place Commodities Ltd., said feed barley prices have stabilized at the bottom end of their trading range,

Daily Network News

U.S. livestock: Cattle, hog futures rise on first WASDE since September

U.S. export sales include only small soybean business to China

U.S. corn and soybean yields revised down by USDA

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