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CME August 2023 live cattle with 20- and 50-day moving averages and October 2023 live cattle (black line). (Barchart)
Livestock, Markets, Reuters

U.S. livestock: CME cattle down off contract highs on profit-taking

Hogs also down off early strength

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Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures turned lower on Wednesday on a round of profit-taking after most months climbed to life-of-contract highs, with a seasonal downturn in beef prices adding to bearish sentiment, traders said. Most-active August live cattle futures settled down 1.95 cents at 176.875 cents/lb., retreating after rising to […] Read more
CME August 2023 lean hogs with 20- and 50-day moving averages and October 2023 lean hogs (black line). (Barchart)
Livestock, Markets, Reuters

U.S. livestock: CME hogs rally as pork prices rise

August live cattle touch new contract high

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Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange lean hog futures closed higher on Tuesday, bouncing after a three-session slide as wholesale pork prices rose and cash hog prices firmed, traders said, while tight cattle supplies sent futures to life-of-contract highs. CME August lean hogs settled up 3.4 cents at 97.575 cents/lb., and the October contract […] Read more
CME October 2023 live cattle with 20- and 100-day moving averages and August 2023 live cattle (dark red line). (Barchart)
Livestock, Markets, Reuters

U.S. livestock: CME cattle end higher on firm cash values

Hogs settle lower off recent highs

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Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures ended modestly higher on Monday on follow-though buying from Friday and carry-over strength from last week’s strong cash cattle market. Cash cattle traded late last week as high as $184-$185 per hundredweight (cwt) in northern feedlot areas, traders said, up from sales of around $178-$182 […] Read more
CME August 2023 live cattle with 20-, 50- and 100-day moving averages. (Barchart)
Livestock, Markets, Reuters

U.S. livestock: CME live cattle climb on firmer cash market

Hogs down on technical selling

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Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures rallied on Friday on tight fed cattle supplies and higher cash market sales in the central U.S. Plains and western Midwest, traders said. Beef packers were in need of cattle to fill near-term operations, including a large Saturday slaughter and a full week of production […] Read more
CME October 2023 live cattle with 20-, 50- and 100-day moving averages. (Barchart)
Livestock, Markets, Reuters

U.S. livestock: CME live cattle ease on weak cash market

Lean hog futures mostly higher

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Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures declined on Thursday as a weak tone to the cash market and worries about slowing beef demand weighed on prices, traders said. Livestock traders were monitoring cash market activity at Plains feedlots, where fed cattle were lightly bid at $178/cwt, below the bulk of cash […] Read more
CME August 2023 live cattle with 20-, 50- and 100-day moving averages. (Barchart)
Livestock, Markets, Reuters

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures turn lower

Current-year hog futures higher

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Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle and feeder cattle futures took a turn lower in resumed trading Wednesday while near-month hogs turned higher. Most-active August live cattle came back off the U.S. Independence Day break down for a second day off Friday’s three-week high, closing Wednesday at 174.95 cents/lb., down 1.875 cents from Monday (all figures […] Read more
Kate and John Anderson, Merritt, B.C.
Associations, Features

Rebuilding relationships between Indigenous and ranching communities in B.C.

The B.C. Cattlemen’s Association and First Nations communities are looking for common ground and ways to support Indigenous producers

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British Columbia is the epitome of “land” with all its different landscapes — the rolling hills that turn into snow-capped mountains, the rainforests in the south and boreal forests in the north, the salty beaches on the coast and prairie near the Alberta border. This land is important to so many of the people who […] Read more
CME August 2023 feeder cattle with 20-, 50- and 100-day moving averages. (Barchart)
Livestock, Markets, Reuters

U.S. livestock: CME feeder cattle firm on choppy corn trade

Live cattle, lean hogs mixed

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Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures eased and feeder cattle futures ticked up on Monday, as corn prices faced a choppy trading day at the start of this holiday-shortened week, traders said. Meanwhile, the hog market ended the day mixed, with nearby contracts continuing to be bullish on growing buyer interest, […] Read more
CME October 2023 live cattle with 20-day moving average and August 2023 live cattle (dark red line). (Barchart)
Livestock, Markets, Reuters

U.S. livestock: CME cattle up as corn prices slide

Chicago lean hog futures end mixed

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Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures set a three-week high on Friday, lifted by a surge in feeder cattle futures as corn prices tumbled, traders said. Tightening U.S. cattle supplies and a resilient beef market lent support, along with a strong close for the month and quarter on Wall Street that […] Read more
The annual grilling season began in early May, which is the best beef demand period of the year.
Markets, Prime cuts

How will beef demand hold up?

Prime Cuts with Steve Kay

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The entire beef chain, from ranch to retail and restaurant, depends on consumers to keep paying up for beef. But seldom do all links in the chain make money at the same time. Right now in the U.S., cow-calf operators, cattle feeders and packers are all making decent profits. But retail margins on beef have […] Read more

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