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Honeybees’ attraction to fungicide ‘unsettling’

By Emma Batha January 9, 2018

London | Thomson Reuters Foundation — Honeybees are attracted to a fungicide used in agriculture with “unsettling implications” for global food production, a U.S. scientist said on Tuesday. Tests carried out by a team from the University of Illinois showed bees preferred to collect sugar syrup laced with the fungicide chlorothalonil over sugar syrup alone. […] Read more

Blair and Stephanie McIntosh started their Simmental herd in 2003 with six cows, one heifer and a bull.

Beef Cattle, Features

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Building a seedstock business from scratch

By Debbie Furber January 9, 2018

Anyone who raises cattle knows the work is never done, it just changes with the seasons. Raising breeding stock takes that commitment to another level with registrations, shows, and sale preparations often colliding with the start of a new calving season. Despite all of the extras involved, Blair and Stephanie McIntosh knew from the get-go […] Read more

(Regis Lefebure photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

Livestock, Markets, Reuters

U.S. livestock: Cash prices propel CME hogs to one-year high

By Theopolis Waters, GFM Network News January 9, 2018

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange lean hogs on Monday reached their highest level in almost a year as packers competed for supplies during the first full week of production after the New Year’s holiday, said traders. The February contract led the charge after investors bought that trading month and simultaneously sold deferred contracts. […] Read more

Finishers, Livestock, Markets

Klassen: Fed cattle market leads feeders higher

By Jerry Klassen January 8, 2018

Alberta packers were buying fed cattle in the range of $280-$282 delivered on a dressed basis, which equates to $168-$171 on a live basis. Yearlings bought last summer are bringing back $150-$180 margin, which has reinforced buying enthusiasm. Western Canadian yearlings traded $3 to as much as $8 above week-ago levels; calves were relatively unchanged […] Read more

Beef Cattle, Comment

Comment: China opens some more

By Gren Winslow January 8, 2018

Prime Minister Trudeau’s five-day visit to China last month had a sense of déjà vu about it for cattle producers. The PM was there to keep alive the hope of a free trade agreement with the second-largest economy in the world, but came away with little more than his promise that Canada would continue to […] Read more

Livestock, Pasture, Reuters

U.S. judge ends case over standoff in Nevada land dispute

By John L. Smith January 8, 2018

Las Vegas | Reuters — A federal judge on Monday threw out a criminal case against a Nevada rancher and three other men over a 2014 militia standoff with federal agents, saying prosecutors had repeatedly withheld evidence from the defense. U.S. District Judge Gloria Navarro dismissed the case “with prejudice,” meaning that rancher Cliven Bundy, […] Read more

Beef Cattle, Hogs, Livestock, Markets, Reuters

U.S. livestock: CME cattle drop daily limit on lower cash market sales

By Karl Plume January 5, 2018

Chicago | Reuters – Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures fell sharply on Friday and hit daily trading limits on weaker cash market prices and easing concerns that frigid weather in feedlot areas could disrupt marketings. Fund selling, or “rolling,” of lead-month positions into deferred months ahead of similar moves early next week added pressure. […] Read more

Beef Cattle, Reuters

Brazil expects to be declared free of foot-and-mouth with vaccination

By Jake Spring January 5, 2018

Brazil | Reuters – Brazil expects the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) to declare the country free from foot-and-mouth disease with vaccinations at a meeting in May, according to a government statement on Friday. The declaration will bolster the country’s prospects to export meat to new markets, the statement said. The OIE already considers […] Read more

Forages, Livestock, Nutrition

Yikes — another crazy winter!

Nutrition with John McKinnon

By John McKinnon January 4, 2018

The winter of 2017-18 is shaping up to be full of unexpected challenges, particularly for those wintering cows in Western Canada. Drought, as well as recent wildfires, have caused many producers to scramble for a forage supply. As well, “old man winter” in all his wisdom has arrived early, with November temperatures in the minus […] Read more

Beef Cattle, Hogs, Livestock, Markets, Reuters

U.S. livestock: CME cattle dip on mild Plains outlook, East Coast snow

By Karl Plume January 4, 2018

Chicago | Reuters – Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures turned lower on Thursday in a technical selling and profit-taking setback and on concerns of a slowdown in beef demand in the storm-hit eastern United States, traders said. A winter storm continued its march up the U.S. East Coast on Thursday, with blizzard warnings from […] Read more

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Honeybees’ attraction to fungicide ‘unsettling’

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U.S. livestock: Cash prices propel CME hogs to one-year high

Klassen: Fed cattle market leads feeders higher

Comment: China opens some more

U.S. judge ends case over standoff in Nevada land dispute

U.S. livestock: CME cattle drop daily limit on lower cash market sales

Brazil expects to be declared free of foot-and-mouth with vaccination

Yikes — another crazy winter!

U.S. livestock: CME cattle dip on mild Plains outlook, East Coast snow

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