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U.S. livestock: Cash prices fuel higher CME live cattle futures

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures on Friday closed up 2.3 per cent, their biggest one-day gain in over a month, after packers paid more for livestock than expected, said traders. Buy stops, short-covering and fund buying accelerated futures advances, they said. December live cattle finished 2.625 cents/lb. higher at 118.9 […] Read more


Missing equipment found on a rural property southwest of Saskatoon in 2016 was valued at over $1.2 million. (Photo courtesy Saskatoon RCMP)

No prison for Saskatchewan rancher over stolen farm equipment

A western Saskatchewan rancher who pleaded guilty in August to charges over the discovery last year of missing tractors, balers and other farm equipment will serve time outside the prison system, Saskatoon media reported Friday. Iain Stables, now 40, was sentenced Friday in Provincial Court in Saskatoon to a conditional term of two years less […] Read more

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U.S. livestock: CME live cattle rebound

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures closed higher on Thursday after short-covering and fund buying pared Wednesday’s losses, said traders. Expectations for steady to weaker prices for slaughter-ready, or cash, cattle by Friday pulled futures from morning highs, they said. December live cattle finished up 0.625 cent/lb. at 116.275 cents, and […] Read more


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U.S. livestock: CME live cattle give back some Tuesday gains

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures closed lower on Wednesday after softer wholesale beef demand and this week’s expectations for steady-to-lower cash prices erased some of Tuesday’s rally, said traders. Technical selling further weighed on CME’s live cattle market, they said. December live cattle finished down 0.5 cent/lb. to 115.65 cents […] Read more

Agribition unveils new trade centre

Agribition unveils new trade centre

Seedstock: News Roundup from the December 2017 issue of Canadian Cattlemen

Canadian Western Agribition 2017 has gone into the books as the first event to be held in Regina’s new International Trade Centre. The 150,000-square-foot multi-purpose facility at Evraz Place replaces 14 aging barns and buildings built during the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s, as well as the 1919 Exhibition Stadium that came to life each year […] Read more


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U.S. livestock: CME live cattle halt eight-session skid

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures ended higher on Tuesday for the first session in the past nine, aided by short-covering and fund-buying, traders said. “I think that the major reason for the rally is the extreme oversold condition of the cattle futures,” said Joe Ocrant, president of Oak Investment Group. […] Read more

Will more cattle data really mean more cash?

Will more cattle data really mean more cash?

Three feedlot operators offer their take on what technology has to offer

Technology has advanced so quickly during the past decade that even young feedlot operators can reminisce about times when a long day’s work at the family feedyard involved boxes of index cards, drawers of file folders and buckets full of chop. The question of the day for a panel of three producers at the 2017 […] Read more