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Klassen: Demand for shortkeep feeders drives complex higher

By Jerry Klassen January 10, 2017

Most auction barns were in holiday mode last week, which made the market hard to define. However, comments from local buyers suggest demand is building for shorter-term replacements due to healthy feedlot margins. Small groups were on offer with limited numbers available, and there was a wide range on similar weight classes across the Prairies. […] Read more

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Mars to buy animal hospital chain

By Canadian Cattlemen Staff January 10, 2017

Canadian veterinary chain Associate Veterinary Clinics (AVC) is set to become an arm of pet food giant Mars. Virginia-based Mars on Monday announced a US$9.1 billion, US$93 per share deal for all outstanding shares of VCA Inc., whose assets cover almost 800 animal hospitals with 60 diagnostic labs across North America. Those assets include Calgary-based […] Read more

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U.S. livestock: Cattle gain on bargain-buying

By Michael Hirtzer, GFM Network News January 9, 2017

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live and feeder cattle futures gained about one per cent on Monday, rebounding from earlier losses on support from a round of bargain buying, traders and analysts said. Feeders fell to a 3-1/2-week low before reversing higher, while live cattle tested Friday’s multiweek low and then turned higher […] Read more

Boehringer Ingelheim, whose headquarters at Ingelheim, Germany is shown here, has formally brought animal health rival Merial into its own animal health business effective Jan. 1. (Boehringer-Ingelheim.com)

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Animal pharma firm Merial formally joins Boehringer

By Canadian Cattlemen Staff January 9, 2017

Global pharma giants Sanofi and Boehringer Ingelheim have formally sealed their deal to merge Sanofi’s global animal health business, Merial, into Boehringer’s. The two companies last week announced their deal has “successfully closed in most markets” as of Jan. 1. Paris-based Sanofi will get Boehringer’s global consumer health care business plus 4.7 billion euros (C$6.6 […] Read more

A male mallard duck. (Alain Carpentier photo/Wikimedia Commons)

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USDA finds bird flu in Montana wild duck

By Tom Polansek January 9, 2017

Chicago | Reuters — The U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Monday it had detected a type of bird flu in a wild duck in central Montana that appeared to match one of the strains found during an outbreak of the disease in 2014 and 2015 that led to the deaths of millions of chickens. […] Read more

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U.S. livestock: CME live cattle futures mostly firmer

By Theopolis Waters, GFM Network News January 7, 2017

Chicago | Reuters — Most Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle contracts gained modestly on Friday after some investors sold February futures and bought deferred months prior to similar moves next week, said traders. Monday begins the first of five days in which funds that track the Standard + Poor’s Goldman Sachs Commodity Index sell, or […] Read more

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Grounds for a failed feedlot audit

Canadian feedlot animal care assessment — Part 7

By Debbie Furber January 6, 2017

Animal neglect generally brings to mind images of pets and farm animals lacking adequate feed, water and shelter. While these are serious acts of neglect, so too is trying too hard to keep failing animals alive. The Canadian Feedlot Animal Care Assessment Program places “failing to euthanize a distressed animal in a timely manner” at […] Read more

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No TB quarantines lifted over holidays

By Canadian Cattlemen Staff January 6, 2017

None of the 50 ranch properties still under federal quarantine for bovine tuberculosis in southeastern Alberta and southwestern Saskatchewan have been released in the past two weeks, officials reported Thursday. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency on Thursday resumed regular updates on its ongoing investigation into cases of bovine TB in the area. As of Thursday, […] Read more

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U.S. livestock: CME live cattle turn lower

By Theopolis Waters, GFM Network News January 5, 2017

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures on Thursday gave back some of Wednesday’s gains, pressured by profit-taking and technical selling, said traders. They said early-session futures buying subsided after investors digested this week’s cash prices. February live cattle closed 0.6 cent/lb. lower at 115.075 cents (all figures US$). April ended down […] Read more

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U.S. livestock: Fund buying rallies live cattle, lean hogs

By Theopolis Waters, GFM Network News January 4, 2017

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures on Wednesday reversed the prior day’s losses, with strength from technical buying and short-covering, said traders. February live cattle closed 0.8 cent/lb. higher at 115.675 cents (all figures US$). April ended up 0.775 cent at 114.725 cents and above the 10-day moving average of 114.547 […] Read more

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U.S. livestock: Hog futures hit contract highs on shock herd decline

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Klassen: Demand for shortkeep feeders drives complex higher

Mars to buy animal hospital chain

U.S. livestock: Cattle gain on bargain-buying

Animal pharma firm Merial formally joins Boehringer

USDA finds bird flu in Montana wild duck

U.S. livestock: CME live cattle futures mostly firmer

Grounds for a failed feedlot audit

No TB quarantines lifted over holidays

U.S. livestock: CME live cattle turn lower

U.S. livestock: Fund buying rallies live cattle, lean hogs

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