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U.S. livestock: CME live cattle surge with cash prices

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Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures closed higher on Tuesday, following stronger-than-expected cash prices as wintry weather takes aim at the southern U.S. Plains, traders said. Spot December ended 2.2 cents/lb. higher at 125.6 cents, and February was 1.775 cents higher at 131.8 cents (all figures US$). On Tuesday, a small […] Read more
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Beef Cattle, Livestock, Markets

Klassen: Feeder cattle market grinds lower

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Western Canadian feeder cattle prices ended the year on a soft tone, trading $5-$10 below week-ago levels; fleshier unweaned calves were down $10 to $15 because adverse weather plagued much of the Prairie region. Cattle buyers were busy on the phone, but receiving no orders. Feedlots appear to be content with their current inventory levels […] Read more
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Beef Cattle, Cow-Calf, Features

A single squirt to manage pain

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People might take an analgesic or a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug, such as aspirin or ibuprofen, to help manage pain, fever or inflammation associated with all sorts of conditions. Now a new Canadian company, Solvet, offers producers the same convenient option for treating cattle. Meloxicam Oral Suspension is Canada’s first long-acting oral pain medication for cattle […] Read more
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Livestock, Markets, Reuters

U.S. livestock: CME live, feeder cattle extend rally

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Chicago | Reuters –– Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures on Monday ended sharply higher, with the February contract up the expanded 4.5-cent/lb. price limit, on more short-covering following Friday’s bullish government cattle report, traders said. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Cattle on Feed report on Friday showed the number of cattle placed into U.S. […] Read more
At the Masterfeeds Supreme Champion competition at the RAWF in Toronto.
Livestock, Purely Purebred

Angus dominates at 2015 Royal Agricultural Winter Fair

Purely Purebred: News about you from the December 2015 issue of Canadian Cattlemen

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Taylor Isley is the Commercial Angus Identification and Performance Program (CAIPP) co-ordinator of the Canadian Angus Association. This is a one-year internship supported by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s Career Focus Program. Taylor will be working with breed development director, Kajal Devani, to get the CAIPP program up and running in 2016. Through CAIPP producers can […] Read more
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Livestock, Markets

Canada, Mexico granted COOL retaliation power

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Canada and Mexico may now impose retaliatory tariffs against U.S. goods at will over Washington’s country-of-origin labelling (COOL) rules — just in time for the process of erasing those rules to begin. U.S. President Barack Obama late Friday signed the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2016, an omnibus bill approving funding for various government agencies and […] Read more
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Livestock, Reuters, Weather

Wild bees seen dwindling in main U.S. crop regions

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Washington | Reuters — Wild bees, crucial pollinators for many crops, are on the decline in some of the main agricultural regions of the U.S., according to scientists who produced the first national map of bee populations and identified numerous trouble spots. The researchers on Monday cited 139 counties as especially worrisome, with wild bee […] Read more
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Livestock, Markets, Reuters

Mexico halts bid for COOL retaliation

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Mexico City | Reuters — Mexico has halted a bid to impose retaliatory trade measures on the U.S. over meat labeling rules after U.S. lawmakers repealed them this week, a Mexican government official said. Mexico had announced earlier this month it would start internal procedures to strip benefits from some U.S. agricultural and industrial imports, […] Read more

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