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U.S. livestock: CME live cattle limit up on fund buying

By Theopolis Waters February 1, 2018

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures on Thursday touched a three-month top, spurred by short-covering and fund buying, said traders. April closed up its three-cent-per-pound daily price limit (all figures US$). Investors bought that contract and simultaneously sold February. The limit will expand to 4.5 cents on Friday. February live cattle […] Read more

(Gloria Solano-Aguilar photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

Livestock, Markets, Reuters

U.S. livestock: Hogs jump on pork gains

By Michael Hirtzer, GFM Network News January 31, 2017

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange lean hog futures surged three per cent to a seven-month high on Tuesday as rising pork and cash hog prices triggered investment fund and chart-based futures buying, traders and analysts said. CME live and feeder cattle futures fell to multi-week lows, pressured by ample cattle supplies. The U.S. […] Read more

Beef Cattle, Livestock, Markets, Reuters

U.S. cattle herd growth to five-year high spells cheaper beef ahead

By Theopolis Waters January 29, 2016

Chicago | Reuters — Beef prices will keep trending lower, analysts said after the government’s semi-annual cattle inventory report on Friday showed the U.S. cattle herd as of Jan. 1 grew three per cent from a year ago, to a five-year high. Healthy pastures, more-affordable grain and record-high cattle prices a year ago encouraged ranchers […] Read more

Beef Cattle, Prime cuts

What’s with USDA cattle numbers?

By Steve Kay April 14, 2015

This was one of the main questions people were asking after USDA published its annual U.S. cattle inventory report at the end of January. Perhaps it was analysts’ way of trying to explain why they so underestimated by how much U.S. beef cow and heifer replacement numbers increased last year compared to 2013. If the […] Read more

Beef Cattle, Comment, Cow-Calf

When will cow-calf producers stop shrinking?

No sign of a turnaround yet

By Gren Winslow August 29, 2014

What will it take for cow-calf producers to start expanding the herd? That was the question that kept popping into my head as I read through the recently released 2013-14 results report of the Canadian Cattlemen Market Development Council. If that name doesn’t ring a bell, I’m not surprised. It isn’t well known outside of […] Read more

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U.S. livestock: CME live cattle limit up on fund buying

U.S. livestock: Hogs jump on pork gains

U.S. cattle herd growth to five-year high spells cheaper beef ahead

What’s with USDA cattle numbers?

When will cow-calf producers stop shrinking?

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