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The Judys run between 350 and 500 head of South Poll on their farm near Rucker, Missouri.
Beef Cattle, Grazing

Rotating to managed grazing

Rancher Greg Judy of Missouri explains why he switched from continuous to rotational grazing

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Greg Judy’s farm in Rucker, Missouri, sounds picturesque: mild winters, flat land broken by rolling hills, dotted by livestock. “It’s not row cropland,” Judy says, speaking at the Western Canadian Conference on Soil Health and Grazing last winter. “It’s just basically rolling hills, very thin topsoil. And so what we’re dealing with there, folks, is […] Read more
CME August 2023 feeder cattle with 20-, 50- and 100-day moving averages. (Barchart)
Livestock, Markets, Reuters

U.S. livestock: CME feeder cattle firm on choppy corn trade

Live cattle, lean hogs mixed

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Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures eased and feeder cattle futures ticked up on Monday, as corn prices faced a choppy trading day at the start of this holiday-shortened week, traders said. Meanwhile, the hog market ended the day mixed, with nearby contracts continuing to be bullish on growing buyer interest, […] Read more
CME October 2023 live cattle with 20-day moving average and August 2023 live cattle (dark red line). (Barchart)
Livestock, Markets, Reuters

U.S. livestock: CME cattle up as corn prices slide

Chicago lean hog futures end mixed

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Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures set a three-week high on Friday, lifted by a surge in feeder cattle futures as corn prices tumbled, traders said. Tightening U.S. cattle supplies and a resilient beef market lent support, along with a strong close for the month and quarter on Wall Street that […] Read more
Tuberculosis bacteria under an electron microscope. (Janice Haney Carr photo courtesy Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.))
Beef Cattle, Livestock

Bovine TB turns up in Saskatchewan herd

Two cases found after U.S. test flags Canadian heifer

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A heifer whose tissues tested positive for bovine tuberculosis (TB) at slaughter in the U.S. has been traced back to a Saskatchewan cattle herd which has now turned up two more cases of the disease. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency, in a report dated Wednesday, said it was notified Feb. 23 by the U.S. Department […] Read more
CME August 2023 lean hogs with 100-day moving average and October 2023 lean hogs (brown line). (Barchart)
Livestock, Markets, Reuters

U.S. livestock: CME nearby hog futures up ahead of herd data

Cattle up on bullish fundamentals

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Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange nearby lean hog futures ended higher on Thursday, as wholesale pork prices rose, cash hog prices firmed and traders awaited quarterly hog data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). Benchmark August hogs settled up 1.225 cents at 92.325 cents/lb. after reaching 93 cents, right at the contract’s […] Read more
CME August 2023 live cattle with 20-, 50- and 100-day moving averages. (Barchart)
Livestock, Markets, Reuters

U.S. livestock: Live cattle climb on firm cash markets

Chicago lean hogs end mixed

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Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle closed higher for a second session on Wednesday, lifted by strength in the cash market tied to tightening U.S. cattle supplies, traders said, while tumbling corn prices lifted feeder cattle futures. CME August live cattle futures settled up 1.375 cents at 173.875 cents/lb. (all figures US$). […] Read more
Nancy and Tyler Haraga.
Animal Health, Beef Cattle, Livestock, Scours

One Health strategies help farm family navigate outbreak

The Haraga family calls in the troops to deal with a nasty zoonotic disease

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This article was originally published at beefresearch.ca. It is reprinted here with the permission of the Beef Cattle Research Council. For Tyler and Nancy Haraga, March 10, 2018, will forever stand out in their minds. “It was forty below with four to five feet of snow,” says Tyler. It had been a brutal winter, with […] Read more
Oats. (Greg Berg photo)
Crops, Oats

Oat miller to steer clear of lambda-cy

Grain Millers bans oats treated with insecticide product

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The federal government’s decision to ban the use of lambda-cyhalothrin insecticides on any crops destined for feed use has now led at least one Canadian miller to prohibit any deliveries of oats treated with the chemical. Oregon-based processor Grain Millers, whose Canadian operations include its oat mill at Yorkton, Sask., said in a memo Tuesday […] Read more
CME October 2023 live cattle with 20-, 50- and 100-day moving averages. (Barchart)
Livestock, Markets, Reuters

U.S. livestock: Live cattle end higher, lean hogs mixed

Wholesale beef prices seen softening

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Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures rose on Tuesday, rallying after a two-session slide as corn prices dropped and feeder cattle surged, but softening wholesale beef prices hung over the market, traders said. Benchmark CME August live cattle futures settled up 1.9 cents, at 172.5 cents/lb. (all figures US$). October futures […] Read more
CME August 2023 live cattle with 20- and 100-day moving averages and October 2023 live cattle (black line). (Barchart)
Livestock, Markets, Reuters

U.S. livestock: Live cattle weak on large May placements

Slowing beef demand also a factor

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Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures ended flat to lower on Monday on larger-than-expected feedlot placements in May and expectations for slower demand for beef for outdoor grilling following the U.S. Independence Day holiday. Sharply higher feed corn prices early in Monday’s trading session weighed on the live and feeder cattle […] Read more

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