After the recent rally, cattle buyers noted that price spreads between weight categories came back in line with traditional levels this week. Shorter-keep yearlings were steady to $4 weaker compared […] Read more
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Klassen: Feeder cattle market stabilizes
U.S. livestock: Bearish USDA report rattles CME live cattle
Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures on Friday finished sharply lower, hit by fund liquidation and the morning’s bearish U.S. Department of Agriculture Cattle on Feed […] Read more
U.S. livestock: Funds, bargain buying rally live cattle
Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle on Thursday reversed some of their recent losses, stirred by fund buying and bargain hunting as the U.S. Memorial Day holiday […] Read more
U.S. livestock: Live cattle retreat following initial cash prices
Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle contracts slumped on Wednesday, pulled down by technical selling and lower preliminary cash prices, said traders. June closed 0.95 cent/lb. lower […] Read more
U.S. livestock: Hogs gain, cattle ease on spread unwinding
Chicago | Reuters — U.S. lean hog futures rose to a three-month high on Tuesday while live cattle declined as some investors unwound hog-cattle spreads, traders and analysts said. Traders […] Read more
U.S. livestock: Cattle hit two-week high on cash discount, bear-spreading
Chicago | Reuters — U.S. live cattle futures extended gains to a nearly two-week high on Monday, lifted by bear-spreading and futures’ discount to trades in the cash steer market, […] Read more
Klassen: Feeder cattle market experiences mixed tone
Western Canadian feeder cattle markets were rather subdued this past week; average prices were unchanged from seven days earlier. However, the bloom has come off the rose as the extreme […] Read more
U.S. livestock: Hogs, cattle rise on technical buying
Chicago | Reuters — U.S. cattle and hog futures gained about one per cent on Friday, lifted by technical buying despite declines this week in wholesale prices for beef and […] Read more
U.S. livestock: Cattle rebound on technical buying, lower animal weights
Chicago | Reuters –– U.S. cattle futures climbed on Thursday, rising on technical buying and lower animal weights that suggested feedlots were aggressively marketing cattle to meet strong beef packer […] Read more
U.S. livestock: Hogs end mixed on profit-taking
Chicago | Reuters — U.S. lean hog futures jumped to the highest levels in three months on Wednesday, rising alongside wholesale pork prices before some hog contracts turned lower on […] Read more
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