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CME February 2024 lean hogs with Bollinger bands (20,2). (Barchart)

U.S. livestock: CME lean hogs mixed after approaching four-week low

Chicago cattle futures end lower

By Tom Polansek, GFM Network News November 23, 2023

Chicago | Reuters — Lean hog futures hit their lowest level in about four weeks on Wednesday before ending mixed as traders adjusted positions before the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday. The market has dropped about eight per cent since rising on Nov. 7 to the highest price in more than a month, as ample U.S. supplies […] Read more

File photo of a desk in Canada’s Senate. (Dougall_Photography/iStock/Getty Images)

Crops, Machinery

Internal dispute over privilege, bullying allegations ties up C-234

New amendment to farm fuel bill now under debate

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News November 22, 2023

A proposed amendment, and a dispute over senatorial behaviour, further geared down progress Tuesday of a federal private member’s bill to carve out a carbon tax exemption for grain drying and heating of barns and greenhouses. Bill C-234, which passed the House of Commons in late March, remained on the Senate’s order paper for debate […] Read more

General, Weather

Prairie Forecast: Winter temperatures try to move in

Issued Nov. 22, covering Nov. 22-29

By Daniel Bezte, GFM Network News November 22, 2023

There is a large, deep area of low pressure spinning over the northern half of Hudson Bay along with a building area of high pressure over the Yukon. The counterclockwise rotation around the Hudson Bay low will create a north to northwesterly flow across the Prairies. This will allow the Yukon high to drop southward. […] Read more

CME February 2024 lean hogs with 20-, 50- and 100-day moving averages. (Barchart)

Livestock, Markets, Reuters

U.S. livestock: CME lean hogs near four-week low amid large supply

Cattle futures slip lower

By Tom Polansek, GFM Network News November 22, 2023

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange lean hog futures fell to their lowest price in nearly four weeks on Tuesday as large supplies hung over the market. Technical selling added pressure on prices as December hogs dropped below 70 cents/lb. for the first time since Nov. 1, analysts said (all figures US$). The contract […] Read more

CME January 2024 feeder cattle with 20-, 50- and 100-day moving averages. (Barchart)

Livestock, Markets, Reuters

U.S. livestock: Feeder cattle top one-week high

Traders digest U.S. cattle placements data; December hogs lower

By Reuters, Tom Polansek, GFM Network News November 21, 2023

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. feeder cattle futures and deferred live cattle futures finished higher on Monday after the government reported placements in feedlots were lower than analysts expected last month. The U.S. Department of Agriculture, in monthly data issued after the close of trading on Friday, said producers placed 3.8 per cent more cattle […] Read more

CME February 2024 live cattle with 20-, 50- and 100-day moving averages. (Barchart)

Livestock, Markets, Reuters

U.S. livestock: CME cattle rise ahead of bullish data

December lean hogs lower

By Tom Polansek, GFM Network News November 18, 2023

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle and feeder cattle futures ended higher on Friday as livestock traders adjusted positions in the markets. After the close of trading, the U.S. Department of Agriculture issued monthly data that showed producers placed 3.8 per cent more cattle into feedlots in October than a year earlier, […] Read more

Markets, Reuters

U.S. livestock: CME cattle sag on weakness in equities, cash cattle market

Futures prices indicate that cash prices in the south may fall further

By Tom Polansek, GFM Network News November 16, 2023

Weakness in equities and the cash cattle market weighed on futures at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), brokers said. Futures markets rose the previous three days in a turnaround from multi-month lows reached last Friday.

Beef Cattle, Livestock, Machinery, Reuters

U.S. livestock: CME cattle futures extend gains, await U.S. data

Fund liquidation and technical selling seem exhausted after driving live cattle to Friday lows

By Reuters, Tom Polansek, GFM Network News November 15, 2023

U.S. cattle futures extended gains on Wednesday as traders adjusted positions after steep losses last week and ahead of monthly supply data due on Friday.

Markets, Reuters

U.S. livestock: Short-covering boosts CME cattle after recent decline

The U.S. hog market traded sideways on Tuesday

By Tom Polansek, GFM Network News November 14, 2023

Chicago | Reuters — Short-covering lifted Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle and feeder futures on Tuesday, analysts said, extending a recovery from springtime lows reached last week. The markets were due to rise after recent fund liquidation and technical selling left the market oversold, analysts said. “The main thing is some short-covering here,” said Austin […] Read more

General

Legislation allows Quebec’s UPA to rework funding formula

Bill 28 passes Quebec assembly

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News November 14, 2023

Quebec’s legislative assembly has passed a bill allowing the province’s overarching general farm organization, the Union des producteurs agricoles (UPA), to start the process toward a new funding model. Provincial Agriculture Minister Andre Lamontagne on Thursday announced the passage of Bill 28, which amends legislation governing organization of farming activities and the accreditation of UPA. […] Read more

U.S. grains: Soybeans, corn fall on harvest pressure

U.S. livestock: Hog futures slide in technical correction

National Day for Truth and Reconciliation: Acknowledging the past, seeking a better future

GFM Network News

U.S. grains: Soybeans, corn fall on harvest pressure

U.S. livestock: Hog futures slide in technical correction

National Day for Truth and Reconciliation: Acknowledging the past, seeking a better future

Pigs

U.S. livestock: CME lean hogs mixed after approaching four-week low

Internal dispute over privilege, bullying allegations ties up C-234

Prairie Forecast: Winter temperatures try to move in

U.S. livestock: CME lean hogs near four-week low amid large supply

U.S. livestock: Feeder cattle top one-week high

U.S. livestock: CME cattle rise ahead of bullish data

U.S. livestock: CME cattle sag on weakness in equities, cash cattle market

U.S. livestock: CME cattle futures extend gains, await U.S. data

U.S. livestock: Short-covering boosts CME cattle after recent decline

Legislation allows Quebec’s UPA to rework funding formula

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